- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Presentation
La Fondation de France, premier réseau de philanthropie en France
Chacun de nous a le pouvoir d’agir pour l’intérêt général. Cette conviction est, depuis plus de 50 ans, le moteur de la Fondation de France. Chaque jour, elle encourage, accompagne et transforme les envies d’agir en actions utiles et efficaces pour construire un monde plus apaisé, solidaire et durable. La Fondation de France a développé un savoir-faire unique, en s’appuyant sur les meilleurs experts, des centaines de bénévoles et des milliers d’acteurs de terrain, dans tous les domaines de l’intérêt général : aide aux personnes vulnérables, recherche médicale, environnement, culture, éducation… Avec les 945 fondations qu’elle abrite, elle soutient chaque année plus de 10 000 initiatives prometteuses et innovantes, en France et à l’international. Indépendante et privée, elle agit grâce à la générosité des donateurs.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- 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.)
- 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
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- 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
- 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
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures