Green IT and Sustainable Digital Governance: Balancing Digital Transformation With Ecological Stewardship

Title

Green IT and Sustainable Digital Governance: Balancing Digital Transformation With Ecological Stewardship

Creator

Nayak, Khushi; Johnson, Maria

Description

The chapter is concerned with the Green IT model- ethical environmental considerations are met with technology to reduce the environmental footprint of information systems. It is informed by such frameworks as COBIT, ITIL, ISO 14001, and ESG and dedicated to sustainable governance through virtualization, renewable integration, circular hardware, and responsible disposal. The IT operations will be more transparent, efficient, and real-time monitoring of the environment thanks to the new technologies of AI, IoT, and blockchain. It is proved using the case studies of Microsoft, Google, AWS and Dell in which global leaders are seeking to grow digitally and reduce carbon emissions and the circular economy. Despite this, the obstacles that organizations go through are very expensive costs of implementation, old infrastructure and policy fragmentation. Another observation made in the chapter is that effective implementation of Green IT should be accompanied with harmonised governance, policy incentives and organisational culture shift towards accountability. Copyright 2026, IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

Source

Green Governance of Digital Organizations;pp.319-355

Date

01-01-2026

Publisher

IGI Global Scientific Publishing

Coverage

Nayak K., Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Johnson M., Christ University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-833736738-5; 979-833736736-1; 979-833736737-8;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-6736-1.ch011

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