The Analysis of Green University Resource Planning on Cloud Computing

Jarumon NookhongPh.D. Candidate

Prachyanun Nilsook, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Division of Information and Communication Technology for EducationKing Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

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• University Resource Planning is designed for resolving problems in universities, combining data, improving the quality and effectiveness of management, and leveling up the management.

• Based on the Enterprise Resource Planning concept, reconstructing the data for education in tertiary institutions will save resources and reduce the procedures during work. This will help in problems when processing university information and data effectively.

• The processes and operations in allocating resources in university will be reduced. The management and services provision for teachers and students will be enhanced.

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• The cloud computing plays a significant role in decreasing the environmental impacts of ICT in terms of digital access and usage.

• The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking 2014 is an international standard demonstrating the university’s efforts in terms of environmental sustainability management. The criteria of the ranking are conformed to the university policy which involves six aspects of evaluation

• Therefore, to conform the operation to the university’s policy, the author had conducted a research on the analysis of the green university resource planning on cloud computing in order to use the research results as the guideline for developing the future Green University Resource Planning on cloud computing.

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To analyze the green university resource planning on cloud computing

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This research is based on the documentary analysis in relation to the green university resource planning on cloud computing which is divided into two parts as follows.

•University Resource Planning

•Green University Policy

METHODOLOGY

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University Resource Planning is comprised of five modules as shown in the Table 1 as follows.

RESULTS

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Education Research Human Resource

Finance Administration

Hao, Fei and Jian (2010)

Zornada and Velkavrh (2005)

Ahmad, Othman and Mukhtar (2011)

Pollock and Cornford (2004)

Abdellatif (2014) Worley and Grabot (2005)

Mudaliar, Garde and Sharma (2009)

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According to Table 1, University Resource Planning is consisted of five modules which are

1)Human Resources (for example, registration history, signing up and working attendance),

2)Finance (for instance, income and expense calculation, withdrawal, financial statement processing),

3)Education (for example, student application acceptance, curriculum),

4)Administration (to illustrate, management at all levels), and5)Research (for example, research and publication).

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The Green University Policy is summarized as described in Table 2.

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Energy

Resources

Waste

Ambient/ Indoor Air

Landscaping

Transportation by

bus

Research

Achieve Corporate

Social Responsibility

Comply with

Regulations

Infrastructure

Jain et al. (2013) Geng et al (2013) Chai-Arayalert and Nakata (2011)

Velazquez et al. (2006) Helferty and Clarke (2009)

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According to Table 2, the green university policy is categorized based on the analysis into 10 Policy which are

1)Waste 2)Resources

3)Ambient/Indoor Air 4)Research 5)Energy

6)Landscaping 7)Transportation by Bus

8)Achieve Corporate Social Responsibility 9)Comply with Regulations

10) Infrastructure. Therefore, the analysis of the green university resource

planning on cloud computing is described in the following figure.

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Green University Resource Planning on Cloud Computing

Green University

1. Setting and Infrastructure2. Energy and Climate Change3. Waste4. Water5. Transportation6. Education

UI Green Metric World University Ranking 2014

1. Standardize2. Share3. Re-use4. Green behavior

Green Cloud Computing

Green University Resource Planning System on Cloud Computing

University Resource Planning

1. Human Resource2. Finance3. Education4. Administration5. Research

Figure 1: Diagram of the Analysis of the Green University Resource Planning on

Cloud Computing

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• According to Figure 1, the diagram of the analysis of the green university resource planning on cloud computing is

based on the documentary analysis on the University Resource Planning and the Green University Policy.

University Resource Planning consists of five modules which are 1) Human Resource 2) Finance 3) Education 4)

Administration and 5) Research.

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• The research shows that the literatures on both areas are conformed to UI GreenMetric World University Ranking 2014 criteria which assess the university in six aspects as

shown below.1. Setting and Infrastructure

2. Energy and Climate Change 3. Waste 4. Water

5. Transportation 6. Education

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• Based on the analysis, Cloud Computing is used for processing the allocation of resources in the network. Cloud

Computing plays an important role in the environmental impacts of ICT affecting the digital access and utilization. If the users are educated about data access via Cloud properly,

the behaviors of users will be improved to be more environmental-friendly. To do so, there are some principles needed to be adopted. 1. Standardize 2. Share 3. Reuse and

4. Green Behavior

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• The analysis of the green university resource planning on cloud computing based on the documentary analysis shows that the Enterprise Resource Planning related to specific tasks of each university consists of five modules

• For the modules under the University Resource Planning, they are conformed to the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking criteria. The research results from the documentary analysis on the Green University Policy suggests that there are ten related policy

• Similar to the University Resource Planning, they are conformed to the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking 2014 criteria which have six evaluation

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