SIGNATORY RECORD

CONSULT IT

Date of signature : 09/01/2025

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Digital Services Companies

IT, telecoms

53 contributors

Nanterre, France

contact@consult-it.com

https://consult-it.com

Presentation

CONSULT IT est un acteur international de la transformation digitale, reconnu pour son expertise dans l’accompagnement stratégique des entreprises en France et à l'international. Nous proposons des solutions sur mesure pour répondre aux défis technologiques de nos clients, qu’il s’agisse de besoins à court terme ou de projets à long terme. Nous excellons dans les technologies les plus récentes et les transitions digitales complexes.

Planned commitments and actions

  • Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
  • Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
  • Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
  • Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
  • 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
  • Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
  • 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

Actions started

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Favouring low-impact energy sources
  • Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
  • 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
  • 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
  • Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data