A Preliminary Study of Green IT Readiness in Indonesian Organizations

Abstract

As a follow-up to the previous study titled “IT Professionals Awareness: Green IT International Comparison Study” written in 2010 by Widjaja, Mariani and Imam, this paper aims to measure Green IT readiness among twenty organizations in Indonesia as an early indicator to understand the implementation of Green IT initiatives in Indonesia. The findings were then compared with results derived from similar studies of 143 organizations from Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Overall, the findings show that the surveyed organizations lacked adequate level of readiness of Green IT implementation. Current initiatives related to Green IT were driven by cost reduction. Finally recommendations are proposed to help organizations implement their Green IT initiatives

Keywords: Green IT, Sustainability, Indonesia