Evaluating an ict service in automatic tuition fee payment for student to the environment using LCA method
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Life Cycle Analysis, energy, environmental impact, Information and Communication TechnologyAbstract
This paper presents a multi-criteria life-cycle assessment (LCA) of an ICT service. The service has been deployed and tested by HoChiMinh City University of Technology, Vietnam, from 2008. The study takes into account all of components in service, service infrastructure, service installation. The LCA results show that using the ICT service for Automatic Tuition Payment application has achieved environmental benefits in comparison to conventional tuition payment service. Multi-criteria assessment is used in this study to define the top contributors of the service. This definition could help the designer to focus on what component needs to be analyzed in detail and to be improved. In the energy point of view, the environmental impacts of infrastructure could be bypassed due to small number of students in the total customers of the bank. This case study also provides insight for design choices in ICT service for environmental impacts
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