Foundation Certification In Green IT

Plus GreenIT are are running the BCS/ISEB Foundation Certification In Green IT in most Australian state capitals monthly. This is an 18 hour classroom course run over three days, followed by a one hour examination. Available is the 10 page Syllabus, Reading List and the book "Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice: An ISEB Foundation Guide" by Mark O'Neill, April 2010.

The next course is 10 November in Sydney, then 17th in Melbourne, 24th Brisbane, December 1st Canberra and 8th Perth. They then start again in February 2011 with Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.

It should be noted that the BCS/ISEB course is aimed at IT service providers. It has a more limited scope and is much shorter than tertiary courses, such as the 12 week (about 120 hours) "Green Technology Strategies" I run for ACS and ANU.

It should also be noted that neither the BCS/ISEB course, nor my Green ICT one are sufficient for an Australian Qualifications Framework Certificate. This requirse the equivalent of six months of full time study (about 480 hours). That is about 20 times as much as the BCS/ISEB course. It is four times as much as my Green ICT course. Students of my course need to do three other courses for an ANU Graduate Certificate, or to become an IP3 Accredited, ACS Certified Professional.

Green IT Fundamentals Foundation Certification Training

Plus GreenIT Pty Limited are offering "Green IT Fundamentals Foundation Certification Training" in Australia, starting with Canberra in mid July. The three day course costs AU$2,800.00 and is in association with the British Computer Society (BCS).

Professional Green IT courses were introduced to Australia in 2009 by the Australian Computer Society (one semester $1500) and are now also offered by Execom (2 days $2,295), the Australian National University (one semester $2400), Box Hill TAFE (short course $360.01) and Open Universities Australia (one semester $1,500.00).

The ACS, ANU and OUA are offering online e-learning courses (which I designed and teach) available worldwide, whereas the others are face-to-face small group classes. ACS, ANU and, to some extent Box Hill TAFE, share the same course content from my book "Green Technology Strategies: Using computers and telecommunications to reduce carbon emissions" (2009).

Key Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, you will learn:

• What is Green IT
• What is Green IT Policy
• Benefits of Green IT Policy
• Goals, scope and key activities in Green IT Management
• Roles and responsibilities of process owners
• How to bridge the gap between IT and business

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for all levels of personnel within your IT Service Delivery Organisation and will form a key component of your Green IT Policy.

How this course delivers value?

• You will learn how to bridge the gap between IT and business.
• They synergy between your Service Management processes and Green IT
• Introduce the technology to support the Green IT Policy

Course fees includes refreshments, lunch, exam fees, course materials, mock exams ...

From: "Green IT Fundamentals Founcation Certification Training", Plus GreenIT Pty Limited, 2010

BCS follows ACS with Green IT Certification

The British Computer Society (BCS) has announced a "Foundation Certificate in Green IT " in conjunction with a commercial training company. The three-day course will cover regulations, legislation and policies, carbon energy accounting and how to create a green IT strategy. It also includes business benefit, end-to-end costing, emissions and energy efficiencies, procurement, lifecycle, and disposal planning, managing stakeholder relationships and behaviours. The course is followed by a one hour examination. There will be a three-month pilot in the UK, before international availability. This is the second such course announced by a national IT professional body. The pilot of the Australian Computer Society Green ICT Strategies course completed in May 2009, with the second cohort of students starting this week. The ACS course is already offered internationally, being a web based distance education course and is the equivalent of three weeks full time study. The Australian National University is offering a similar course "COMP7310: Green ICT Strategies" from July 2009.

Data Centre Energy Calculator Project

The British Computer Society (BCS) have announced work on an energy and cost simulation tool for data centres. This will use a mathematical model of energy use in data centres allowing changes to be simulated. The software will be Open Source and released in April 2009.

Green ICT at British Computer Society

Mike Bowern from the ACS Green ICT Group passed on a note about the BCS having a Green ICT group.

The British Computer Society established an Ethics Forum last year
(of which I am Manager) - and I thought you might be interested in
the types of things that we are involved in.

The following link goes straight to the Ethics Forum home page:
www.bcs.org/forums/ethics

We have just this week started an Ethics Blog - the first one
on 'Green IT': http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.419

Further information on 'green computing' issues (including a summary
of the Ethics Forum work): http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9369

Dr. Penny Duquenoy, FRSA, MBCS.