A Survey of Green-computing Attitude and Technology Deployment in Selected Southwestern Nigerian Universities

The study examined the attitude of selected Nigerian universities towards the adoption of green-computing, assess the extent to which green–computing (g-computing) technologies are deployed in Nigerian higher education institutions as well as the readiness of the universities to adopt green readiness. A cross sectional survey design was adopted for the study, one university each from the federal, state and private universities were selected from the southwestern geo-political zone of Nigeria, the participants of the study who were conveniently sampled were the administrators in the selected universities. A green-computing readiness questionnaire was administered on 120 administrators to elicit information on the attitude of the institution towards green computing, their readiness to adopt it and the level of green- Information Technology (IT) deployed towards the use of g-computing .The resulting data were analyzed using descriptive statistics The result showed that the sampled universities even though possessed good attitude towards g-computing had low level of deployment of green IT technology with low readiness level of adoption of green computing.