SIGNATORY RECORD

ESGI

Date of signature : 03/07/2023

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

School/University

IT, telecoms

85 contributors

PARIS, France

admissions@esgi.fr

https://www.esgi.fr/

Presentation

L’ESGI a été créé à la demande des professionnels de l’informatique il y a plus de 40 ans afin de développer des profils à bac+3 et bac+5 spécialisés dans les métiers liés au numérique. L'école propose aujourd'hui des programmes à tous les niveaux (Bachelor et Master) dans les 9 grandes filières de la profession sur 10 campus en France (Lyon, Lille, Paris, Reims, Aix, Grenoble, Toulon, Toulouse, Nantes et Rennes en 2023) avec près de 3000 apprentis (2300 à Paris et 700 en Région).

L'ESGI est une école reconnue par l'état qui délivre des titres RNCP niveau 6 et 7 pour ses programmes Bachelor et Mastère dans différentes spécialités de l'informatique afin de préparer les apprenants à la carrière choisie et y développer son potentiel numérique: Architecture des logiciels, Mobilité et Objets Connectés, Ingénierie du Web, Ingénierie de la Réalité Virtuelle et Jeux Vidéo, Ingénierie de la Blockchain, Intelligence Artificielle et Ingénierie du Big Data, Systèmes Réseaux et Cloud Computing, Sécurité Informatique, Management et Conseil en Systèmes d'Information.

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
  • 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
  • Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
  • Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
  • Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
  • 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
  • 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
  • Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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