The Need for a Green ICT Reference Framework
Software Engineering
2026-04-13 v1 Computers and Society
Abstract
The sustainability impacts of ICT systems are difficult to assess and govern due to structural complexity, fragmented measurement practices, and unclear responsibilities across system layers. We argue that these challenges cannot be addressed solely by metrics and motivate the need for a shared Green ICT reference framework that integrates sustainability across multiple perspectives and domains, lifecycle phases, and governance contexts. We present an initial framework developed within the Informatics Europe Green ICT Working Group as a first step towards a comprehensive reference framework.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.09307,
title = {The Need for a Green ICT Reference Framework},
author = {Marco Aiello and Mina Alipour and Antonio Brogi and Rafael Capilla and Lidia Fuentes and Ilche Georgievski and Gabriele Gianini and Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam and Monica Vitali and Sebastian Werner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09307},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in ICSA-C 2026, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion Proceedings