Recommendations by Sustainable Development Goal #13
Goal : CLIMATE ACTION
Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.
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Emergence
Apart from the elements constituting the digital service, what are the necessary ancillary services: third-party / open source technology, green hosting, eco-responsible digital agency ... ?
Project framing
Is each function of the service understood in terms of its importance in the service ?
Project framing
Is regulated data (health, banking, etc.) used throughout the system ?
Project framing
Are personal data within the GDPR scope used ?
Emergence
Is the choice of Open Source solutions preferred ?
Emergence
Do the integrated tools (CMS, frameworks, ...), or internal developments, bring positive elements to the Sustainable IT approach ?
Emergence
Which technology adhering to Sustainable IT principles is most appropriate for my needs ?
Emergence
In the case of internal development (CMS, Framework, ...), what is the relevance of reworking it from the angle of Sustainable IT optimization, if the Sustainable IT approach is poorly mastered and the project is already advanced ?
Emergence
How to choose the most suitable technical solutions for Sustainable IT ?
Urbanisation
Have you built an IS target by seeking consistency and pooling ?
Urbanisation
Have you built piloted and prioritized roadmaps taking into account quick wins on the impacts of the IS ?
Urbanisation
Have you conducted global measurements of the impacts of the IS ?
Urbanisation
Do you have a system for disseminating knowledge about the IS (IS maps, Functional, Application, Technical References, etc.) ?
Urbanisation
Have you included digital sobriety objectives in the company's IS governance ?
Urbanisation
Have you defined and implemented within the DSI an IS debt and obsolescence management system ?
Urbanisation
Have you involved the business lines and the DG in the IS debt and obsolescence reduction plans ?
Urbanisation
Have you defined a sober policy for the use of environments ?
Urbanisation
Have you studied reengineering projects that go in the direction of pooling and therefore frugality ?
Urbanisation
Have you confirmed and controlled enterprise data repositories and data repositories ?
Urbanisation
Have you selected and deployed shared application bases ?
Urbanisation
Have you selected and deployed shared flow management systems (ESB, APIM, etc.) ?
Urbanisation
Have you promoted the implementation of development platforms allowing optimization and facilitating green coding ?
Urbanisation
Have you defined a policy, and optimized data archiving/storage practices and devices ?
Urbanisation
Have you favored the construction of data management architectures making it possible to pool data storage ?
Urbanisation
Have you optimized the life cycle of the data in order to keep only the data necessary from a business and regulatory point of view. Aggregate data may suffice. ?
Urbanisation
Have you implemented data governance ?
Urbanisation
Have you defined centralized data access procedures ?
Product
Are the Sustainable IT requirements included with all product functionalities ?
Product
Is each main or secondary function of the service perceived in terms of its importance in the service ?
Technology
Are all the project requirements (performance, security, accessibility, Sustainable IT) associated with each functionality ?
Product
Are the cases of exclusion of each functionality have been defined and alternatives offered ?
Product
Is the use for a feature validated in relation to its Sustainable IT impact ?
Product
What alternatives are proposed to deal with a functionality not retained ?
Product
Are the guidelines of the service not based on the effects of artificial habits ?
Product
Are user and technical interfaces designed to be efficient from an ICT Sustainable point of view ?
external environment
Are the regulatory aspects of accessibility taken into account ?
external environment
Is the service GDPR compliant ?
external environment
Is the security's level appropriate for the value of my data ?
technical IT
Are the technical solutions adopted driven by use rather than technical interest ?
technical IT
Is the functional value assessment of each user interaction performed ?
Can the impact of the functionality's coverage be reduced by the technical solution envisaged ?
economic process
Are solution providers and service providers chosen according to their capability to meet Sustainable IT specifications ?
economic process
Are the physical travel aspects calculated while selecting service providers, technical solutions and the organization of internal actors involved in the project ?
economic process
Do all providers' stakeholders have the same social benefits and working conditions ?
Deployment
Are the workstations subject to lifecycle management ?
Technology
Has a common space been made available to the project for sharing resources ?
Deployment
Do the resources / components available for the project have information regarding Sustainable IT compliance ?
Evolutions
In the technical resources of the project, are management's reliance taken into account, thus limiting the obesity of the technical solutions employed ?
sustainability
In the design choices (functional and technical), does the creation, update or end of life of one digital service domain have a reduced impact on other digital service domains ?
project objectives
Are the implementation of new services due to regulatory constraints (health, banking, etc.) necessary and, if necessary, do they rely on an available service base ?
