Green Computing in Local Government: HOD App Report

This report delves into the realm of green computing within the context of a local government application, specifically focusing on the 'Help over Distance' (HOD) business. It initiates with an introduction to green computing, emphasizing its role in reducing environmental impact through energy efficiency and waste reduction. The report then discusses the characteristics and global significance of green computing, followed by an evaluation of the opportunities and challenges it presents to organizations. A core part of the report is dedicated to proposing solutions for reduction, reuse, and recycling of IT resources within the HOD app's framework. It also outlines the importance of a green business strategy and how the app contributes to it. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing key findings and recommendations for implementing sustainable IT practices within the local government setting.

Green computing in a Local
Government app- briefing document
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the characteristics and global significance of green computing.....................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Evaluate the organizational opportunities and challenges posed by green computing................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Overview of business, the app, the BIS solution(s) and performance.............................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
Explanation of theory used to justify the choices made for your proposed business information
solution and ways in which this theory was applied....................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Green computing can be defined as a way through which environment impact of a
technology can be reduced by using less energy, reducing wastage, and promoting sustainability.
This assignment will focus upon ways in which implementation of BIS app can help HOD in
achieving main green computing requirements. This assignment is based upon a business named
as HOD (Help over desk) in public sector operated by local government. They are focusing upon
expanding their overall business by acquiring a new business information system application in
an environment friendly manner or in order words way want to acquire and BIS application in
eco-friendly manner so that its negative impact upon environment can be reduced. It has become
important for HOD organization to identify green computing issues and ways in which BIS
solution can help in resolving Green computing issues and can operate in environment friendly
manner. this assignment will discuss characteristics and global significance of green computing,
opportunities and challenges posed by green computing, ways in which green computing
requirements can be fulfilled, and theories that will be used.
TASK 1
Discuss the characteristics and global significance of green computing.
The uses of IT are rapidly growing exponentially per years, it has been growing rapidly
which become consider as compulsory for business information system holder to pay more
attention towards consumption of IT resources. It come up with innovative idea and method for
minimising the energy consumption by using software or hardware approach. As per given
scenario, Local government operating in the public sector and its current business is HOD help
over Distance. This type of BIS help for business to achieve their desirable goal and objective.
Green computing is based on the new approach to manufacture as eco-friendly hardware devices,
components and other kind of innovative techniques (Ojo, Raman and Downe, 2019). These are
helping to save energy of software and implement best practice to support in the critical mission.
The characteristic of green computing means consider as innovations which mainly based on
the principles and sustainable development. By using this approach, local government enterprise
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can reuse all essential resources. Its primary goal is to reduce negative influence on the
government. The most important characteristics of green computing is to maintain green energy
through different technologies at multiple stages such as production, corporate and social
responsibilities. These are directly related to concept of green culture within business
environment.
The significance of green computing is addressed the problem or issue within resources that
can utilise to save IT offices, it was not just about saving energy but consider all kind of
resources such as consumables equipment’s. Green computing will be gained more importance
in term of energy saving and energy efficient within information technology. It would take a
positive action towards environmental, security as well as sustainable development. On the other
hand, Green computing help them business process in which change the existing IT system into
their modernization process. Through this way, it is developing and implementation of IT, green
technologies which affirmed value of green culture or environment.
TASK 2
Evaluate the organizational opportunities and challenges posed by green computing.
Green computing is considered as most important term, practice of sustainable computing
in which explaining the energy efficient computing. This type of innovation technology is
actually nothing but the concept deals with green aspects such as designing, manufacturing,
modelling and disposal (Pandey, Tomar and Rodriguez, 2020). Furthermore, it associated with
sub system like monitor, storage devices and other kind of networking communication
effectively as well as efficiently with minimum impact on the culture or environment.
