- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Micro Entreprise (1 to 10 employees)
IT, telecoms
1 contributors
Verneuil-sur-Seine, France
info@about-network.com
Presentation
About Network est une société d'intégration et de conseil dans les activités d'infrastructure informatique et télécoms qui s'engage dans la résilience des services et l'indépendance des solutions. A travers ses études et son assistance technique, About Network conseille les Entreprises de la TPE au Grand Comptes à l'optimisation de la gestion de ses ressources d'infrastructures, leur souveraineté et leur sobriété. Au delà d'un réseau de compétences maillées, About Network c'est aussi un cercle vertueux pour le recyclage, la réutilisation pour donner une seconde vie, adresser des budgets limité mais surtout faire un geste pour la planète.
Planned commitments and actions
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
- 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.)
Actions started
- 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
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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