Rapport moral 2024

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We present to you the 2024 moral report of the Boavizta association, produced by its members and its Board of Directors.

Statutory Purpose

Faced with environmental challenges (climate change, depletion of non-renewable natural resources, biodiversity collapse, etc.), the association aims to ensure the reliability, simplification, and acceleration of the evaluation and management of the environmental impact of digital technologies within organizations. This is achieved through all means, particularly by co-constructing and disseminating “commons,” expert and updated resources under free/open licenses: information/recommendations, evaluation methodologies, data repositories, calculation engines, tools/software, etc.

Values / Mission

OUR PURPOSE

The central cause of our community

We, citizens and actors in the digital world, are aware of the risks and consequences of exceeding planetary boundaries, as well as the accelerating role of digital technologies and their societal impacts. We are committed to reducing the environmental impact of digital technologies within organizations by designing, pooling, and sharing digital commons.

OUR OBJECTIVES

What we aim to achieve

Enable public and private organizations to truly transform and take responsibility (whether voluntarily or regulated) by aligning their digital strategies with approaches compatible with planetary boundaries.

Become an interprofessional association whose commons become international benchmarks, contributing to accelerating the reduction of both direct and indirect environmental impacts of digital technologies and influencing the trajectory of these impacts.

Materialize the environmental impact of digital transformations through the creation, standardization, and dissemination of commons in a systemic, auditable, standardized, automated, and empowering approach.

OUR VALUES

The heart of our collaborations

A Community of Doers

Beyond lofty speeches, it is by getting our hands dirty that we progress together. We encourage initiative-taking and welcome any effort aimed at improving the evaluation, understanding, and reduction of environmental impacts related to digital technologies. The undertaken efforts should aim to create resources that are accessible, usable, and understandable by the widest audience.

Open-Mindedness Coupled with Scientific Rigour

At Boavizta, debates and exchange of ideas are common. We strive to rely on solid arguments to foster collective intelligence and even a few awakenings!

Impact as a Guiding Thread

The desire to achieve concrete results and tangible impact underpins all our actions and interactions. We constantly remind ourselves of this imperative with kindness in our exchanges.

Serving the Public Interest

We act for a cause greater than ourselves while embracing the diversity of identities and profiles. Our productions are open (open-source, open-data, creative commons) and, although they may indirectly feed commercial initiatives, in compliance with licenses, their goal is to democratize and systematize a critical and informed approach to technologies.

OUR VISION

In 5 years,

  • Boavizta is an internationally recognized inter-professional association that helps facilitate and accelerate the evaluation of the direct and indirect environmental impacts of digital technologies. It redirects public and private organizations towards technologies compatible with planetary boundaries and respectful of life.
  • Its commons make it possible to objectively assess the relevance of digitization through a systemic, auditable, standardized, automated, and empowering approach.
  • Its actions contribute to standardizing commons, propagating/integrating them within organizations, and genuinely transforming and making organizations accountable (whether voluntarily or regulated) by aligning digital strategies with the organization’s low-impact goals.
  • Boavizta helps influence the global environmental trajectory of digital technologies towards greater sustainability.

OUR BELIEFS

We, the members of Boavizta, are convinced

  • Of the importance of continuing to develop methodologies, data, and tools to eventually cover the majority of use cases (direct and indirect impacts).
  • But also that achieving our mission requires standardization, rallying a critical mass of promoters united and focused around a limited set of well-identified commons.
  • It also involves propagating/integrating commons within organizations and their systematic use in discussions and decision-making around digital technologies.
  • However, awareness and knowledge do not necessarily lead to action (as highlighted by IPCC reports). The propagation and integration of commons within organizations and the necessary actions they imply may face multiple obstacles, starting with growth projects and outdated business models.
  • To overcome these obstacles, there is a need to create desirable alternative imaginaries where digital technologies play a different role and contribute to relevant and binding regulations.
  • We can contribute to these changes while preserving our DNA, our uniqueness, and our differentiators. We need a broad and strong community whose collective intelligence will help identify and implement new solutions in this context.
  • Boavizta’s historical values remain relevant and up-to-date: sharing ideas, methodologies, data, and tools, scientific rigor, trust, and cooperation.

OUR MISSIONS

Boavizta contributes to:

  • Making the evaluation of the environmental impact of digital technologies within organizations accessible and helping the public and members build their skills.
  • Producing the key missing commons in the ecosystem (methodologies, data, tools, etc.).
  • Standardizing and making them visible.
  • Propagating/integrating them within organizations.

Additionally:

  • Defining relevant and binding regulations.
  • Building desirable alternative imaginaries around digital technologies and new responsible business models.
  • Helping decision-makers redirect their organizations and align with ambitious trajectories by deeply and radically questioning digital technologies.

Financial Report

Available in a dedicated document.

Members

As of January 3, 2025, Boavizta had 242 members in the Baserow database (221 with emails), including:

  • 204 in France:
    • 153 in Paris or the Paris region.
    • 51 outside Paris and the Paris region.
  • 35 outside France.
  • 19 whose preferred language is exclusively English.

76 members voted during the election on January 31, 2025.

Here are the detailed statistics:

Country Members
Belgium 2
Canada 4
Finland 1
France 204
Germany 1
India 1
Italy 2
Martinique 1
Netherlands 1
New Zealand 1
Spain 2
Sweden 1
Switzerland 5
Tunisia 1
United Kingdom 8
United States 3
French department Members
1 1
4 1
6 5
13 1
14 1
21 1
25 1
26 1
29 2
31 5
33 4
34 5
35 6
37 3
38 7
39 1
44 11
45 2
59 4
63 1
64 2
67 1
69 7
71 1
73 1
74 1
75 51
76 3
77 2
78 9
83 1
84 1
91 8
92 25
93 3
94 2
97 2
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Preferred languages Members
Français/French 101
Français/French,English/Anglais,Spanish/Espagnol 4
English/Anglais 19
English/Anglais,Français/French 45
Français/French,English/Anglais 52
English/Anglais,Français/French,Spanish/Espagnol 1
Français/French,Spanish/Espagnol 1

During the year 2024, Boavizta members gathered notably during the bi-weekly Friday morning meetings.

The peak participation was reached in June 2024 with approximately 70 participants.

Member participation is also reflected in written exchanges on our Mattermost chat tool. We have a PUBLIC chat accessible to non-members (recent and still underutilized) as well as a TEAM chat for members.

Here are the statistics for the TEAM chat:

  • 269 active users
  • 47 public communication channels created and 12 private ones
  • 30,558 messages exchanged

Mattermost Statistics “Team” Boavizta Internal

Public/Private Partner Relations

PlanetTechCare

Boavizta is a partner of PlanetTechCare and, as such, participates in at least one workshop per year (or more).

On October 17th, Alexis Bonnerat, Antoine Lagier, and Nathalie Otte presented the results of the survey “Evaluation of the Environmental Footprint of Public Cloud” during an online PlanetTechCare workshop.

What is the maturity level of organizations? What feedback exists? What best practices are available? What tools? What use cases?

Evaluating the environmental footprint of public cloud services is a topic closely tied to the cloud usage of organizations. Boavizta aimed to gather these contextual elements through five themes:

  • Cloud Adoption (CSPs used, %workload in the cloud, maturity & adoption)
  • GreenIT/Responsible Digital Initiatives (measurement initiatives, IT carbon footprint, organizational maturity regarding measurement)
  • Evaluation of the Environmental Impact of Cloud (bottom-up or top-down approach, sponsors, motivation factors)
  • Evaluation Practices & Tools (tools and methodological guides used, expectations from providers)
  • Feedback & Decisions

On April 16th, Océane Puech and Julien Rouzé presented “Responsible Digital: How to Engage Your Management?”

Responsible Digital initiatives (at least Green IT) are multiplying within organizations. However, some remain reluctant to dedicate time and budget to this cause.