Opportunities
The opportunities of Green computing in the organization is to use route data into another
information centre. Afterwards, it will be allocating the essential resources as possible to
minimise or reducing energy cost or price. Moreover, The innovation of virtualization,
abstractions are considered as equivalent aspects in green computing. Local government
enterprise can use as virtualization concept as one single powerful system. It may help in cooling
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the entire system while reducing the power supply chain. Whenever using as green computing
and treated as the important and valuable term to save power, money and time. Local
government business can use Green computing to gain more opportunities.
By using green innovation, it would help to increase awareness among the staff members
in workplace while engaged in Green IT movement. In this way, it has been generating as cost
effectiveness when enterprise can use one machine as server and other one as node which can
easily handle different task at single time. Local government business can find the most suitable
opportunities in term of centralization of IT infrastructure which can possible through green
computing (Praba and et.al., 2020). There is no doubt that green computing become consider as
wonderful term in context of modernizing information. it can do many thing from environmental
friendly within society to save energy and financial saving.
Challenges
Lack of Awareness
Lack of awareness related to the green computing, which is consider one of the biggest
obstacle in the implementation of Green IT within organization. There are only few people aware
about the emission of CO2 and role of higher expenditure in polluted environment. At certain
level, Green IT has never identified appropriate place of theme in the environment day (Pandey,
Tomar and Rodriguez, 2020). It means that even government is encouraging the other enterprises
for implementation of green computing. It seems that global environmental enterprise on the
issues such as sustainable product of IT, which may consider as serious challenge.
Cost Equipment’s
Cost is another biggest challenge or obstacle, which are mainly preventing the progress of
enterprise to all people who really want to adopt Green IT (Pratomo, Irawan and Risa, 2020).
The price or cost of green computing equipment’s are becoming so expensive in order to adopt
within organization. As comparison with traditional technology in comparison of manufacture
energy reducing IT devices.
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Reducing the efficiency
It is another biggest challenge that if hardware will be made more eco-friendly and the
same ways to use efficient as normal devices. Nowadays, it has been rapidly changing the
technology in related to speed, diligence, efficiency and versatility (Pandey, Tomar and
Rodriguez, 2020). But at certain level, green IT will affect on the condition or situation of
uncertainty. Therefore, it will lost some specifications in different ways.
TASK 3
B) Proposal to address reduction
According to the Help over Distance (HOD), minimising the reduction in environment
which can directly impact on the computing resources. By implementing IT green, it should
consider all kind of green devices and other peripheral devices frequently contain toxic materials
such as lead. Thus, it should never through old equipment’s in a landfill. If government can
operate a local business such as help over Distance in global marketplace. But it needs to be
identify all kind of green IT devices that can emits limited CO2. Thus, protecting the overall
business in context of green environment or culture (Sabili and Ignacio, 2020). Moreover, it has
been addressed the values and norms of behaviour related or directed on the perseveration and
enhancement of all computing resources. Green IT can use them to protect or secure the overall
computing resources while reducing the energy efficiency and save time or money.
Here, are few of different ways that computing technologies can harm environment or
culture but it proposed to the Green computing which help to them improve the overall
enterprise. Various kind of Green equipment’s are helping to reduce the environmental impact,
Also protecting or eliminating the caused by producing.
Furthermore, HOD enterprise can reduce the environment impact which can possible to
reduce e-waster by purchasing as IT green, sustainable new electronic devices (Sabili and
Ignacio, 2020). These are considered the most important aspects for analysing the current
environmental condition or situation of organization. Afterwards, it will be implementing the
suitable IT equipment’s to reduce the impact on the environmental condition.
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C) Proposals to address reuse
In the pursuit for faster computers, features on the computing devices which are
representing quality of electronic equipment’s. Thus, it can improve the overall performance of
enterprise in marketplace (Sharma, Mittal and Obaidat, 2020). It will be proposed to reduce,
reuse and recycle electronic waste items. Within green computing, It can define to address reuse
of various hardware by replacement of existing item instead of new one. HOD enterprise can
propose to focus on the reuse procedures that will help to construct new or modified assets. At
certain point. It will be reused the hardware devices in order to execute the different operation
and function. Knowledge is also considered as reused which reflecting on the different hardware
equipment and check the process of business operations in proper manner.
