Green ICT for Sustainable Development: A Higher Education Perspective

Sustainable development challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to reform their courses and life on campus. ICT professionals and students who are future leaders of the nation are progressively exposed to thinking of sustainability. This paper presents evolution of Green ICT and discusses the barriers in implementation of Green ICT at higher education institutions based on survey conducted in India. An extensive literature review pertaining to Green ICT and sustainable development was carried out and 10 barriers were summarized. Using SPSS tool and Wilcoxon Test, the most important barrier for successful implementation of Green ICT at higher education has been discovered. The survey revealed that lack of motivation and rational for adopting green polices among the implementers is truly hurdle in implementation of Green or sustainable ICT. In nutshell, the paper assists the policy maker in designing green strategies and polices based on barriers.