As a partner of PlanetTechCare, Boavizta conducted a quantitative and qualitative market study with 85 organizations. After analysis, Boavizta compiled all these insights into a publication and offers to share them with you.

This argument is aimed at those who wish to convince others of the importance of implementing a digital sobriety and measurement approach within their organization.

GreenTechForum

This year, unlike the previous two editions, Boavizta did not participate in the organization of GreenTechForum 2024.

Why? Here are some feedback points from previous editions:

  • A limited number of conferences, many proposals/opinions, and an overly consensual editorial process without a strong vision, leading to diluted/superficial themes.
  • Roundtable formats with too many speakers, leaving little room for in-depth discussions.
  • Limited consideration of our suggestions for improvements (e.g., tagging expertise levels for conferences).
  • Low visibility for the association or generation of contacts/memberships during past events.
  • Time-consuming participation, requiring prioritization against other association activities.

Nevertheless, our members were still present at the event.

Alexis Bonnerat participated in the conference “Measuring the Environmental Footprint of Digital Technologies: Advances and Challenges,” where he discussed the results of the Cloud study.

Ambassadors and Inter-Association Meetings

The French and international Responsible Digital (NR) ecosystem is rich with multiple associations developing interesting activities. Unfortunately, although some members are already involved in other associations, we know little about each other, thus likely missing opportunities for cross-collaborations.

To address this, one meeting per quarter will be dedicated to bringing together four associations (3 + Boavizta), starting on 28/02 with Agit, Point de MIR, and the Shift Project.

Furthermore, to build strong ties with associations and capitalize on our respective project work, a dedicated initiative has been created.

RGESN Consortium

The Responsible Digital ecosystem has gathered several times following numerous discussions in the Ethical Designers’ Slack channel in response to the publication of RGESN v1.1. One of the promises was a platform for exchange to improve this RGESN, but nothing has progressed since May 2024.
Driven by Mathieu Delemme and Christophe Clouzeau’s community-linking work, these various associations have come together with the ARCEP’s agreement to establish monitoring and improvement of the RGESN. The real work will begin in 2025.

The associations: INR, Ethical Designers, AGIT, Association Green IT, Boavizta.

More information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uyNlQNI7ye4s9S3EXz1LWtDMkHurLZ4p4thdDl0ErR4/edit?usp=sharing

Presentations at Conferences and Forums

January 2024:

February 2024:

  • Ecodesign Day (Ethical Designers): The Proper Use of Measurement - Julien Rouzé, Youen Chéné
  • Ecodesign Day (Ethical Designers): Participation in the roundtable on environmental impact measurement in digital technologies, Benoit Petit

March 2024:

  • Flowcon: The Proper Use of Measurement - Julien Rouzé, Youen Chéné
    April 2024:

May 2024:

June 2024:

  • Green Tech Forum Brussels: Boavizta Presentation + Sustainable IT, How to Get Your Management on Board? - Julien Rouzé, Gillo Malpart, Youen Chéné

July 2024:

August 2024:

September 2024:

  • We Love Speed: Boavizta — State of the Art of Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Content Websites - Youen Chéné
  • Big Data Expo: Boavizta - Data Management and Sustainability in the Cloud - Emmanuelle Olivié-Paul and Alice Drahon

October 2024:

  • FinOps x GreenOps France Meetup: Feedback on Public Cloud Impact Evaluation by Its Users - Francois Moriamez
  • Planet Tech’Care Workshop: Presentation of the Results of Public Cloud Environmental Impact Evaluation - Antoine Lagier, Alexis Bonnerat, and Nathalie Otte

November 2024:

  • Green Tech Forum: Conference “Measuring the Environmental Footprint of Digital Technologies: Advances and Challenges” - Alexis Bonnerat

December 2024:

  • Normandie.AI: How to Evaluate the Environmental Impact of AI and Machine Learning? - Youen Chéné

Association Projects

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Objective

The Board of Directors is a group of individuals who assist the association in structuring and developing.

