SIGNATORY RECORD

UNITEL Technologies

Date of signature : 07/06/2023

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Digital Services Companies

IT, telecoms

8 contributors

MARSEILLE, France

pauline.rostain@unitelgroup.net

https://www.unitel-groupe.net/

Presentation

UNITEL Technologies est un opérateur de services cloud et télécoms de nouvelle génération, aujourd’hui un acteur souverain reconnu du secteur de l’hébergement à hautes performances et de la mise à disposition de services de stockage et de télécommunications 5G.
UNITEL Technologies est en phase de montée en charge en raison de l’intérêt qu’elle porte aux nouvelles technologies et à ses usages directement au cœur des enjeux métiers.

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
  • Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.)
  • 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
  • Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services

Actions started

  • Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
  • Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
  • 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)
  • Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
  • 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