Green ICT, Communication, Networking, and Data Processing

The world is heading towards the information age where “data is the new gold” and with the increase in the amount of data, there is an overall increment in the resource utilization to manage, manipulate, store and transmit data. Due to the heavy demands of computing resources for the production and application of software and hardware, their disposal is an issue that leads to environmental degradation by causing environmental pollution and keep exhausting natural and energy resources. So, there’s a strong need to adopt the greener and sustainable methods/resources so as to reduce the overall environmental damage due to the above-mentioned factors. This chapter, provides the different tools and techniques that can be adopted for the greener cause and sustainability of the resources in the environment.