Presentation of the AGIT White Paper on ecodesign by Caroline Vateau at ICTFOOTPRINT.eu workshop in Paris https://ictfootprint.eu/en/events/ictfootprinteu-workshop-event

1. Lundi 24 septembre 2018
WP Ecodesign of digital services
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2. Introduction
NGO, Association loi 1901 gathering compagnies and third parts
involved in the sustainable development of digital services, network
and infrastructures
Federate– Incentive– Comit
DNA: Transparency & openmid
Consultancy Compagny – Sustainable by and for ITC
DNA: Environement as a contributor of innovation and differenciation
Initative managed by Occitanie Chamber of Commerce
Ecodesign of digital services
Publications
Ecodesign of digital services
Survey on implementation of Green IT Best Pratices 2015 & 2017
Environmental KPI in datacenter
Is the Cloud Green?

3. Environmental impacts of the digital transition:
Triple question with a triple problem
1. There is several environemental impacts
2. Impacts are located at all the stage of the lifecycle
3. Numerous actors along a complex value chain
• (4. How implement an efficient solution?)
• To be efficient a global approach and a change in
posture are required
=> Ecodesign of digital services

4. http://alliancegreenit.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc%20AGIT/LB-ecoconception-
numerique.pdf

5. White paper Ecodesign of digital services
Keys:
Definition of fonction and fonctional unit
Consider all the stages of the service
lifecycle
Assessment of the environmental impacts
(LCA)
Consider the 3 parts of the physical
archtecture
Communication with interested parts
Environmental improvement without
polution transfert
Digital services = association of
Enduser devices
Telecom
network
Datacenter Softwares

6. Life cycle analysis of a digital service
Digital service
Function
association of
Devices
Network
Datacenter
Sotfware
Others digital
services
Life cycle inventory
Functional unit
Extraction,
construction,
assembly
Input/output during
the use stage
End of life
Multicriteria environmental
assessment

7. Benefits
Reduction of the environmental impacts
Improvement of the enduser experience
Cost reduction (capex/opex)
Innovation & development of new sustainables standards
Communication on the environmental impacts
Communication with all the part of the value chain

8. #GreenConcept
Ecodesign of digital services
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9. #GreenConcept
OCCITANIE REGION & DIGITAL
▪ 10,000 digital businesses generating 50,000 direct jobs.
▪ 2 cities part of FrenchTech: Montpellier & Toulouse
▪ Presence of digital clusters, leading research clusters, incubators and accelerators
▪ 99% of companies have less than 50 employees
▪ Green IT initiatives (The Green IT Day, 4 editions)
▪ Collective actions with on eco-design of products and energy savings in industry
▪ 2016: action #GreenConcept (ecodesign of digital services) laureate of the call for
projects Economy Circular of the ADEME and the Occitanie Region

10. #GreenConcept
Methodology
The main target of #GreenConcept is to help 30 small & medium company to
implement the principles of ecodesign into the development of their digital services
▪ 3 sessions of 10 companies between 2017 and 2019
▪ Each company benefits from 7 days of individual support in digital eco-design + 3
collective workshops (pool of experts : Neutreo, GreenIt.fr, Codde-BureauVeritas)
▪ Minimal financial participation of companies thanks to the support of ADEME, the
Occitanie region and the CCI Occitanie.
▪ Valorisation of results at national level and edition of a guide of good practices
▪ 1000 companies sensitized on digital eco-design during the 3 years of
#GreenConcept action

11. #GreenConcept

12. #GreenConcept
Results & conclusions
50 Improvement actions
High potential for improvement: Factor 4
Ecodesign of digital services could easily be implemented in SME
Leads to business development, increase exposure
This approach should be mandatory on news projects
This approach prevent pollution transfert
Business model Communication Devices Network Datacenter Software

13. #GreenConcept
Thanks for your attention
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