With rapidly increasing the demand of Green computing within HOD business for
reusing various computing hardware. The reuse of hardware assets in emerging the applications,
software or hardware system. Green computing based resources which comprises with hardware
interface for receiving and including as central processing unit (Susanto and et.al., 2020).
Moreover, it can determine as essential computing resources that will implement suitable action
to handle the overall business processes. Typically, it will be proposed to address the different
type of green IT equipment’s, storage devices which is always supports for reducing the cost or
time. Before running the program through Green computing technologies that can reuse as
source code and then disposition action for computing resources.
D) Proposals to address recycling
Recycling is based on the process or method of converting waste materials into another
ways. As per recycled the different processing and gain use desktop, hardware devices.
Basically, Green IT can include the different components such as screen, monitors, central
processors and other keyboards. Recycling is one of the important aspects to reduce the landfills,
conserve precious non-renewable resources. Furthermore, it will promote the environmental
health by disposing the waste materials (Sharma, Mittal and Obaidat, 2020). in order to create a
suitable environmental friendly environment. Basically, different hardware equipment’s are
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made of lead, mercury, silicon. These are type of materials made by plastic which make up
single components. Afterwards, it will propose to take long process while recycling the
resources, money.
Unwanted or obsolete hardware have to be gathered or collected from owner, computer
waste collection point when they are completely fill up to the recycling. Various kind of
hardware devices are becoming tested for possibility of reuse. Moreover, Disposal of
equipment’s in environmentally friendly and legal manners.
Help Over distant (HOD) enterprise have becoming old hardware, laptop and other kind
of computers. Sometimes, the old electronic items are filled with full of toxic materials such as
lead, cadmium that could major damage of it can stuck in a landfill (Pratomo, Irawan and Risa,
2020). In fact, e-waste that can only take up about 2%. Therefore, it would require to simply
replace, disposal of equipment’s, try to create an effective environmental friendly.
E) Explanation of business strategy and identifying that how application will contribute to
business strategy and their impact.
A business strategy is basically defined to the action and decision that enterprise takes to
reach its primary goal and objective. Basically, it can be identified what local government
enterprise needs to handle the overall business activities (Pratomo, Irawan and Risa, 2020).
Afterwards, it help to decision-making process and allocate necessary resources. As per analysis,
it has been identified the different kind of proposal in order to address reduction, reuse and
recycling related computing resources. These are contributed to the business strategies while
improving the social, economic as well as environmental impacts.
As per implementing the sustainable green IT equipment’s which may support for
reducing the emission of CO2, directly impact on the environment condition. Sometimes, Green
computing equipment’s, devices are helping to save energy, time and money. In this way, it is
becoming cost effectiveness in term of organizational environment (Pratomo, Irawan and Risa,
2020). On the other hand, using of IT green computing and its resources which may help for
economic and social condition. in order to generate importance of different computing resources
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within business environment. In this way, before establishing the new business such as HOD
(help over distant), requires to implement suitable approach to identify all necessary things. An
effective business strategy will provide the brief idea about the importance of Green computing
and help to manage coordination with different economic, social or environmental condition.
Overview of business, the app, the BIS solution(s) and performance
HOD (Help over desk) is a local business operated by Local government in public sector.
This business is thinking of bringing improvement within their overall business and business
performance by reducing their referral time, reducing unnecessary GP and A&E visits for
patients. In order to bring further improvement within business they are implementing Business
Information system. This BIS system will directly notify medical staff members if any patient
had an accident so that direct help can be sent to patient’s house, every person can track their
application or requires though app. If there is any kind of fault in technology then helpline
provides will be able to act accordingly.
TASK 4
Explanation of theory used to justify the choices made for your proposed business information
solution and ways in which this theory was applied.
There are various kinds of theories that can be used by HOD organization for accepting
BIS system application in such a manner that their main green computing requirements can be
fulfilled. But the main theory that was used by HOD organization for proposed business
information solution was Unified theory of acceptance . Today green computing has become a
priority for organizations to focus upon, most of the firms today are focusing upon becoming
environmentally responsible so in order to achieve green computing or environmentally
responsible requirements, many organizations are focusing upon bringing changes within their
business by adopting new and advance system or technology (Al-Emran, Mezhuyev and
Kamaludin, 2018).
Theory used to justify choices made in the above proposal of adopting or proposing
business information solution is Technology acceptance theory. It is information system theory
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that helps in identifying ways in which a technology can be accepted and used. This theory says
that when a user is presented with a new technology there are numerous factors that influences
their choices and influences their decision making of using or adopting that theory. There are
three main factors that can influence use and acceptance of a new technology that are: perceived
usefulness, perceived ease of use, behavioral intention to use (Rahimi and et.al., 2018). All of
these three methods are interdependent because of which final and actual system use can be
identified. Perceived usefulness of HOD business is that they think that adopting or accepting
Business information system as a solution can be helpful for their business and can help them to
grow as well as will help them to fulfil their main requirements of Green computing (Scherer,
Siddiq and Tondeur, 2019). Next factor is perceived ease of use that explains degree to which a
person believes that using a particular system will be free from efforts. HOD business think that
implementing business information system is an appropriate solution that can help them in
reducing their patient referral time, any kind of accident can be informed immediately, accessing
healthcare records, sharing relevant social care information and managing appropriate
emergency response can become much more easier.
Third is behavioral intention to use that focuses upon intention of people for using the
technology. HOD business wants to use this Business information system as a solution so that
they can not only fulfil their green computing requirements but can also help in bringing
improvement within their business activities that can further work as a support for them to
achieve their business growth and expansion goals and objectives. All of these three factors helps
in identifying that business information system can help HOD in reducing environment impact of
computing resource, can help them to reduce, reuse, and recycle computing resources in such a
manner that it can help organization in addressing All of their main green comparing
requirements.
This theory directly helped in proposing business information solution that can be useful
for HOD to achieve their business growth objectives. This model was applied to identify ways in
which BIS solution can be applied for their main business objectives. This theory was directly
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used and applied for identifying BIS solution for growth of business. Applicability of this theory
directly helped in identifying ways in which acquisition and deployment of Business information
system application can make it easy for people to access required records, improve resolve and
referral time, reduce computing resource wastage or reduce its negative impact on environment
(Granić and Marangunić, 2019). This theory further helped in evaluating ways in which e-
wastage can be minimized by applicability of BIS application, ways in which it can help in
extending life of hardware. Applicability of this theory further helped me in identifying ways in
which hardware or software equipment’s can be disposed in a legal and environment friendly
ways by developing business information system solution that can not only help them in
enhancing their overall business growth opportunities, bring improvement within business
operations so that they can not only make it easier for their business to access documents but can
also make it easier for them to track or trace applications in a proper manner (Granić and
Marangunić, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has concluded that Business information system plays important
role within organization use to manage or control themselves effectively and efficiently.
Typically, it has been summarised about the importance of green computing concept while using
BIS to include software, hardware, data and procedures.
in this report, it has been described about the different characteristics and global significance
of green computing which automatically improve overall business capabilities. Furthermore, it
has been identified the different organizational opportunities and challenges which are posed by
green computing. Analyzing that can address the green computing requirement relevant to the
reduction of business environment, recycling, reuse. However, it has been discussed about the
business strategy for analyzing the application that can contribute to improve social, economic
and environmental impacts. In this documentation, An effective business strategy has been
supported to implement innovative Green computing, which help them to increase overall
efficiency and performance of enterprise.
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