Certification Model

The FFITS.ORG Certification & Labelling Program aligns to the global Green IT Framework originally developed by Connection Research.  The following describes the three labels available to organisations to promote their corporate social responsibility and environmental initiatives:

• Personal Computing
• Departmental Computing
• Printing and Consumables

The End User Computing Label showcases an organisations' commitment and action around areas such as implementing energy efficiency measures for desktop computing, reducing paper waste from printing, and optimising consumables consumption.

• Data Centre Equipment
• Data Centre Environmentals
• Networking and Communications
• Outsourcing and Cloud
• Software Architecture

Elements of this label include virtualising and/or clustering server infrastructure, storage use optimisation, Data Centre airflow management, implementation of energy efficiency techniques such as high efficiency power systems and thin client computing.

• Governance and Compliance
• Teleworking and Collaboration
• Business Process Management
• Business Applications
• Carbon Emissions Management

The ICT as a Low Carbon Enabler Label addresses organisations' attitudes and implementation of policies and standards.

This area also addresses innovation within the IT department, where IT promote their technology solutions to help the business holistically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through solutions such as teleworking and video conferencing.