An Evaluation of the Impact of Remote Collaboration Tools on Corporate Sustainability

This research aims to assess and analyse the impact on sustainability of collaborative video-conferencing ICT capabilities within a commercial setting for a large global organisation. A list objectives are: to audit the current operating model from an ICT perspective of the IT Architecture department, to investigate the extent and nature of use of ICT video-conferencing capabilities and to quantify the proportion of meetings undertaken using it, to provide a synopsis of current literature in the domain of greening by IT, specifically those contributions relating to the use of video-conferencing ICT capabilities, to critically evaluate the opportunities presented by video-conferencing ICT capabilities to contribute to more sustainable practices. Based on our findings, the effects of ICT equipment for video conferencing is as follows: (i) positive primary enabling impact of 15932.83 tCO2e through reduced travels, (ii) direct emissions due to the use of the ICT equipment is 26.47 tCO2e, (iii) calculated net enabling effect is a saving of 15,906.36 tCO2e.