- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Digital Services Companies
IT, telecoms
22 contributors
Antwerpen, Belgique
hello@datacenterunited.com
Presentation
FR: Votre Data Center de proximité à votre écoute. Nous savons quelles valeurs sont les plus importantes pour être votre partenaire de confiance en matière de centres de données.
Avec nous, vous pouvez être sûr de pouvoir vous concentrer sur votre activité principale tandis que nous nous concentrons à 100% sur vos données.
Nous nous appuyons sur les principes suivants: Fiabilité, Flexibilité, Evolutivité, Local.
En outre quelques-uns de nos engagements:
- Environnement
La réduction de l’empreinte carbone mondiale est un processus continu. Travailler avec des énergies renouvelables et optimiser le PUE, le WUE et le GUE font partie d’une stratégie ambitieuse en matière d’énergie verte. L’alignement sur les initiatives européennes Green Deal et les directives de l’entreprise en constituent la base.
- Chaîne d’approvisionnement
L’achat responsable et l’atténuation des risques environnementaux, commerciaux et sociaux sont notre priorité absolue. L’adoption d’une attitude équitable et le maintien de relations commerciales transparentes sont hautement appréciés.
- Capital humain
Au sein de Datacenter United, la responsabilité sociale est notre seconde nature. L’égalité, la neutralité et les droits de l’homme en général font partie intégrante de l’ADN de notre entreprise. Offrir la possibilité de suivre des formations et proposer un environnement sain 24h/24 et 7j/7 contribue à la motivation et à la satisfaction des employés.
- Gouvernance
Nous nous engageons à appliquer les principes de gouvernance d’entreprise et d’éthique commerciale à toutes les parties prenantes. Datacenter United estime qu’une entreprise durable doit fournir des biens et des services en accord avec une société respectueuse de l’environnement, prospère, équitable, saine et sûre.
EN:
We speak your language. So we know which values are the most important as being your trusted datacenter partner.
With us you can rest assure you can focus on your core business and meanwhile rested assured we focus 100% on your data.
We trust on the following company principles: Secure, reliable, Scalable and Local.
More over our engagements:
- Environment
Reducing the global carbon footprint is a continuous process. Working with renewables and optimizing the PUE, WUE & GUE, are part of an ambitous green energy strategy. Alignment with the European Green Deal initiatives and directives of the business form the basis.
-Supply chain
Responsible purchasing and mitigating environmental, business and social risks is our top focus. Adopting a fair attitude and maintaining transparant business relations are highly valued.
-Human capital
Within Datacenter United social responsibility is our 2nd nature. Focussing on equality, neutrality and human rights in general are fully embedded into our company DNA. Offering the possibility to follow training courses and offering a 24/7 healthy environment helps to drive motivation and employee satisfcation.
- Governance
We are committed to apply the principles of corporate governance and business ethics to all stakeholders. Datacenter United believes that a sustainable company should provide goods and services aligned with an environmentally-sound, prosperous, equitable, healthy and safe society.
Planned commitments and actions
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
Actions started
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- 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
- 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
- Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good