The IEEE IT Professional magazine has called for Australians to contribute papers on Green IT, to be published in early 2011.

• Key environmental impacts arising from IT
• Ways to make IT environmentally sound
• Server and application virtualization
• Green computing and green data centers
• Environmentally friendly IT asset disposal
• Assessments of the effectiveness of green IT initiatives
• Environmentally friendly total life-cycle management of IT
• Using IT to support environmental initiatives through modeling, simulation, and decision support tools
• Innovative ways of creating green awareness using IT
• Green standards and regulations
• Governments' roles in fostering and enforcing green IT initiatives
• Users' and IT industry's attitude toward green IT
• Green strategies, policies, and procedures
• Benefits of, and barriers to, adopting greener IT practices

Full paper guidelines can be found on the IEEE IT Professional website.

For further information contact:

San Murugesan, University of Western Sydney & BRITE Professional Services, Australia, san1@internode.net