- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Small/Medium-sized Enterprises (10 to 250 employees)
IT, telecoms
22 contributors
GRABELS, France
stephane.bourrier@synapse-info.com
Presentation
Implantée à Montpellier et Marseille (22 collaborateurs, C.A. : 2,4 M €), Synapse est une société d’Ingénierie logicielle spécialisée dans trois domaines d’activités : les risques naturels, les risques industriels et l’assurance à la personne.
En tant qu’éditeur logiciel, Synapse commercialise en France et à l’international l’offre Saas FOLLOW (www.follow.solutions) , solution performante de supervision et de gestion temps réel du risque hydrologique et de gestion des ressources en eau.
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
- 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
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- 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
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- 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
Actions started
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- 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 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