Informatik: IT, innovation och hållbar utveckling

The course examines how ICT can be used as a tool that enables evaluation and innovation in how firms communicate and optimize environmental performance. The course further discusses sustainability from a Green IT perspective, where focus is on manufacturing, using and disposing of IT related products such as computers, servers, printers, monitors and network solutions. The end result of the course should be an increased understanding of how Green IT is a sustainability issue that companies and individuals need to relate to. After completion of course objectives the student will have the ability to validate total cost of ownership of the IT infrastructure, understand how companies can increase IT effectiveness and efficiency and thereby lower their carbon footprint, as well as have an ability to discuss IT’s role in any formal sustainability program.

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