Production
What are the defined KPIs ?
Methodology
In the brain storming process, are all stakeholders taken into account in their entire (human) dimension ?
Methodology
Is the planet taken into account in the brain storming process, in order to integrate the ecological dimension (planet centric design) ?
Methodology
Are the extra-financial added value of sustainble digital technology valued in the business model ?
Project Resources
Is a sustainable IT process planned at the level of project governance ?
Project Resources
Are Sustainable IT improvements identified and systematically planned ?
Project Resources
For the Sustainable IT aspects, do the project managers (project manager, product owner, etc.) have the same prerogatives as the business aspects ?
Project Resources
Is the deliverables's output (documentary production included) used upstream of the project and is it produced to allow it to be reused in subsequent projects ?
Project Resources
Is a budget on the 3Ps axes associated and monitored during the project ?
Project Resources
Are stakeholders informed about Sustainable IT ?
Methodology
Are the different phases of the project identified with their validation process, in order to get stakeholders to adhere to the iterative process ?
Uses
Have you set up an environmental footprint monitoring reporting system, resulting from the service's utilization and explotation by every user ?
Uses
What data is available for communication involving compliance with Sustainable IT standards and recommendations on the service ?
Uses
In order to encourage users to be protagonist in reducing their impacts, do they have access to references that introduce Sustainable IT practices ?
UI
Is a visual soberness implemented so as to reduce energy resources use and the impact on the material deterioration of the visual, sound and tactile interface's components ?
Methodology
Are the features used by the user ?
Methodology
Are decision-making justified and approved by reliable indicators on the use of functionalities throughout the service life cycle ?
Methodology
Is there a policy / approach / routine for the progressive reduction and prioritization of functionalities, interactions and graphic elements ?
Technology
Are the stakeholders of the SEO service involved, starting from the design phase ?
Use
Is the practice of e-mailing considered, justified and reduced to what is strictly necessary ?
Use
Are an archiving schedule and a lighter version of the old searchable content implemented ?
Technology
Has the analytics been limited to what is strictly necessary to optimize the service ?
UI
Are third-party services (social network feeds, social wall, carousels, google maps, etc.) not used for convenience to compensate for the lack of content production resources ?
UI
Does the service's use make it possible to consider software or hardware configurations that have less impact on the environment ?
UI
Does the user experience take into account possible changes to the service (adding / removing features) ?
UI
Are all the components of the interface the subject of special attention in terms of Sustainable IT impact, while respecting accessibility rules ?
UI
Are solutions without a "graphical" interface forseen for certain functionalities, in order to offer alternatives to visual design in the interface ?
Technology
Is a Sustainable IT-oriented configuration space made available to the user, to limit the number of presentation elements as much as possible ?
Use
Is the dematerialization of the service complete, and if the production of paper documents is essential, is it designed to limit its impact to the lowest possible ?
Use
Is the user able to manage activation and use of third party solutions ?
Methodology
Is a systemic approach method implemented, handled by the actors and associated with tools ?
Methodology
Has the solution been prototyped upstream, with the user journey and interactions ?
Methodology
Have user's behavior and feedback been examined to best meet their needs ?
Methodology
Is the design documented (functionally and technically), the design deliverables must be comprehensible by the project team and transferable to the development team ?
Technology
Have the most frequent searches been investigated and submited so that they are either cached or displayed to the user without sending unnecessary requests or clicks. ?
Use
Is the path taken to access the service as quick and as simple as possible ?
Methodology
Has a continuous improvement process been deployed ?
UI
Is a media management / use policy in place to reduce their impact, with criteria for media compression and formats ?
UI
Are the number of fonts and the variants of fonts called (weight, characters used in the project) limited ?
Technology
Can the functionality be offered without calling external scripts or libraries (JS, AJAX, ...) ?
Technology
Does the target functionality require calling an iFrame ?
UI
Can the native system features and components match as needed ?
UI
Are videos and animations only used when they add value to the user ?
UI
Are the images optimized for their functions ?
Pictures
Have the images been compressed upstream in a format suitable for viewing ?
Pictures
What images are really meaningful and useful for understanding the service (examples: logo, images, links, contractual images, etc.) ?
Pictures
What images can we avoid (not useful for understanding the service) ?
Text
Can text replace certain types of images (icons, picto ...) ?
Pictures
Is an alternative to images always available ?
Animated content
Is the information overlay removed ?
