PhD research in Green IT and Sustainability
By Abdulaziz Albahlal
This is a presentation for Green IT and Sustainability that will cover the main idea about this topic and why it is very important as a PhD candidate with Tomayess,
There in no such thing as ‘Away’, when we throw anything away it must go somewhere.
Annie Leonard
Who AM I ?
Masters of Computer Science Journey
Shifting my mind
Search about Green IT and Sustainability in GCC
Start my PhD
What am I doing in my research now?
Developing a new framework that helps developing countries to shift their technology to be sustainable, How?
- First, know in which level of knowledge about sustainability and Green IT these people they have
- What is the gap that required to be filled to apply the new sustainable technology to their businesses
- How we maintain the new platform after being developed.
I'm doing research using mix-method ( Qualitative and Quantitative)
Research Questions
Main Research Question: How can a Green IT Model meet the GCC countries requirements?
First Sub Research Question: What are the perspectives of various stakeholders in GCC countries concerning the Green IT model?
Second Sub Research Question: How can a Green IT model will be useful for IT departments in GCC countries?
Green IT model
As student, what you have to do?
Made a sustainable planning and design, for short and long term (think globally and do locally)
Think about the next generation, how they will live
Attend for different session that university offer to save the environment
This is very interesting and trending topic
As programmer, what you have to do ?
Electricity is main issue in the computing world, cause a lot of environmental damage
Upgrading is the solution, do not change devices
Use cloud solution and services (reduce the electricity and cost)
Make sure that your code has no limitless loop ( consume electricity and kill the CPU)
As we can see, sustainability is more efficient and less cost