An Investigation on current situation of green ICT in University Technology Malaysia - Based on Stage of Growth and monitoring Green Technology Standardization criteria

Abstract

Information Technology is known as one of the most important elements in changes and the development of
the current world and consequences from it will have a direct impact on people. These changes will carry
words such as: Electronic commerce, Electronic Banking, Electronic city and even electronic government.
It’s been many years that Electronic development is practically used in many countries yielding large capital
returns and saving significant resources and capacities for those countries. Green ICT as one of the
emerging concepts born with the development of Information Technology. It would cover concepts such as
Carbon Dioxide Emission from computer hardware, green transportation and so. The current situation of
progress in green ICT in UTM has been investigated in this paper. There are various tools to gauge project
progress aspects. We used “Stage of growth” as our strategic tool to investigate the progress of green
technology establishment in a different area for UTM with concentration on Green ICT. Our evidences on
the current situation of UTM revealed that UTM has passed the first stage of growth successfully, whereas
UTM has been known as a pioneer in green Technology and technology development in Malaysia.
Therefore, it is expected to represent the better level of progress and effort to be green. Our findings show
that there are many reasons, which caused this failure. Among these reasons, we concentrated on
management role as a key player on this Deviation. Finally, we offer to recover the failure by a new
applicable methodology in the form of establishing a steering committee for Green ICT Implementation in
order to compensate current situation.