Call for Papers

Advancing Green IT

Publication: IEEE IT Professional Magazine January 2013 Submission deadline: 1 July 2012


We are called upon to make our IT systems and work practices greener (environmentally friendly) and to harness the power of IT to address the environmental problems facing us. Green IT is about responding to this call. It is an environmental imperative, and, as many would advocate, our social responsibility.

Green IT is a topic of growing relevance and significance due to an increasing recognition of the harmful effects of climate change, new stringent environmental legislations, concerns about electronic waste disposal practices that damage our environment, and corporate image concerns that are pushing businesses and individuals to go green. We can make a difference by advancing green IT and embracing it in several areas of enterprise and personal activities.

The January/February 2013 issue of IT Professional will focus on Advancing Green IT. The magazine solicits papers covering a range of topics, including:


• Environmental impacts of IT and ways to make IT environmentally sound
• Green computing and green data centers
• Green data storage systems
• Green clouds
• Green software
• Green networking and communication
• Environmentally-friendly IT life-cycle management and asset disposal
• Green supply-chain management
• Green business process reengineering and management
• Using IT to support various environmental initiatives in business, industry and society— smart buildings and homes, smart grids, sustainable IT services, and IT-enabled smart communities
• Assessment of the effectiveness of green IT initiatives
• Green IT metrics, maturity models, standards, and regulations
• Green IT auditing
• Green IT strategies and policies
• Roadmapping the future of sustainable IT services
• Aligning the IT strategy with corporate sustainability strategy
• Fostering a sustainable IT organization
• User’s and industry’s attitude toward green IT
• Governments’ roles in fostering and enforcing green initiatives
• Innovative ways of creating green awareness using IT
• Benefits of, and barriers to, adopting greener IT practices
• Examples and case studies


Feature articles should be no longer than 4,200 words (with tables and figures each counting as 300 words) and have no more than 20 references. Illustrations are welcome.

For author guidelines, including sample articles see: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acitpro
Submit your article at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itpro-cs by 1 July 2012.

For further information, contact the guest editors:
San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services & Univ. of Western Sydney, Australia, san1@internode.net
G.R. Gangadharan, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India, geeyaar@gmail.com
Robert R. Harmon, Portland State University, USA, harmonr@pdx.edu
Nina Godbole, IBM India, ninagodbole@yahoo.com