SIGNATORY RECORD

L'Hermitage

Date of signature : 05/06/2024

  • Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter

Small/Medium-sized Enterprises (10 to 250 employees)

Studies and advice

30 contributors

Autrêches, France

jean@hermitagelelab.com

https://www.hermitagelelab.com/

Presentation

Au carrefour de l’Aisne et de l’Oise, l’Hermitage est un lieu unique qui mêle innovation sociale, environnementale et technologique.

Bien plus qu’un simple tiers-lieu, l’Hermitage est un groupe constitué de quatre entités, dont deux entreprises à mission (L’Hermitage Séjours Inspirants et l’Hermitage Impact & Transitions) qui proposent des prestations évènementielles et des séminaires au sein du tiers-lieu ainsi que des prestations de conseil, d’accompagnement et de prototypage de projets à impact partout en France.

Une coopérative foncière détient le domaine sur lequel opère le tiers-lieu. Enfin, une association gère les activités d’intérêt général locales et nationales. Catalyseur de rencontres entre acteurs locaux engagés et acteurs d’autres horizons, l’Hermitage fait le pont entre les villes et les campagnes et a pour objectif de faire vivre hors de ses murs les expérimentations de son tiers-lieu en les appliquant à d’autres territoires ruraux isolés.
L’Hermitage s’inscrit ainsi dans le mouvement mondial 3 ZÉRO qui œuvre au développement d’un monde zéro exclusion, zéro carbone, zéro pauvreté.

Avec ses 21 bâtiments et ses 30 hectares de terrain, L’Hermitage devient le premier campus qui réunit des acteurs multiples afin de réinventer le modèle de développement et de coexistence de demain.

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
  • Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
  • Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
  • 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
  • Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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