The University of Wollongong Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative

IT has a role to play in the current debate on climate change. The current ‘green IT’ discourse on IT and climate change views IT in a negative light, as a polluter. What remains unrecognized is the critical role of IT as a source of solutions to the climate change problem. We live in a massive, inter-connected Planet Earth Supply Chain. IT provides a range of tools to model, manage and optimize this supply chain.

The University of Wollongong Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative (CCCI) seeks to seed a program of research that addresses the climate change problem with a range of computing technologies including (but not limited to): optimization technologies, supply chain management technologies, business process management/process improvement technologies, grid computing (e.g., utility grid) and virtualization technologies, ICT-enabled conferencing and collaboration technologies as well as ICT for knowledge sharing and network-centric advocacy.  In addition to driving these research projects, the CCCI aims to contribute thought leadership, build an industry-academia consortium, provide executive training and be the vibrant hub of a global network of scholars and practitioners that can truly make a difference.