Date of signature : 11/04/2024
- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Micro Entreprise (1 to 10 employees)
Other
5 contributors
Brussels, Belgique
helen@vucable.com
Presentation
Vucable, based in Brussels, is a specialized consulting and development firm focused on human-centered digital transformation, particularly within the public sector. Founded by AI expert Helen Tueni, the company provides digital strategy, AI education, and custom technology solutions designed to maximize digitalization benefits. Vucable emphasizes responsible AI use, delivering practical GovTech solutions that support digital inclusion for vulnerable communities. The team’s expertise includes project management, technical advisory, and hands-on implementation in AI-driven service initiatives, fostering impactful advancements in digital literacy and public access to technology.
Planned commitments and actions
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- 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 diversity in the recruitment of IS teams (initial and continuing training, diversity of training, origins, disability status)
- Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
- 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)
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
- 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
- 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
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- 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.)
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Encourage gender diversity in the digital field at all levels
- 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