SIGNATORY RECORD

Akimbo

Date of signature : 08/21/2025

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Digital Services Companies

Business services

14 contributors

Paris, France

hello@akimbo.eu

https://www.akimbo.eu/

Presentation

Chez Akimbo, notre mission est de faire passer la vente d’un art à une science, afin qu'elle permette au plus grand nombre de réussir et de s'épanouir.

Nous construisons une communauté de talents commerciaux et d’entreprises qui diffusent une approche scientifique de la vente.

Notre équation de vente préférée est : Revenu = People * (Culture + Compétences + Processus + Outils).

Notre communauté compte +1 500 membres et +250 entreprises clientes.

⏩ Plus d'infos sur www.akimbo.eu

Planned commitments and actions

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
  • Certify your employees
  • 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
  • Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good

Actions started

  • Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data