- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Large company
IT, telecoms
1500 contributors
Brussels, Belgique
anne.devos@orange.com
Presentation
Orange Belgium is one of the major telecommunication market actors in Belgium and in Luxembourg through its subsidiary Orange Communications Luxembourg.
The company offers prepaid and subscription mobile services as well as various other innovative telecommunication services. Orange is also a convergent operator offering TV and internet services via cable network in Belgium.
On the corporate market, Orange provides mobile and fixed telephony as well as broadband internet. Positioned as an integrated communications operator, Orange proposes a wide portfolio of connectivity and mobility services, including offers that are built on big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). Orange is also a wholesale operator and provides its partners with access to its infrastructure and service capabilities.
Orange has over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg and operates a top-quality mobile network with continuous investment. The company’s high-performance network offers 2G, 3G, 4G, 4G+ and 4.5G technologies.
Orange Belgium is a subsidiary of the Orange Group, one of the leading operators in Europe and Africa for mobile telephony and internet access, as well as one of the world leaders for telecommunication services to enterprises.
Orange Belgium is listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
As a trusted partner, we wish to give everyone the keys to responsibly benefit from the digital world.
We at Orange believe that digital is an opportunity, and we want as many people as possible to have access to it.
We are therefore doing everything we can to enable individuals and organisations to profit from the possibilities offered by digital, in full autonomy and securely, inclusively and sustainably.
We wanted to anchor this commitment in our strategic plan Engage2025. Within the framework of this plan we link business performances with a sustainable approach for our customers, our employees, our partners and society in general. This plan is based on 2 pillars: the environment and digital inclusion. With, as a corollary, tangible commitments and achievements on the ground.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- 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
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- 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
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services