- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Other
Business services
5 contributors
Lausanne, Suisse
info@fondation-fit.ch
Presentation
La Fondation pour l’Innovation technologique (FIT) a été créée en 1994. Elle œuvre à l’accompagnement et au développement des start-ups romandes grâce à des aides financières.
Fondée par le canton de Vaud, l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise et la Chambre vaudoise du commerce et de l’industrie, la FIT est une organisation à but non lucratif qui encourage l'entrepreneuriat, soutient l'innovation et contribue à dynamiser l'économie locale en accordant des prêts et bourses aux jeunes entreprises. Le financement vise les start-ups vaudoises et romandes, innovant soit par leur contenu technologique, soit par leur modèle d’affaires. Pour remplir tous les critères, les projets doivent dans certains cas être rattachés à une Haute Ecole du canton de Vaud (HES, EPFL, Unil, HEIG-VD…).
La FIT soutient les projets œuvrant dans les domaines de l'énergie & environnement, les industries de précision, la nutrition & les technologies alimentaires, les sciences de la vie et santé, et les technologies de l'information et du numérique.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- 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
- 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
- Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good
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
- 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
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- 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
- 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