Text
Has the impact of internationalisation (multi-languages, etc.) been assessed ?
Text
Is there a limit to the number of different fonts ?
Text
Do you prefer system fonts ?
Forms
Is the configuration of the form minimal (so as not to overload the code for unhelpful styles) ?
Forms
Does the form allow the user to disable dynamic functions (ex: auto completion) ?
Forms
Are the forms useful (example: not creating an account for the purchase of a product / service - e-commerce) ?
Forms
Are robots banned and unsolicited access treated by inexpensive solutions (captcha vs "addition", ....) ?
Forms
When selection lists are available, are they limited to values relevant to the service user ?
Videos
Can the information carried by the video be replaced by an alternative (computer graphics ...) ?
Animated content
Have you limited the animations ?
Animated content
Is the use of Flash removed, replaced by another effect ?
Animated content
Are active content triggered only on user action ?
Animated content
Is the animated content on the visible part of the screen (no animation triggered under the active part of the screen) ?
Animated content
Is the duration of animated content that has been validated as necessary optimized ?
Videos
Which videos are really meaningful and useful for understanding the service (examples: logo, images, links, contractual images, etc.) ?
Videos
What videos can we avoid (not useful for understanding the service) ?
Videos
Have the alternatives to streaming (vs local video) been evaluated ?
Videos
Is the duration of videos (validated as necessary) optimized ?
Videos
Is broadcasting live sessions useful ?
Sounds
Can the sound of the video be rendered as text ?
Sounds / Videos
Are the CODECS of the sounds compressed to the maximum ?
Life cycle
Does the use of the service exclude certain software or hardware configurations ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Does the use of the service make it possible to envisage software or hardware configurations that have less impact on the environment ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Does the added value of the framework justify the weighting of the application ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Does the frequency of use of the feature require it to be available all the time or can it be updated in the background (batch) ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Is the app quick to start / stop ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Are algorithms and processing optimized in the application ?
Life cycle
Is the ability to evolve / modify the application studied ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Is a compiled language used for performance and / or security aspects ?
Software Design
Are the benchmarks known, kept up to date, and made available to the entire project team ?
Software design
Is the inventory of the input data made available for reuse in other projects ?
Software design
Are the functionalities linked to regulated data processing (health, banking, etc.) validated in terms of interoperability ?
Software design
Is the implementation of new services linked to regulated data necessary and, if so, does it build on the base of available services ?
Life cycle
Are there any meetings planned so that the urbanization unit assesses the evolutions of the IS with regard to the design, the evolution put in place ?
Software design
Are all the technical equipment used by the service identified ?
Life cycle
Does the organization's master plan propose Responsible Digital objectives and actions that will influence architectural design or urbanization solutions ?
Are the Sustainable IT goals qualified ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
For each equipment, are the characteristics available ?
Life cycle
Is each function of the service understood in terms of its importance in the service ?
Life cycle
Do secondary functions also have a lower impact on the environmental footprint ?
Life cycle
Are each of the life cycle phases (Start-up, maturity, shutdown) identified with specific actions ?
Life cycle
Are LCA data reused in the event of an adaptation of an existing service ?
Sustainable IT Purchase
Is the duration of digital service support sufficient to minimize equipment renewal ?
Software design
Is documentary production researched / reviewed / used upstream of the process and produced downstream to be re-used in the following projects ?
user Experience
Are the proposed functions really related to a use ?
development standards
Is each function of the service understood in terms of its importance in the service ?
development standards
Do secondary functions also have a lower impact on the environmental footprint ?
development standards
Are you using proven development standards ?
development standards
Is a quality methodology in place ?
development standards
Are LCA data reused in the event of an adaptation of an existing service ?
Technology
Is it the functionality that guides the choices rather than the allure of trendy technology ?
API
Are the functionalities covered by local actions (client side) privileged rather than API exchanges ?
Flux
Do you use caching mechanisms to limit exchanges ?
API
Is the data fed back by the APIs really only the data that the application needs when it is requested ?
API
Is an openSource alternative available for APIs ?
Technology
Do the libraries used allow you to take only the components that are actually useful ?
Technology
Are unused dependencies identified and removed ?
Technology
Couldn't the expected functionality be implemented with the native capabilities of the browser ?
Technology
Is an openSource alternative available ?
Technology
Are all the technical equipment used by the service identified ?
Technology
For each equipment, are the characteristics available ?
