Green IT – Information and Communications Technology for a Sustainable Future

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Our Green IT certification course is designed to prepare working professionals and university-level students to be the sustainability leaders of the future.

Our Green IT certification course will prepare you to become a sustainability leader of the future. We live in a networked world. In the coming years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will be the main force that shapes social, economic, and political life around the globe. Continuing innovation in ICT will change the buildings and cities we create, how we travel, how food, energy, and water are supplied to a growing population, how we develop communities, and how we use all the resources of the natural world.

Green IT Certification – Information and Communications Technology for a Sustainable Future is designed to prepare working professionals and university-level students to be the sustainability leaders of the future. Students are educated on the basics of sustainability and technology. They are taught practical tools for managing the rapidly growing eco-footprint of the ICT systems we use, and educated on how to use ICT as an enabling tool to drive sustainable development. In the course, Green IT is addressed as a central element of every activity of an Enterprise: buildings and workplace design, travel and transportation, facilities management, product design and supply chain, strategy and finance, human resources, purchasing, and IT operations.


The Green IT certification course is specifically designed to be useful to professionals and managers who do not directly manage ICT systems, as well as technologists. For Architects, Engineers, Facility Managers, and Sustainability professionals, the course illuminates new issues and opportunities they will encounter in their fields as the pace of ICT-driven change accelerates.

Students will be equipped with in-demand knowledge and skills that can be the foundation of a rewarding career.  They will learn how to harness the power of ICT innovation to enable eco-responsibility leadership throughout the enterprise.


Upon completion of this certification course, students will:

•      Have the theoretical foundation and practical tools essential to developing and executing enterprise green IT initiatives, from “Desktop to Data Center”

•      Learn to evaluate and demonstrate the linked financial and environmental life-cycle benefits that come from Eco-Efficiency and Eco-Innovation in IT

•      Understand the green aspects of systems design, procurement, operations, and end-of-life management.
Grading for the course is based on a combination of practical exercises and a final examination for the course. The course contains nine modules in three sections.

Enrolling in our Green IT certification training course is fast, easy and 100% secure.  Take your career to the next level – Enroll today!

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