- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Large company
IT, telecoms
11532 contributors
Bruxelles, Belgique
press@proximus.com
Presentation
Proximus est un fournisseur de services digitaux et de solutions de communication et ICT actif sur le marché belge et international. Notre mission est d’offrir à nos clients tout un monde de possibilités digitales pour qu’ils vivent mieux et travaillent plus efficacement. Nous le faisons en construisant le meilleur réseau gigabit ouvert, en proposant des produits et services répondant aux besoins de chaque client, en étant le partenaire de confiance des entreprises et de la société belge dans leur transformation digitale et en contribuant à une société verte et digitale.
Grâce à nos réseaux fixes et mobiles, nos clients ont accès, partout et à tout moment, à un vaste éventail de services digitaux, de données et de contenus multimédias. Nous bâtissons les fondements d'une croissance durable en investissant dans le réseau gigabit du futur, tout en affichant une réelle mentalité digitale et un esprit d’ouverture vis-à-vis des partenariats.
Acteur économique majeur en Belgique, nous voulons créer un impact positif sur le monde qui nous entoure. Nous soutenons le développement de nouveaux écosystèmes digitaux et de solutions innovantes au profit de l'économie belge. Au niveau sociétal, nous nous engageons pleinement à réduire la fracture numérique, en offrant des opportunités à tous les talents digitaux et en accélérant la transition vers une société verte.
Nous reconnaissons et apprécions la passion et l'expertise de nos collaborateurs. Ils sont notre atout le plus précieux pour réaliser nos ambitions. En retour, nous leur offrons un environnement de travail stimulant et inspirant, où chacun a la possibilité de se développer dans un esprit de diversité et de collaboration, d'innovation et de responsabilité. Chez Proximus, nos collaborateurs ont l'autonomie nécessaire pour exercer un impact réel sur la vie de nos clients. Ils forgent également leur propre avenir en se formant et en développant continuellement leurs compétences.
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
- Certify your employees
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good
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)
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services
- Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good