Achievements 2024

The Board of Directors meets every month for one hour and discusses on a dedicated Mattermost channel.

In 2024, the Board of Directors consisted of:

Emmanuelle Olivie-Paul, Océane Puech, Murielle Timsit, Raja Trabelsi, Jessica Dourcy, Valentine Roux, Gregory Cauchie, Youen Chéné, Laurent Eskenazi, Eric Fourboul, Arnaud Gueguen, Benoit Petit

Here are some of the projects we have carried out over the past two years:

  • Election of 2 co-presidents (Eric / Laurent) + 2 treasurers (Raja / Youen)
  • Writing a manifesto
  • Publishing internal regulations
  • Defining a vision
  • Establishing a process for validating public posts
  • Decision to open the association to English-speaking members
  • Opening a bank account (Creditcoop)
  • Setting up membership fees
  • Implementing skills sponsorship
  • Creating and updating a roadmap of topics for bi-weekly presentations
  • Involvement in the selection committee for the Green Tech Forum 2023 conferences
  • Automating the onboarding process
  • Implementing tools such as Mattermost, Wiki, BBB, Gsuite, Baserow, Zotero, Balotilo, a YouTube channel, and Peertube.

Challenges Faced

In addition to a lack of time given our transformation ambitions, the Board of Directors also struggled with an unstructured decision-making process. Reversals on some decisions led us to consider participatory decision-making systems for the coming year.

Perspectives for 2025

In 2025, all members of the Board of Directors will be renewed. It will be up to the new Board to define its orientations and priorities for the coming years.

HACKATHON

Objective

Bring together industry experts for a day of innovation and collaboration where we share ideas and develop innovative solutions.

Achievements 2024

2 hackathons organized:

  • May 24, 2024: at Orange Gardens (Chatillon)

    • 30 participants
    • 43 projects
      • BoaviztAPI
        • Platform layer implementation
        • API data format
        • Lambda-izing the API
      • Machine Learning
        • Impact reporting of Machine Learning models
      • E-footprint
        • Simple estimation of application impacts
      • CSRD & Environmental Impact of Digital
        • Analysis of Microsoft’s Carbon Footprint and mapping with ESRS 1 indicators (climate change)
        • Analysis of SBTi updates and invalidation of Microsoft and Amazon’s trajectory

  • November 15, 2024: at WeScale (Paris 9th)

    • 31 participants
    • 4 workshops
      • Energizta
        • Refactoring and tool maintenance
      • BoAmps
        • Data model: standardizing energy consumption reporting for AIs
      • BoavizAPI
        • Updating electricity impact factors (reference data updates)
        • Evaluating storage as a service
      • Artificial Intelligence

Perspectives for 2025

Goals:

  • 4 hackathons per year (March, June, September, December)
  • One English-speaking group to test interest
  • Maintain a mix of tech and non-tech topics

MONITORING AND PRESENTATIONS

Objective

Share state-of-the-art knowledge to enable everyone to upskill and better understand the ecosystem.

Achievements 2024

19 presentations delivered:

  • High-level model of digital service impacts
  • Tech4Change Chair
  • Green IT Tools Landscape
  • Attributional & consequential email study: beyond technical optimization with a broader approach
  • W3C Sustainability
  • Evaluating SAAS services through datacenter consumption analysis
  • Initial feedback on CSRD and its application to the digital sector (1/2)
  • Impact of using a remote work solution on greenhouse gas emissions
  • Sustainability reporting: further feedback on CSRD and its application to the digital sector (2/2)
  • LCA as Code
  • e-footprint: presentation of the interface
  • From avoided emissions to system thinking approaches: how to support complex environmental decision-making
  • BoaviztAPI: A Bottom-Up Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Cloud Services
  • Evaluation of CO2 emissions of Openstack projects at the University of Strasbourg datacenter
  • Evaluating the impacts of mobile websites/applications: Greenspector methodology
  • Joular: measuring energy from source code to connected devices
  • Challenges in evaluating the energy cost of applications (research article context)
  • EROOM: how optimization can reduce the environmental impact of digital technologies by 4x
  • Carenage: Evaluate and decrease the environmental impacts of your backend software

Survey on future presentations:

1- Which topics on environmental impact interest you the most?

