SIGNATORY RECORD

Ryde Technology AS

Date of signature : 10/24/2023

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Large companies (250 to 5,000 employees)

Transport, logistics

15 contributors

Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels, Belgique

support@ryde-technology.com

https://www.ryde-technology.com

Presentation

Ryde, based in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Belgium, is a leading provider of premium electric scooters in a rapidly growing micro-mobility market. The company operates in 25+ cities across these countriesRyde offers a time-efficient and environmentally friendly transportation solution as an attractive alternative to cars and public transportation. The company leads in its markets thanks to its excellent technological solutions and efficient operations. We develop our customer facing and operations applications in-house and are always trying to incorporate improved standards to make our service accessible and easy to use for all our stakeholders. We operate a fleet of 35 000 vehicles that is all controlled digitally, where we specialise in building our own IoT to control the hardware for the optimal user experience and connectivity.

We wish to take part in the Sustainable IT Charter to show our commitment to the princples laid of in the standard as well as take part in evolving the principles and get inspiration and collaboration from like-minded companies.

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
  • Certify your employees
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 the development of useful and efficient digital services
  • 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
  • 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
  • Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
  • Favouring low-impact energy sources
  • Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
  • 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
  • Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
  • Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data