A Green IS taxonomy

As a specialisation within the field of Information Systems (IS), Green IS encapsulates the responsibility of IS researchers and practitioners towards environmentally sustainable development. There is a growing community of IS scholars who are accepting this responsibility and creating an emerging body of Green IS knowledge over a disparate range of topics. Drawing on the emerging Green IS literature, we propose the following set of 11 categories as a taxonomy of Green IS in an endeavour to stimulate efforts to determine the scope and content of the field.

• Creating, Managing and Using Information;

• Supporting and Transforming Human Enterprises;

• Decision Support for Environmentally Sustainable Development;

• Green Information Systems Development (ISD);

• Changing Attitudes and Behaviours;

• Resource Informatics;

• Meeting and Collaborating Virtually: Reducing the need to Travel;

• The Greening of IT;

• The Connection of Environmental Responsibility to Economic and Social Imperatives;

• Education: Including Green IS in the Curriculum;

• Research: Stimulating Innovative Green IS Research.