Sustainable Computing in Oman: A Corporate Social Responsibility Where Cost-Cutting and Environmental Concerns Take a Backseat

Runita Marwah

This paper primarily focuses on examining the level of awareness about sustainable computing amongst the participants and to further explore, if there are any visible measures taken or the policies implemented for the same in selected academic organisations in Oman. In addition, the knowledge about sustainable computing is monitored, assessed and supported through a single group pre-test and post-test research design to establish the relevance of the intervention study though inferential statistical analysis. The research examines the alarming rate of ignorance towards sustainable computing amongst the participants. Consequently, creating an evident necessity for increased level of awareness and knowledge through constant training and support. Therefore, an intervention experiment was conducted through a pre-test and post-test research design, where the same set of participants were exposed to a self-instructional module with the intention of observing increased level of knowledge