Community Management and Organizations Business IT

Question: Describe about the Community Management and Organizations for Business IT. Answer: Introduction Sydney College of Business and IT (SCBIT) was founded by senior professionals in management, business, and IT sector. They had vast knowledge in teaching, learning, and management. They have the goal to provide students of Australia as well as international students at a price which they could afford. SCBIT caters students of all capability whether the student is a high ranked or failed to crack the entrance of the other universities by their unique pathway of degree linked program. Prepare to integrate sustainability into the planning and design stages of an ICT project Negotiation with SCBIT stakeholders In various aspects of the college improvement can be made with the use of technology. The field where the ICT can be integrated within the college can be the areas of getting over the barriers for effective teaching, filling gaps in students learning, and getting over the barrier of information management (Erstad, 2005). SCBIT can take the help of effective classroom to propagate its teachings better, so as to attain its goals. There are some teachers who lack the knowledge of the subjects they are teaching and have very less understanding of better practices in the classroom. All these could be covered by the setup of ICT programs such as Interaction through radio, or educational programs or animation broadcast programs. The college can take the help of the governments Education System through Management of Information to get computers installed within the SCBIT campus (Erstad, 2005). Evaluation of ICT projects Projects that takes the use of technology in the college which can be in the form of radio, mobile phones, video, or even computers. But the main goal behind selecting a project must be that it does strengthen the educational infrastructure of the college. Once the project is selected and established it can support a variety of activities. The infrastructure should be composed of networking and real hard working with computer and broadband facilities for every stream pursued in SCBIT (Lannon, 2015). Research and identify suitable technology According to research, there are mixed results about the impact of the internet and computer use, interactive radio, and the other specific tools which have shown their ability to increase the basic skills. The Equity and Fundamental Levels project has helped reduce the gap between urban and rural students in management skills. The INTALQ project helps the learners visualize the various IT projects as for instance observing the changes and building their understanding of the key concepts (Lannon, 2015). Power consumption data Energy Audit refers to AS/NZ 3598:2000, Level 1 consumption benchmark, Level 2 economic analysis, Level 3 preliminary assessment. The Agreed standard includes BS EN 16001:2009 Management of Energy systems, AS/NZ 3598:2000 or whichever latest version available, environment ISO 14001:2004 (Backlund and Thollander, 2015). Devise strategies for incorporating sustainability into an ICT project Determine implementation of short-term technology solutions The short term technology solutions include hardware which is energy sufficient, hibernation of LCD monitor, hard drive, and workstation, remote management of energy, multifunction devices, and the use of video conference technology. Before the setup, the detailed report should include improvements in energy efficiency, financial returns, and practices which save energy, a graphical representation of the energy use, the records of energy consumption, the cost of implementation and payback periods (Radu, 2016). Progress sustainable management principles It is very important that the networks and computer stay functional throughout the project running phase. All the repairing costs of the hardware are included within the vendor's warranty in the first year but services included in onsite maintenance and technical support makes sure that the technology is in notch condition in SCBIT (Radu, 2016). The maintenance agreements may vary along with procurement. There are many colleges in Australia whose computer projects are supplied by national representatives or multinational vendors, who would address the hardware maintenance by service agreements and two three years warranties. Regular review and improve key performance indicators (KPI) on sustainability performance The performance of institutions using ICT has improved. To review and improve the KPIs the sustainability plan should be regularly be reviewed and efforts should be made to improve them, the communication networks should be well established and new opportunities should be investigated (Ling and Peh, 2005). The plan should demonstrate that the college is getting to its goals and the all the other aspects that it earlier set forward. SCBIT should open new corridors to evaluate and integrate new and upcoming opportunities and thus allow the institution to grow (Ling and Peh, 2005). Innovative planning and design rules for environmental best practice Conservation and management of resource sustainably are important thus the plans should be designed in such a way that there is minimum environmental impact due to the campus, the staffs should be well trained and educated about environment awareness, and the choices and actions of the community be changed. Benchmarks should be set to monitor the impact on the environment. The observations are able to determine whether the environmental improvements plans are working and to what extent are its effects. The students and the teachers should be aware of the actions and choices which give additional signals to the environmental goals being achieved (Walliser et al., 2012). Analyze energy audit data Energy usage within the scope of the ICT project Hardware Cost URL Average power Server $300 www.geneic.com 49 watts idle Switch 24 Port TP-Link $100 www.digistars.com.au Idle 6 -7 watts Thin Client x 1 n/a Est. $30 www.baystore.com 10 watts Modem/router $150 www.routerworld.com.au 7 watts + 2 watts for dongle Printer $30 www.amazon.com.au Idle 10 -16 watts Monitor HP compact $35 www.amazon.com 20 watts (each) Thin Client x 1 Ultra Thin Y210 $75 www.ixpress.com 6 watts (each) TOTAL $720 117 watts (Server + 2 thin clients + 3 monitors+ printer) COST $0.86 per day (Fleiter, Schleich and Ravivanpong, 2012) Estimate the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the nominated project Equipment Avg. Energy Total proportion Yearly CO2 Emissions Desktop Equipment 48 Watts (2x Thin Clients + monitors) 38% n/a Collective Equipment 50 Watts (Server + Router + Switch) 52% n/a Lithography Equipment 12 Watts (1x printer) 10% n/a (Fleiter, Schleich and Ravivanpong, 2012) Evaluate the estimated CO2 emissions with comparable benchmarks Hardware Types Recommendation energy saving potential Price Payback Estimation Desktop Equipment New Equipment 50%+ $429 each 2 Collective Equipment New equipment. 20-50% $1500 1 Lithography Equipment New Equipment 30-50% $330+ 3 (Hondo, Sakai and Tanno, 2002) Recommendations A green printer is recommended for the college. The HDD servers should be replaced with SSD. The server MB should be replaced with quad-core RAM of 32 GB which has the capacity of 64+ thin clients. The old monitors should be replaced with new ones, more priority should be given on green printing and cloud services (Hondo, Sakai and Tanno, 2002). References Backlund, S. and Thollander, P. 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