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Informatics underpins the realisation of the benefits and outcomes of Green IT. Measurement and measurement standards are core to the value of informatics. Standards will guide what data should be sourced, collected and analysed in order to feed meaningful reports and scorecards.

The deployment of an executive endorsed sustainability Scorecard with high level Green IT objectives and goals, will resonate throughout an organisation that sustainability is important and all employees can participate.

Key Objectives

Identifying, benchmarking and identifying how to measure the key sustainability outcomes
Indicating how these metrics should be used in business cases through to balanced scorecards
Detailing the typical technological \ architectural implications.

Current workstreams

Understand the application of Green IT standards to the local market and how sustainability focussed consultants performing audits use these standards within their assessment frameworks.

Completed workstreams

Identifying global sustainability and Green IT measurement standards and their relevance to the local market. This has involved the Qld Government Chief Procurement Office and their methodology for the selection of their Green IT hardware standards.

Future workstreams

Explore and analyse a series of local case studies. How these orgainsations have approached Green IT measurement and how they report the outcomes.

Key Contacts

Warrick Tan, QLD Informatics Lead, warrick.tan@sas.com, http://www.linkedin.com/pub/warrick-tan/8/557/742

Stephen Smith, NSW Informatics Lead, stephen@darbolara.com

Informatics Team Update May 2009

Workgroups - Informatics

Thursday, 25 June 2009 23:12

Informatics Team Lead Update...

There have been a number of developments and significant changes in this space. The team has conducted another exicting Focus Group meeting and invited another interesting guest presenter to open and participate in the meeting. The Qld group has been joined by Stephen Smith, who chairs the NSW Informatics Focus Group. Stephen coordinated his first Focus Group meeting to dovetail our meeting.
To date the groups performed a broad global sweep of Green IT standards and with many thanks to Greg Smyth from the QGCPO, we’ve gained an insight into how those standards have been interpreted and applied locally.

As we move into application and measurement, I invited a leader in the environmental advisory and assurance services Alan Dayeh, to provide a brief insight of how environmental standards support their services and the linkages to informatics. Alan alowed the team to explore what’s involved in the assurance and audit processes.

Link to Alan's presentation http://www.slideshare.net/wtan/net-balance-presentation-queensland-greenit-informatics-group

Stay green

Warrick

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/warrick-tan/8/557/742

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Informatics Dashboards

How are people using GreenIT to measure and monitor thier sustainability inituitiatives. There are many excellent examples when people have implemented a 'Green' dashboard to facilitate this.

A building footprint Eco-Dashboard...

BuildingDashboard