Eco-conception

24 jours de web : Le calendrier de l'avent des gens qui font le web d'après.

Acheter un téléphone reconditionné est devenu un acte de bon sens, tant sur le plan du pouvoir d'achat que d'un point de vue environnemental. Pourtant, le marché des smartphones reconditionnés soulève de plus en plus de questions : approvisionnement à l'étranger, des pièces pas toujours d'origine, des antennes qui questionnent la sécurité sanitaire ou encore des marchands qui fraudent la TVA…

Masters thesis

The advancement in technology’s power is seen as a revolution. However, it is just as easy to argue that it seems like a new evolution of the same: capitalism has found a new life with digital technologies.

Nous pensons que l'évaluation des impacts environnementaux du numérique n'a de sens qu'avec des outils, méthodes et données libres. Voyons pourquoi.

Les semi-conducteurs sont au cœur de nos vies quotidiennes, mais que savons-nous vraiment d'eux ? Alors que les dernières sanctions américaines vis-à-vis de la Chine ravivent l’importance de ce terrain de compétition stratégique, nous proposons une étude inédite en 10 points, 12 graphiques et 2 cartes pour entrer dans la matrice de la rivalité technologique entre la Chine et les États-Unis qui structure le monde.

En s’affranchissant du support physique, la consommation de biens culturels numériques a-t-elle pour autant un impact environnemental moindre ?

Researchers urge extension of electronic devices’ useful life to cut carbon dioxide creation

Apply the design methodology and approach to building highly reliable applications on Microsoft Azure.

Les Cloud Providers multiplient les communications pour un cloud toujours plus responsable, au moment même où l’Irlande et les Pays-Bas instaurent un moratoire sur l’installation de nouveaux datacenters hyperscale.

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.