SIGNATORY RECORD

Citizens

Date of signature : 09/16/2024

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  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Micro Entreprise (1 to 10 employees)

Business services

7 contributors

Rouen, France

contact@web-citizens.com

https://wearecitizens.fr

Presentation

Citizens est une société de l’économie sociale et solidaire, créée en 2020, qui accompagne entreprises, associations et citoyens dans un parcours d’engagement.
Nous avons une forte implantation régionale avec deux antennes : la première à Rouen, et la seconde ouverte en 2024 à Caen.

Planned commitments and actions

  • 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
  • Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
  • Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
  • 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

Actions started

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • Certify your employees
  • Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
  • Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
  • Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
  • 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
  • Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
  • 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.)
  • 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.)
  • Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
  • Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services
  • Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good