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Greening ICT programme The Getting Greener Programme will allow JISC to deliver on its key strategic priority of enabling the greening of ICT in the Higher and Further Education sectors through organisational change and...

Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

Institutional Exemplars Programme The institutional exemplars programme is a £1.4 million programme to generate exemplar projects demonstrating change at the institutional level.

JISC Organisational Support Programme To harness the potential offered by ICT requires the consideration and understanding of a range of issues. These focus on the implications associated with using ICT rather than the technology...

Review of the Environmental and Organisational Implications of Cloud Computing in Higher and Further Education The aims of the proposed project are: To review the current evidence for the environmental costs and benefits of cloud computing; To review the implications of cloud computing for institutional...

Managing environmentally sustainable ICT in FE & HE (Suste-IT) This project will investigate the management of environmentally sustainable developments in ICT (and associated practices) that take a realistic and strategic approach to the adoption, inclusion and...

Low Carbon ICT The Low Carbon ICT project will reduce the University of Oxford’s carbon footprint that results from the operation of its ICT infrastructure. It is likely to reduce annual power use by a minimum of...

Sustainable ICT Service Provision (SISP) This project will investigate and implement energy saving strategies for ICT services using a combination of IT and estates based measures.

Deliberative User Approach in a Living Lab (DUALL) The DUALL project will develop a socio-technical, deliberative approach enabling users of a large-scale, public-sector building to understand the potential for ICT to reduce energy consumption. The...

Technology and Standards Watch (TechWatch) TechWatch anticipates developments in information and communication technologies that might have high impact on the core business of Further and Higher Education in five to ten years' time.

JISC Advance Advancing education, research and management through expertise, advice and inspiration in the use of technology.

JISC Procureweb JISC Procureweb is a Procurement Support service for the UK Higher and Further Education Sectors and Research Councils.

Podcast: Green ICT for Further and Higher Education MP3 (Duration 7:31) In this podcast Rebecca O’Brien from JISC talks with Peter James, Professor of Environmental Management at the University of Bradford and head of the JISC-funded SusteIT project,...

Podcast: New Build - Zeroing in on Carbon Footprints MP3 (Duration 6:16) In this podcast Kerry O’Neill from JISC talks with Ann Thunhurst, manager of JISC Regional Support Centre South East, about the “New Build - Zeroing in on Carbon Footprints” event...

Podcast 38 - How green is our ICT? MP3 (Duration: 11.42) With concern for the environment and fears about climate change never far from the headlines, our use of ICT is coming under increasing scrutiny. In this podcast for Inform Plus,...

Podcast: The Future is Green MP3 (Duration: 9.52) JISC is funding a number of projects on reducing the environmental impact of information and communications technology in institutions. Case studies are being complied on current...

Video: Greening ICT case study QuickTime (Duration: 8.05) Greening ICT case study from Queen Margaret University. JISC is launching a 3-year programme (2009 - 2011) of activity to support colleges and universities with their decision-making...

ECCILES Project Plan (PDF) PDF document Like all Universities, Bolton has experienced a 50% increase in energy bills over the last year and is anticipating an 100% increase in the coming year. Managing down energy usage is a business and...

RARE-IDC Project Plan (PDF) PDF document The University is a large and complex organisation comprising some 30 strategic business units and a number of subsidiary companies, with defined targets and activities, which contribute to the...

Making the move to green PDF document JISC Conference 09: The Climate Change Bill and draft statutory guidance provided by the Government will have a major impact on further and higher education institutions. A recent report by the...

Sustainable ICT Service Provision Project Plan PDF document The project aims to determine the sustainability of current University ICT services in terms of their energy consumption and CO2 emissions and to investigate and implement strategies by which the...

LC-ICT Project plan Word document The purpose of this project is to provide a practical exemplar of how an organisation can implement both the policies and the technologies to conserve energy used by the ICT infrastructure with the...