- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Small/Medium-sized Enterprises (10 to 250 employees)
IT, telecoms
450 contributors
Brussels, Belgique
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Presentation
Contraste Europe has been supplying IT services and consulting since 1994 on the Belgian, Luxembourg, French and Swiss markets.
We offer a wide range of services: Program/Project Management, Application/Web/Mobile Development, UI/UX, ITSM, Cloud/System/Network engineering, Document Management solutions, Data Intelligence, ERP, and more.
Contraste Europe proposes its services in different, flexible contractual approaches: project-based, SLA-based, T&M, offshoring, Work Packages and shared management. We bring our expertise and experience to our clients with the objective to give the best added value.
It is remarkable that we retain nearly 100% of our clients. Even those clients who trusted us back in 1994 are still calling upon our services.
In Belgium, our clients are financial institutions, insurance companies, press groups, water/gas/electricity utilities, public authorities, healthcare, and non-profit organization.
On the ESG side, Contraste Europe has been participating in the UN Global compact since 2019, and is also registered with Ecovadis. We give great importance to societal and environmental questions, and we make sure that Contraste Europe is a good Corporate Citizen.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- 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
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- 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
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- 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
- 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
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, 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
- Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem