- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
- Signatory of the Responsible AI Charter
Digital Services Companies
IT, telecoms
245 contributors
Paris, France
rse@polyconseil.fr
Presentation
Polyconseil est une ESN de 250 collaborateurs travaillant sur le secteur du numérique (création de produits informatiques, développement et maintenance de solutions, audits techniques...) appliqué à un grand nombre de domaines (secteur public, mobilité, média...).
Chez Polyconseil, nous sommes passionnés d’innovations numériques et considérons que l’entreprise a une responsabilité à porter envers la société et l’environnement. Cette responsabilité est complémentaire à l’action individuelle et l’action politique.
En tant qu’acteurs du numérique, nous sommes convaincus que le numérique de demain devra être éthique, accessible, sobre énergétiquement pour préserver l’environnement, inclusif et générer un impact positif pour la société et les citoyens.
En particulier, nous avons en 2023 lancé une demarche de certification Numérique Responsable via l'Agence LUCIE, dont le processus est en cours de finition. Notre prochaine étape serait de signer la charte de l'INR afin de formaliser encore davantage notre démarche NR.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Certify your employees
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- 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
- 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
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- 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
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- 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
- Certify your employees
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem
- Participate in or encourage the co-construction/experimentation of Tech4Good