Technology
Are the functionalities related to regulated data processing (health, personal, banking) validated in terms of interoperability ?
networks
Are the latest technical advances used when they really help reduce impact ?
user experience
Is the backward compatibility range defined ?
Life cycle
Are each of these life cycle phases identified with specific actions ?
user experience
Is a light version of the service for older equipment or limited network access conditions available ?
user experience
Will older equipment remain compatible, and within what limits ?
development standards
Don't the functionalities of the service go beyond user needs ?
development standards
Are the logs free of unprocessed errors ?
development standards
Are dead codes cleared ?
development standards
Is a compiled language used for performance and / or security aspects ?
user Experience
Are the reference elements known, kept up to date, and made available to the entire project team ?
user Experience
Is the inventory of the input data made available for reuse in other projects ?
Flux
Do you limit the flows exchanged ?
Flux
Is there a follow-up of the number of requests ?
Flux
Are the exchange volumes evaluated and reduced with the most relevant technical treatments (compression / minification) ?
Flux
Are there duplicate files ?
Flux
How many different domains are used ?
Technology
Are the sensors being used as needed, rather than constantly ?
Technology
Are the pause functions available ?
Technology
Is the inaccessibility of a sensor, linked to the equipment or to the user's choice, treated to allow the service to be functional nonetheless (if possible) ?
Technology
Are predictive algorithms in place to avoid the use of physical sensors ?
transfers
Do you inform users of the size constraints and accepted file format ?
Technical User Experience
Is the frequency of the animation appropriate for the functionality ?
transfers
Do uploads only allow the list of authorized file types ?
transfers
Are the images to be uploaded properly resized and converted to a thin client-side format before transfer ?
transfers
Are the exchanged files compressed ?
UI
Is a clean version available for prints ?
user Experience
Is the service suitable for different accessibility media formats ?
UI
Have the different image formats available been evaluated to select only the most effective ?
UI
Are image resizing processed upstream and statically (server side) ?
UI
Is the definition of the image reduced and adapted to its objective (illustration, contractual, ...) ?
UI
Do all images have a text alternative ?
UI
Are alternative image formats made available through srcset ?
UI
Are CSS sprites implemented to limit the flow of image fetching ?
UI
Is formatting in css preferred, to limit the use of images ?
UI
Does the lazy load bring a gain (weight of the page, CPU resource) ?
UI
Is the definition of the sound suitable ?
UI
Is it really a user action that triggers the "play" ?
UI
Are videos or animations outside the active area automatically paused / stopped ?
UI
Is a video the only solution for the expected illustration ?
UI
Are you reducing the number of pictograms used in the service ?
UI
Do you limit the number of fonts loaded for the service ?
UI
If printing, is an ink saving font installed ?
UI
Are the fonts used not loaded only for a small number of objects ?
UI
Is the service developed in accordance with RGAA recommendations ?
UI
Are the animations necessary, desired by the user ?
user Experience
Is a CSS alternative available for an animation ?
UI
Are cartography objects, animations, videos presented in a static mode ?
UI
Can positioning tracking be satisfied with a lower frequency ?
user Experience
Are unnecessary searches limited by local search engines ?
UI
Is the size of data stored on user device limited ?
Data
Is the number of requests kept to a minimum (no looping) ?
Data
Is an alternative to SQL queries used when possible (local storage or similar) ?
Data
Do implemented queries use joins rather than multiple queries ?
Data
Can data be backed up incrementally ?
Data
Is the removal of obsolete data being managed ?
Data
Are database indexes consistent with operations ?
Data
Is an alternative to the relational model being considered ?
Data
Is a NoSql solution more efficient than its relational equivalent ?
Data
Have the different data access solutions (queries, triggers, stored procedures) been tested ?
Data
Are EXPLAIN clauses used on "Slow queries" to optimize indexes ?
Data
Are the slow query detection thresholds set effectively ?
Data
Are "live" and "dead" data handled differently (eg: Slow storage for "dead" data) ?
Data
Is frequently accessed data available in RAM ?
Data
Are data replications between multiple Database Engine (Cluster) instances appropriate for sensitivity and availability requirement ?
Data processing
Does the data have an expiration date when it is deleted ?
Data processing
Is sensitive data collected ?
Data processing
Is the data collected really useful ?
Data processing
Does the API provide limits, filters and the list of fields to return ?
security
Is sensitive user data secure ?
Data processing
Does regulated data (personal, health, financial) comply with the recommendations for structuring these categories of data ?
Quality
Is the documentation of the functionality available to enable its reuse ?
