Date of signature : 09/14/2026
- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Digital Services Companies
IT, telecoms
6 contributors
Montmorency, France
contact@sovereign-data-solutions.com
Presentation
Sovereign Data Solutions (SDS) est une société de services numériques française établie à Montmorency, dans le Val-d'Oise. Depuis 2012, elle conçoit, développe, héberge et maintient des plateformes web multi-acteurs pour des entreprises, des associations et des acteurs publics : places de marché, plateformes d'échange et de réemploi (spécialisation économie circulaire), portails métier, sites institutionnels.
Éditrice de sa propre plateforme applicative, SDS intervient également en développement sur mesure et en tierce maintenance applicative sur des socles open source (Drupal, WordPress, Python). L'équipe, composée de six personnes, assure l'intégralité de la chaîne de valeur, du cadrage à l'hébergement, sans sous-traitance.
Le numérique responsable rejoint le positionnement de SDS sur trois plans. La souveraineté des données d'abord : hébergement et outillage européens, conformité RGPD contractualisée avec nos clients, notamment publics. Les logiciels libres ensuite, qui constituent le socle de la quasi-totalité de nos réalisations. Les usages enfin : plusieurs des plateformes que nous avons développées servent des finalités d'économie circulaire et de lutte contre le gaspillage, du réemploi d'équipements aux bourses d'échange internes de grands groupes.
En signant la Charte Numérique Responsable, SDS entend formaliser une démarche jusqu'ici empirique : sensibiliser l'ensemble de l'équipe, mesurer l'impact environnemental des services que nous produisons, généraliser l'éco-conception et l'accessibilité dans nos méthodes de développement, et allonger la durée de vie de notre parc.
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
- 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
- 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
- Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
- 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
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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)
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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