2- Which topics on data centers/cloud/network interest you the most?

3- Which topics on devices and applications interest you the most?

4- Which topics on measurement tools interest you the most?

5- Which sector interests you the most?

6- Overall, which categories of topics interest you the most?

Monitoring in bi-weekly meetings and Mattermost

Challenges Faced

Availability (Laurent)

Perspectives for 2025

Involve others in organizing presentations.

Plan presentations in English and French coherently based on the survey results.

  • Several topics remain to be addressed: to be qualified based on the availability of experts who can work on these topics.
  • Publication of 2024 work in the PCG by the ABC team.

IT Sustainability Tools Repository

Objective

Provide a contributive (open) tool to inventory tools or applications for evaluating the environmental impacts of digital systems.

Allow review or filtering based on objective criteria. Reference as many tools in the ecosystem as possible.

Achievements 2024

  • Defined a data model.
  • Referenced tools to be inventoried/evaluated.
  • Developed a v1 (database).
  • Developed a v2 Web version enabling consultation and external contributions.
  • Automated validation of submitted data formats.
  • Initial evaluations and referencing of tools (~80).

Challenges Faced

  • Difficulty in establishing a common model to cover the variety of tools evaluated.
  • Lack of time for application development; technical complexity in making public contributions to the dataset easy.
  • Lack of time for reviewing the referenced tools.

Perspectives for 2025

  • Review and update the referenced tools.
  • Communication effort (visibility and user manual).
  • Develop a v3 leveraging new Datami components (improve usability).

BOAVIZTAPI

Objective

  • Develop an API to access Boavizta’s work on evaluating components, equipment, services, and digital infrastructures with a multi-criteria approach over the entire lifecycle.

Achievements 2024

  • Significant increase in contributors (@davidkopp, @Shillaker, @JX5671, @valentinchaud, @cosmastech, @tibosmn).
  • See release notes: https://github.com/Boavizta/boaviztapi/releases.
  • 315 commits (398 in 2023).
  • 26 forks and 76 stars to date.

Throughout the year:

From 2022 to the end of 2024:

Traffic:

  • Requests not only from Europe but also from the US and India.
  • 7k requests in the last 24 hours.
  • Requires further analysis to confirm annual trends.

Challenges Faced

  • Lack of a co-maintainer.

Perspectives for 2025

  • Find a maintainer to assist or take the lead, allowing David to focus on his thesis.

ENERGIZTA

Objective

Achievements 2024

  • Took over the codebase during the November hackathon.

Challenges Faced

  • Lack of bandwidth among contributors.

Perspectives for 2025

  • Refactor the codebase and deploy a data collection infrastructure under the association’s name.

BOAGENT

Objective

  • Enable the evaluation of the impacts of a physical server (or a virtual machine in the future) and its applications as monitoring metrics (local agent).

Achievements 2024

  • Codebase taken over by Benjamin Dromard @ hubblo (not yet a member).
  • Maintenance and updates resumed regularly.
  • 243 commits in 2024, compared to 8 in 2023.

Throughout the year:

From 2022 to the end of 2024:

Challenges Faced

Perspectives for 2025

  • Expand the tool’s capabilities to attribute lifecycle impacts to different components and software processes.

CLOUD SCANNER

Objective

Facilitate the evaluation of environmental impacts related to the use of on-demand cloud services, primarily on public cloud infrastructures (e.g., AWS, Azure), by automating this evaluation.

  • Address the lack of reporting and transparency from major vendors.
  • Enable real-time monitoring (dashboard, historical data) and simulate the impacts of an architecture before deployment.
  • Open the door to a greenops approach by integrating environmental metrics into other decision-making tools.

