Date of signature : 11/19/2024
- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Digital Services Companies
Studies and advice
100 contributors
Neuilly Sur Seine, France
rtaboubi@ossia-conseil.com
Presentation
Chez Ossia, nous prônons la diversité autant en termes de culture que de parcours professionnel. Nous mettons en avant les compétences de chacun afin de le faire évoluer sur du long terme. Notre mode de fonctionnement : Le travail en équipe! Il permet de bénéficier de l’intelligence collective et surtout d’aller plus loin.
Chez Ossia, nous avons conscience que les entreprises ont un rôle à jouer dans notre société : nous avons une responsabilité sociale, environnementale et sociétale envers nos employés, clients et partenaires mais aussi, envers nos fournisseurs ou encore, nos écosystèmes en règle générale. Dans ce sens, nous tenions à mettre en place des actions claires pour notre planète. Ainsi, Ossia Conseil s’engage depuis ses débuts pour protéger et respecter les devoirs d’une entreprise envers ses employés. Un engagement qui ne s’est pas limité à ce cadre au fil des années, car c’est dans les gênes d’OSSIA que s'inscrit cette vocation à changer les choses pour tous, et ce à notre échelle.
Planned commitments and actions
- Certify your employees
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
- 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
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- 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.)
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- 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
- 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
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- 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)
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- 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
- 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
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- 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
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- 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
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures