AQCLab has collaborated with the Alarcos Research Group (J. David Patón-Romero and Mario Piattini) of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the University of Bari (Maria Teresa Baldassarre) and the Unidad Central del Valle del Cauca (José Gabriel Pérez-Canencio, Mary Luz Ojeda-Solarte y Andrés Rey-Piedrahita) in the development of a case study on the application of ISO/IEC 33000 for the evaluation of maturity in the governance and management of Green IT. The case study, "Application of ISO/IEC 33000 to Green IT: A Case Study", has been published in the journal IEEE Access.

The idea of sustainability has emerged in the IT sector through the so-called Green IT practices. These practices are attracting many organizations that have realized the importance of this area and the benefits it generates socially, economically and environmentally. However, there is a lack of standards and/or frameworks to help organisations carry out these Green IT practices. For this reason, the authors of this paper have developed the "Governance and Management Framework for Green IT" and a maturity model based on ISO/IEC 33000 for this framework, which allows the implementation, evaluation and improvement of Green IT in organizations in a systematic and progressive way.

This study presents an empirical validation through a case study carried out with these proposals, emphasizing the application of the ISO/IEC 33000 family of standards to Green IT. The results obtained in this case study demonstrate the importance of having a maturity model for Green IT and the validity and usefulness of the application of ISO/IEC 33000 to Green IT through the maturity model developed.