Sustainably designed and managed information systems can support responsible business processes and end-of-life product management by focusing on energy efficiency of IT infrastructure, application development, and e-waste issues.

Advanced technologies like the Internet of Things, Data Visualization, and Blockchain are tools that can help companies, communities and countries manage data in order to understand and improve environmental and social performance.

Operating computers, networks, and data centers comes along with vast amounts of electricity consumption. Therefore, organizations need to consider how to optimize energy usage in data storage centers and cloud infrastructures in order to become more environmentally and socially friendly. 

Information gathering, analysis, visualization and reporting is essential for to monitoring and improving environmental and social performance. This includes information baselines on inputs (energy, water, materials, etc.) and outputs (waste, emissions, etc.).