Performance
Is the web server used asynchronous and multi-threaded ?
Performance
Has the dependency tree of the integrated components been evaluated ?
Performance
Can dependencies be reduced by using an alternative component ?
Performance
Is the user informed of a processing in progress in the background ?
Performance
Has the integration of asynchronous processing been evaluated ?
Performance
Are unused resources freed up as quickly as possible ?
Performance
Is a VM necessary as opposed to a container solution ?
Performance
Does service availability require redundancy ?
Architecture
Do interactions between components benefit from caching mechanisms ?
Architecture
Are the browser caches not being blocked by the framework or technology used ?
Architecture
Is there a lighter framework / library that meets the functional need ?
Architecture
Is an Open Source solution available for the functional need ?
security
Are the versions of the components used tracked and deployed ?
security
Is the security implemented justified with regard to the operations carried out ?
Data processing
Is the level of logs adapted to the environment ?
Data processing
Are temporary files included in the "logrotate" ?
Flux
Is the data exchanged compressed before transmission ?
Flux
Is pagination used on data exchanges ?
Flux
Is the number of requests between the client and the server kept to a minimum ?
Flux
Does the data exchanged match the immediate need only ?
Flux
Are user notifications necessary ?
IU
Is SSO implemented when possible ?
Life cycle
What would be my dev reflex, to take into account the life cycle ?
Life cycle
Does each stakeholder have the latitude to make decisions that may influence the environmental footprint ?
Quality
Is code analysis used in the continuous integration process ?
Quality
Are code quality metrics being tracked ?
Quality
Are functionality test reports available and tracked ?
Life cycle
Have the tools for monitoring Sustainable IT performance been identified and made available to developers ?
Life cycle
Has an analysis of the application's consumption profile been performed ?
Life cycle
Does each version deployed follow the same process for qualifying for Sustainable IT performance ?
Life cycle
Is the envisioned functionality useful ?
Life cycle
Are the Sustainable IT aspects propagated and maintained across all stakeholders ?
Life cycle
Was a benchmark on the environmental criteria carried out for the choice of the infrastructure supplier ?
Life cycle
Does the design process / tools integrate the treatment of Sustainable IT requirements ?
Architecture
Does the sizing of infrastructure resources follow the life of the application ?
Architecture
Is the technical architecture permanently in line with the activity of the service ?
Architecture
Is a summary of use cases of the features available ?
Architecture
Are de-provisioning operations expressed at design time ?
Architecture
Are all the technical equipment used by the service identified ?
Architecture
Are the characteristics available for each equipment (year of construction, environmental performance data...) ?
Life cycle
Is each function of the service understood in terms of its importance in the service ?
Life cycle
Do secondary functions also have a lower impact on the environmental footprint ?
Life cycle
Is each phase of the life cycle identified with specific actions ?
Life cycle
IsLCA data reused in the event of an adaptation of an existing service ?
Location
Is the waste from the data center recovered or recycled ?
Energy
Is PUE (Power Usage Effectivness) available ?
Location
Does cooling affect groundwater ?
Location
Does the location of the data center affect the ecosystem nearby ?
Location
Is the quality of the water degraded by its use in the data center ?
Location
Does the water used come from the drinking water supply ?
Location
Is the data center causing noise pollution ?
Energy
Is any of the produced indirect energy (heat) reused ?
Energy
Is the building LEED / BDM certified or equivalent ?
Energy
Is the cooling optimized based on accurate temperature analysis ?
Energy
How and on what criteria is cooling optimized ?
Energy
Does the data center infrastructure take cooling constraints into account ?
Energy
Are the server power supplies efficient ?
Energy
Is the occupancy rate of the datacenter rooms optimized to improve the energy balance ?
Energie
Is WUE (Water Usage Effectivness) available ?
Energie
Does the provider subscribe to best practives for datacenters ?
security
Is the datacenter at least Tier 3 ?
security
Does the operator have several interconnected datacenters that are more than 100 km away ?
security
Is the datacenter certification appropriate for the need and the geographic location (seismic, flooding) ?
security
Does the physical access control to the site use biometric data ?
security
Does the data center provide a locally based digital vault solution ?
security
Do the processes put in place for the prevention of incidents take into account the non-degradability of servers and equipment ?
Social
Is the environmental impact of implementing each function appropriate to its importance ?
Social
Has each phase of the life cycle been identified with specific actions ?
Social
Is data from previous studies available and kept up to date ?