SIGNATORY RECORD

Zero Brussels LEVV

Date of signature : 06/15/2024

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Micro Entreprise (1 to 10 employees)

IT, telecoms

2 contributors

Bruxelles, Belgique

julien@levv.io

https://www.levv.io

Presentation

=> redesigned for sustainability
our data centers are designed from ground up with sustainability in mind. Our infrastructure is composed of edge deployments where the waste heat of servers is used
to produce residential hot water.
/no water usage /up to 50% less energy /social impact /symbiosis
=> crafted for simplicity
levv is crafted by developers for developers so that it’s easy to pick up.
Our platform is built on top of open standards like containers and the compose specification and does not introduce new concepts or abstractions. If you know
containers, you know levv cloud.
/no lock-in /compose /interoperable
=> shaped for human-scale
levv is all about building meaningful relationships with its partners and with its customers.
Our Terms and Conditions (under construction ) are shaped to be readable. And as a local actor, we provide human-to-human support

Planned commitments and actions

  • Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
  • Certify your employees
  • Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
  • Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
  • Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
  • Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
  • Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
  • Use start-ups, associations and sustainable innovation projects to meet my needs for products and services, and participate in the structuring and improvement of these sustainable offers and services
  • Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
  • Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
  • Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
  • Ensure diversity in the recruitment of IS teams (initial and continuing training, diversity of training, origins, disability status)
  • Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
  • Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
  • Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good

Actions started

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
  • Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
  • Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
  • Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
  • Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
  • Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
  • Ensuring that its suppliers and service providers comply with their GDPR requirements or follow the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules for other countries, environmental, social and diversity
  • Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
  • Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
  • Favouring low-impact energy sources
  • Measure the impact of its digital services (e.g. frequency of use or energy consumption) using a multi-criteria and global approach to the entire service (equipment, servers, networks, etc.)
  • Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
  • Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
  • Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
  • Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem
  • Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services