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Sustainability has become a main pillar for the development of our civilization. It is increasingly evident that achieving sustainable development is not only necessary to have a future, but also helps us create greater value by being more effective and efficient. This has led to more and more organizations implementing sustainable practices across different fields. One of these fields with the greatest impact and which is evolving the most is Information Technology (IT). Through what is known as Green IT, organizations are implementing measures to reduce the environmental impact of their IT, as well as using their IT to be more sustainable in other areas. However, organizations are conducting these Green IT implementations at their own discretion, due to the lack of guidelines, standards, or frameworks in this regard. With the objective of helping organizations, this chapter presents a framework that guides the way in which organizations should properly govern and manage Green IT. To this end, we have developed the Governance and Management Framework for Green IT (GMGIT), validating and refining it through different case studies at an international level, obtaining several versions through an iterative and incremental cycle. The results of this development show that the GMGIT is a very useful framework for organizations to implement, evaluate, and improve the governance and management of Green IT.
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This work is the result of a PhD cotutelle agreement between the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Bari “Aldo Moro.” It is also part of the Industrial PhD DI-17-09612, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; of the ECD project (PTQ-16-08504), funded by the “Torres Quevedo” Program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness; of the SOS project (SBPLY/17/180501/000364), funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the JCCM (Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha) and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund); of the “Digital Service Ecosystem” project (PON03PE_00136_1), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research; and of the “Auriga2020” project (T5LXK18), funded by the Apulia Region.
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Patón-Romero, J.D., Baldassarre, M.T., Rodríguez, M., Piattini, M. (2021). Governance and Management of Green IT. In: Calero, C., Moraga, M.Á., Piattini, M. (eds) Software Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_10
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