BANGALORE, INDIA: NASSCOM, the premier trade body and ‘voice’ of the Indian IT-BPO industry, shared an update on its Green IT Initiative.

The NASSCOM Green IT Committee’s three working groups on ‘Green Infrastructure’, ‘Policy & Regulatory Framework ‘and ‘Green Warriors’ identified best practices in these areas and are expected to finalise a detailed action plan by March 2009 for the industry.

The initiative would be presided over by Ganesh Natarajan, chairman NASSCOM, as chairperson and, Laura Ipsen, senior vice president, Global Policy and Government Affairs, Cisco Systems, Inc, as co-chairperson. The working groups have representation from IT industry firms, non-IT industry firms, government agencies and institutions specialising in environment sustainability.

The NASSCOM Green IT initiative focuses on the following areas:
· Make IT Green: Adoption by industry of green technologies and practices including green buildings, green computing infrastructure (energy efficient data centres, power efficient computers etc.) sharing infrastructure (shared data centres etc) and addressing issues like e-waste management.

· Make Green Happen Through IT: Deploy IT solutions which help firms & businesses become green including like cloud computing, video-conferencing, intelligent transport systems, web-conferencing, motion and heat detection sensors among others.

· Make Green Warriors: Encourage the over 2 million employees of IT-BPO industry to adopt a Green life-style and thereby become change agents to create a sustainable impact in the society around themselves through increasing awareness and more importantly changing behaviours.