The Importance of Sustainability in the ICT Industry

THE IMPORTANCE OF
SUSTAINABILITY IN THE
ICT INDUSTRY:

AGENDA:
 INTRODUCTION
 IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINIBILITY IN ICT
 ICT EQUIPMENTS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
 ICT AND SUSTAINABILITY
 ICT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
 ETHICS RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ICT ROLES
 GOALS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
 CONCLUSION.

INTRODUCTION:
Sustainability is developing the needs of present generation without
making concessions for the future to meet the demands regarding
resources.
Sustainable ICT requires the involvement of business sectors,
multinational companies to make the environment they work in- free
of waste that might harm the environmental balance or excessive
degradation of resources.

IMPORTANCE OF
SUSTAINIBILITY IN ICT :
 IT Sector Sustainability Ranking: Setting up fewer but more efficient servers
to save energy. Substantial energy saving can be done by virtualizing the
servers which reduces the number of computers but the efficiency increases.
 Saving energy with the usage of Cloud Computing: Sharing storage with the
cloud enables smaller devices like mobile phones to store massive amount of
data which cuts the use of devices that are larger which in return can save
energy.
 Eco-Friendly Materials usage: Green IT believes in recycling of existing
materials because there is a great wastage of water and raw materials like toxic
metals while production.