Achievements 2024

  • Multiple application releases, focusing on documentation, usability, and security.
  • Improved dashboard ergonomics and presentation.
  • Added export capabilities for inventory and simulations.
  • Support for all AWS regions and instances.
  • Ability to filter by tags and added individual metrics per resource.
  • Julien Nioche joined as a co-maintainer.
  • Communication effort on release announcements.

Challenges Faced

  • Lack of transparency from cloud providers, complicating impact modeling.
  • Insufficient data on managed services and GPUs used in AI.

Perspectives for 2025

Evaluation on the Cloud Provider side:

  • Popularize/democratize ADEME’s PCR Cloud.
  • Extend pilot deployments.
  • Compare evaluations between BoaviztAPI, PCR Cloud, IaaS/SaaS assessments with monetary ratios (by Eric).
  • Expand coverage of supported services and cloud providers.

TOOL COORDINATION

Objective

  • Coordinate the development of various tools proposed as deliverables by the association.

Achievements 2024

  • Tool coordination is now done on the dedicated channel based on specific tool needs but is no longer a project-driven initiative.

Challenges Faced

Perspectives for 2025

  • Maintain the link between tools on the Boavizta chat.
  • Include English-speaking contributors.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Objective

Objective 1: Organize knowledge.

Objective 2: Facilitate skill development.

Objective 3: Automate onboarding.

Objective 4: Promote Boavizta.

Achievements 2024

  • Onboarding:

    • Improved onboarding process.

  • Communication:

    • Structured a communication strategy.
    • Developed a Communication section.
    • Created a communication calendar (for the first 6 months).
    • Designed a Canva template for blog article illustrations.

  • Training:

    • Developed an LCA training program.
    • Produced the first video of this program and drafted texts for several others.

Challenges Faced

  • Availability of the lead from summer 2024, followed by other members.
  • This initiative encompassed many support topics for the association that needed rapid improvement given its growth.

Perspectives for 2025

  • Dissolve as-is.
  • Transfer the Communication part to “INTERNATIONAL & ENGAGEMENT.”
  • Delegate other topics to the Board of Directors.

Overview of Regulations and Public Policies Impacting Digital Products and Services

Achievements 2024

Challenges Faced

Given the evolving and complex nature of the subject and country-specific regulations (e.g., AGEC law, AREEN law, and the Tertiary Eco-Energy Decree in France), it is challenging to provide an exhaustive overview. However, the work completed in 2024 highlighted several regulations with potentially significant impacts across Europe, such as the CSRD, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Ecodesign Directive, the Regulation on Sustainable Product Ecodesign, and Regulation 2021/341 on eco-design requirements for servers and data storage equipment.

Perspectives for 2025

Need for a project lead.

INDICATOR FRAMEWORK

Objective

Provide an environmental indicator framework for IT departments, particularly integrating those required by French and European regulations as well as various voluntary frameworks.

The goal is to help users unfamiliar with regulatory and voluntary reporting frameworks understand which indicators to prioritize within their organization/service to measure the return on investment of a responsible digital approach.

Achievements 2024

Challenges Faced

The topic of reporting and indicators is vast, with numerous frameworks and overlapping scopes, often with differing approaches. Making the content clear and actionable, especially for a novice audience, is a significant challenge.

The availability of contributors and differing interests make it difficult to focus on a specific deliverable.

Perspectives for 2025

The challenges identified regarding indicators led us to focus on specific use cases to deliver actionable tools tailored to identified needs (e.g., convincing IT professionals, advocacy).

Several deliverables were initiated in early 2025:

  • Creation of a framework of the most common indicators in responsible digital approaches, supported by the publication from the Convictions project.
  • Deliverable (format to be defined) enabling IT departments to engage with the CSRD by identifying relevant impacts, risks, and opportunities for digital.

IT AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS

Objective

Propose and draw inspiration from business models in the IT sector that integrate planetary boundaries and a long-term vision for their business model.

Achievements 2024

Work in progress within the association.

Challenges Faced

The topic is still in its early stages within the association.

Perspectives for 2025

Proposals from the “NousSommesVivant” collective, which worked on a regenerative model with Orange.

