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and reported with the help of information systems. Feeding this information back to the
employee through smart metering can bring about immediate change in behavior. For exam-
ple, during enactment… (Deshpande and Unhelkar 2011, Yogesh, HRG) if an employee in
a bank is provided, as a real-time meter, information on the amount of carbon generated by
his computer, then the visual effect of not-turning off her computer is immediately felt. is
is encouraging and reinforcing a positive change in the behavior of the employee. Similarly
information coming out of the Green ICT systems that bring about positive change includes
reports of daily, monthly, and yearly GHG generation and using tha