Aplicação da Tecnologia da Informação Verde no Centro de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.

Abstract

Technological advances, environmental issues and market requirements are factors that have led organizations to discuss their relationship with the environment and the impacts of technology use. From this perspective, the adoption of sustainable practices began to be observed in order to minimize the problems caused to the natural environment. The socalled Green Information Technology (Green IT) was created for this purpose, focusing part of its efforts on reducing the environmental impacts caused to the Planet. Following this logic, the present study aims to analyze whether the aspects inherent to the adoption of green IT, at the Center for Legal and Social Sciences (CCJS), at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), impact on environmental sustainability. For that, it was necessary to carry out a case study, with the application of a questionnaire with the team that works, directly or indirectly, in the management (28) and in the IT sector (1) of the CCJS/UFCG, which resulted in a total of 29 valid answers, and the analysis of institutional documents that deal with issues related to the environment. The questionnaire included questions related to the profile of respondents, as well as their perception of the adoption of green IT and its impact on environmental sustainability. The data show that although the CCJS/UFCG is concerned with acquiring more efficient equipment, outsourcing printers, videoconferencing and digitizing documents, it still needs to work with the issue of using recycled paper, programming computers to shut down outside of shifts of work, among others. Furthermore, it is noted that Environmental Guidance and Government Guidance exert a significant (pvalue < 0.05) and positive influence on the implementation of ITgreen Actions in the institution, and that this has a positive and significant influence ( pvalue < 0.01) on Environmental Sustainability.