- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Presentation
Troisième canton le plus peuplé de Suisse, le canton de Vaud est un territoire reconnu pour le dynamisme de son écosystème d’innovation, avec plus de 2000 entreprises technologiques, 50'000 emplois hautement qualifiés, et des centres de formation et d’innovation de pointe, comme l’EPFL, l’Unil ou la HEIG-VD.
L’Etat de Vaud, administration publique cantonale et premier employeur du canton, s’appuie sur une stratégie numérique pour valoriser ce potentiel d’innovation tout en préservant la cohésion sociale. Au travers de son Agenda 2030, de son plan climat et de sa politique en matière de systèmes d’information, le Canton de Vaud s’engage pour un numérique responsable, au service de l’action publique et de ses objectifs d’exemplarité en matière de durabilité.
Planned commitments and actions
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- 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
- 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.)
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
- 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
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services