Eco-conception

SMEs in all sectors find themselves obliged to digitalise production and organisation. Digitalisation can bring a wealth of benefits, but also opens them up to many risks. These range from data privacy and cyber security, to ethics of data and technology. They range from digital inclusion, job substitution / insecurity, to energy use with big data. Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) is a set of practices and behaviour that help an organisation to use data and digital technologies in a way that is socially, economically, technologically, and environmentally responsible. In theory, it sounds obvious. In practice, it is not so easy to achieve, particularly for SMEs. Public support is, thus, required to ensure that the digital revolution is accompanied by an awareness of its socio-economic and environmental threats and by practical tools and support systems that can ensure even the smallest SMEs can de digitally responsible. CDR EUROPE takes up this challenge. We group partners from 7 EU regions, representing different levels of digitalisation, economic fabrics and CDR maturity levels, but all committed to ensuring that SMES reap the benefits of responsible digitalisation. Partners merge varied expertise on relevant topics, which range from public measures to support SME digitalisation processes, cyber security, environmental impacts of digitalisation, to digital social inclusion, to name but a few. Using the International CDR Manifesto as a starting point, we implement an interregional exchange approach that takes us through stages of Consolidating Concepts, Understanding Challenges and Seeking Answers, towards Being the Change: achieving policy improvements and monitoring impact. 4 regions design and test a Pilot Action supporting CDR uptake in SMEs and we use results to feed into change in all partner territories. CDR EUROPE supports better regional development policies for CDR uptake in SMEs, with extensive socio-economic impact on our territories.

Les chiffres clés de l'impact des réseaux, des terminaux et des usages sur l’environnement, les travaux de l'Arcep et les réflexions des régulateurs européens des télécoms.

How much power does loading a JPEG, WebP, and AVIF image consumer on a user's device? In this post, I've used the Firefox Profiler to run some unscientific tests in the hopes of finding out.

Rendre Internet plus éco-responsable, c’est prendre en compte l’impact environnemental des sites et applications mobiles dès leur conception. Expert en numérique responsable chez Greenspector - une entreprise qui aide les organisations à réduire l’impact environnemental de leurs sites et applications -, Laurent Devernay dresse un panorama des bonnes pratiques pour rendre nos sites et applications plus responsables.

If your software is slow, throwing hardware at the problem is often a bad first solution.

Website carbon calculators are not very accurate, especially if they only use data transfer as the metric.

Developers need metrics that are consistent and easy to optimize, but carbon intensity varies in time and space. So when is it a useful metric for developers to consider?

In the early history of particle physics, the neutrino was proposed by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930. At the time, nobody thought this particle had a mass – it was just “spin.” Imagine a…

Mining metals has a rising environmental cost. But high losses and low recycling rates mean that many last only a short time.

Dans cet article nous allons aborder ensemble le versant écologique des actions du collectif. Nous y partageons notamment nos réflexions et pratiques en cours et à venir.

We make environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments.

Does an app in Node.js/Rails consume more energy than the same app in Vanilla.js+WebComponents/React.js? We've used Argos, our energy footprint calculator, to find out.

In this post, Mightybytes discusses the importance of managing data and adopting a data disposal policy for a sustainable data strategy.

I've always had a pretty simple success criteria for myself as a human, and for Wholegrain Digital as a business. Success for me means that the world is better off because we exist. If successful, whatever resources we take or harm we do will be outweighed by the contributions we make.

Everything on Earth is made from 90 chemical elements – but some of them are endangered elements that could get used up, the European Chemical Society warns.

Rassurez-vous : nous n’allons pas parler respect de la vie privée, bien que la tentation soit forte (notre pôle RGPD Temesis est plus qualifié que moi pour intervenir sur cette problématique). …

Loin des mythes, découvrez la vraie empreinte carbone d'un email et 3 conseils pour la réduire (et que vider votre boite mail ne sert à rien, enfin presque)

Smartphones can contain ~80% of the stable elements on the periodic table. This graphic details the critical metals you carry in your pocket.

Dans cet article, nous analysons la notion de "besoin" et questionnons les démarches Centrées Utilisateurs

De la trinité du design au diagramme de design éco-responsable, découvrez comment l'évolution de ce modèle fondamental peut rediriger le design de services

Volkswagen make clean diesel engines. Like really clean diesel. Or so they claimed. Their Clean Diesel technology was a key selling feature of some of their most popular vehicles. Then in 2015, it all fell apart when the US Environmental Protection Agency found that real world NOx emissions from their vehicles were forty times higher than in laboratory tests. To make it worse, this was not an accident. Volkswagen had programmed their engine management system to identify when a vehicle was going through an emissions test and modify engine performance to reduce emissions during the testing cycle. This was not only misleading, it was illegal. The deception affected 11 million cars worldwide and became known as the Dieselgate scandal, probably the best known example of corporate greenwashing.

Constat : avec l’âge nos applications prennent du poidsAvec l’accroissement des possibilités de stockage offertes par les smartphones et l’augmentation de la bande passante disponible, nos apps n’ont cessé de “prendre du poids” au cours du temps.

Find out how the GOV.UK One Login programme is using green IT to make our service as sustainable as possible.

CivicActions Accessibility site is an open project for our team members and those who work for digital inclusion.

Depuis son origine, le génie logiciel s’est attaché à élaborer des méthodes, concepts et outils pour réduire significativement les coûts liés au développement (maintenance, réutilisation...) des logiciels, garantir leur intégrité, fiabilité... Cependant, pour relever le défi de la transition écologique, une nouvelle préoccupation doit être intégrée dans tous ces artefacts : le coût environnemental. Ainsi, le génie logiciel « éco-responsable » est la branche qui s’intéresse à l’efficience énergétique et à la durabilité des logiciels. Nous dégageons notamment 6 grandes pistes de recherche qui, combinées, peuvent apporter des réponses à la hauteur des enjeux.

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