Numérique Responsable

We need to build a better web. A web by and for humans.

Mike considers how we can apply lessons and patterns from the accessibility movement to the emerging digital sustainability movement.

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Remember Grunt files? Gulp files? We rarely need to think about CSS minification, chunking, splitting and post-processing anymore. Here's why.

Bonnes pratiques de conformité au RGESN pour les designers, classées par étape de projet

Découvrez les propositions d'amélioration pour les critères 'Contenus' du RGESN dans cette analyse critique approfondie.

This investigation delves into Green AI and Sustainable AI literature through a dual-analytical approach, combining thematic analysis with BERTopic modeling to reveal both broad thematic clusters and nuanced emerging topics. It identifies three major thematic clusters: (1) Responsible AI for Sustainable Development, focusing on integrating sustainability and ethics within AI technologies; (2) Advancements in Green AI for Energy Optimization, centering on energy efficiency; and (3) Big Data-Driven Computational Advances, emphasizing AI’s influence on socio-economic and environmental aspects. Concurrently, BERTopic modeling uncovers five emerging topics: Ethical Eco-Intelligence, Sustainable Neural Computing, Ethical Healthcare Intelligence, AI Learning Quest, and Cognitive AI Innovation, indicating a trend toward embedding ethical and sustainability considerations into AI research. The study reveals novel intersections between Sustainable and Ethical AI and Green Computing, indicating significant research trends and identifying Ethical Healthcare Intelligence and AI Learning Quest as evolving areas within AI’s socio-economic and societal impacts. The study advocates for a unified approach to innovation in AI, promoting environmental sustainability and ethical integrity to foster responsible AI development. This aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing the need for ecological balance, societal welfare, and responsible innovation. This refined focus underscores the critical need for integrating ethical and environmental considerations into the AI development lifecycle, offering insights for future research directions and policy interventions.

Chez OCTO, nous sommes soucieux de l'environnement et de l'impact que nos activités peuvent avoir sur la planète. C'est pourquoi nous avons décidé de mettre en place une démarche d'éco-conception pour la refonte de notre site internet.

Greenbids position sustainability at the core of the entire Programmatic and YouTube value chain through advanced technology solutions.

Au même titre que l’Accessibilité Numérique, le GreenIT 🌱 (ou éco-conception numérique) est une pratique qui devient essentiel d’inclure dans vos projets We...

Le CMS Drupal permet de créer des sites Web éco-responsables. Découvrez les bonnes pratiques techniques pour des sites internet plus verts.

Spotify a annoncé la fin du support de son Car Thing, ce qui équivaut a balancer des tonnes de materiel fonctionnel à la poubelle.

Today's data centers use substantial amounts of the world's electrical supply. However, in line with circular economy concepts, much of this energy can be reused. Such reuse includes the heating of buildings, but also commodity dehydration, electricity production and energy storage. This multi-disciplinary paper presents several novel applications for data center waste heat. Next, the paper accounts for three case studies, taken from three different societal contexts: urban Malaysia, rural Costa Rica and semi-urban Sweden. A discussion on data center energy metrics leads to the development of a new metric, Datacenter Energy Sustainability Score (DESS), which is evaluated within the three use cases. Last, it is shown how a material social view on metrics provides a way past a problem that has haunted the data center industry for the last 15 years, whilst benefitting both data center owners who want to compete through sustainability as well as stakeholders from governments on local, regional and national levels. The paper makes clear that a sustainability strategy should be based on a material social view and stretch beyond the building itself. In fact, and as demonstrated by the relevance of DESS, modern data centers are so energy-efficient that data center sustainability is no longer mainly an engineering issue, but a matter requiring multi-disciplinary insights, approaches and collaboration.

As part of GitHub's dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams.

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

Quelle est la consommation d'une requête sur ChatGPT ? Combien de CO2 est émis pour générer une image avec une IA ? J'ai compilé toutes les données concrètesà disposition pour mieux cerner les enjeux et les usages.

In the past decade, global warming made several headlines and turned the attention of the whole world to it. Carbon footprint is the main factor that drives greenhouse emissions up and results in the temperature increase of the planet with dire consequences. While the attention of the public is turned to reducing carbon emissions by transportation, food consumption and household activities, we ignore the contribution of CO2eq emissions produced by online activities. In the current information era, we spend a big amount of our days browsing online. This activity consumes electricity which in turn produces CO2eq. While website browsing contributes to the production of greenhouse gas emissions, the impact of the Internet on the environment is further exacerbated by the web-tracking practice. Indeed, most webpages are heavily loaded by tracking content used mostly for advertising, data analytics and usability improvements. This extra content implies big data transmissions which results in higher electricity consumption and thus higher greenhouse gas emissions. In this work, we focus on the overhead caused by web tracking and analyse both its network and carbon footprint. By leveraging the browsing telemetry of 100k users and the results of a crawling experiment of 2.7M websites, we find that web tracking increases data transmissions upwards of 21%, which in turn implies the additional emission of around 11 Mt of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere every year. We find such contribution to be far from negligible, and comparable to many activities of modern life, such as meat production, transportation, and even cryptocurrency mining. Our study also highlights that there exist significant inequalities when considering the footprint of different countries, website categories, and tracking organizations, with a few actors contributing to a much greater extent than the remaining ones.

Réaliser un cahier des charges d’un site éco-conçu, c’est entrer dans une démarche de conception différente. La réflexion porte sur l’essentiel et l’utilité pour éviter le superflu. Dressons quelques pistes pour vous aider à intégrer l’éco-conception dans votre cahier des charges de création d’un site internet.

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

Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility is faster, and more efficient, than traditional JPEG.

En 2024, l’Association négaWatt lance officiellement le projet Minimal, centré sur l’enjeu des ressources minières. Ce projet vise à fixer des objectifs de consommation pour l’Europe et à élaborer des recommandations politiques afin de réduire progressivement l’extraction de métaux. L’analyse se focalise sur huit métaux particulièrement impactants pour l’environnement ou représentant un enjeu crucial pour la transition énergétique dans les décennies à venir.

Le numérique comme les autres industries impacte en bien comme en mal notre société. Nous sommes convaincus que l’écoconception est une issue à certains de ces maux.

Face à l’incompatibilité des trajectoires de développement du secteur du numérique avec les limites planétaires et à ses impacts sociaux. Fort.e.s de ce constat et inspiré.e.s par les travaux de précurseur·euse.s, nous avons fait évoluer nos activités respectives pour intégrer le secteur qu’on appelle communément “numérique responsable”. Initialement, nous avons pris le parti de la “mesure” en participant à l’amélioration des pratiques de comptabilité environnementale dans le secteur des services numériques. Bien que nous ne rejetons aucune de ces approches et pratiques, nous ne pouvons que constater leur insuffisance vis-à-vis des enjeux socio environnementaux posés par la numérisation. Dans cet article, nous revenons sur les limites de ces approches, formalisées collectivement au cours de ces dernières années.