Monitor advances from IT companies that have completed their CSRD reports.

Organize at least three exchange meetings during the year to learn from members’ experiences and feedback.

Share findings during a Friday morning session (September 2025).

CLOUD IMPACT BAROMETER

Objective

Certain physical limits increasingly impact public cloud providers (e.g., moratoriums in the Netherlands on electricity consumption, building permits denied in Ireland). The materiality of digital technology is becoming more tangible, particularly with the emergence of GenAI, whose electricity requirements already pose significant challenges.

In this context, organizations are seeking to evaluate and reduce the environmental impact of their public cloud usage but face challenges due to incomplete tools and fragmented data.

This study provides an initial market view of the maturity of this evaluation and the expectations of organizations regarding public cloud providers.

Achievements 2024

The study was conducted with the support of CRiP and benefited from extensive outreach in France to gather responses.

The final report (“Evaluation of the Environmental Footprint of Public Cloud”) was published in French and English in April 2024 (data was collected at the end of 2023 from approximately 70 respondents).

The study was presented and shared by various organizations and events (non-exhaustive list):

  • Planet Tech’Care Workshop (17/10/24): Results presented by Antoine Lagier, Alexis Bonnerat, and Nathalie Otte.
  • GreenTech Forum (5/11/24): Alexis Bonnerat participated in a roundtable as “Co-Lead of the Cloud Impact Project.”
  • Meetup FinOps x GreenOps (2/10/24): Results presented by Francois Moriamez.
  • Reused by Carbone 4 in their article “Digital Bulletin: Cloudy with a Chance of Hidden Emissions.”
  • Referenced in an article by Zeb N Web (June 2024).
  • Referenced in an article by CIO Online (May 2024).

Challenges Faced

The analysis (data processing and utilization) and drafting stages (key messages, Google Slide formatting) took longer than expected, delaying publication by a few weeks.

Perspectives for 2025

This initial evaluation could be followed up to observe the evolution of practices and perceptions among participants. The data collected and used for this publication will be two years old by Q4 2025.

The decision to update this publication has not yet been made.

HCNE

Objective

Contribute and lobby in the workshops of the High Committee for Responsible Digital (HCNE) responsible for identifying levers to decarbonize French digital technology under Article 301 of the “Climate and Resilience” law.

Achievements 2024

Workshops contributed to publishing the “Proposed Roadmap for Decarbonizing the Digital Sector” and lever questionnaires intended to be sent to operators.

Challenges Faced

Only two voices from civil society, Boavizta and The Shift Project, opposed the lobbying efforts of operator sector representatives (Numeum, France Data Center, etc.), who were also rapporteurs. The outcome was very disappointing.

Perspectives for 2025

The government initiative has ended. However, ongoing work remains on developing a Digital Trajectory for France, based on approaches used for the SNBC (but outside SNBC 3), without public consultation (though there is an opportunity to get involved).

COORDINATION WITH ASSOCIATIONS / AMBASSADORS

Objective

Streamline the exchange of information with associations in the Responsible Digital ecosystem and foster collaborations.

Achievements 2024

  • Meetings with several associations on two occasions: NEC in Chambéry in September and GreenTech Forum 2024.
    • Initiated joint efforts: mapping strengths and challenges, counter-proposal at the GreenTech Forum.
  • Discussions with representatives from the Green Software Foundation and Green Web Foundation during GreenIO Paris.

Challenges Faced

Perspectives for 2025

  • Regular meetings with associations during bi-weeklies.
  • Strengthen ties with other associations, contribute to advocacy, and share common resources for other associations to use (awareness, lobbying).
  • Set up meetings with GSF and GWF to establish cooperation on shared projects.

INTERNATIONAL & ENGAGEMENT

Objective

Create international synergies to facilitate the exchange of resources and knowledge among members and Responsible Digital stakeholders.

Attract new English-speaking members to expand the network, enrich discussions with diverse perspectives, and encourage their participation in exchanges and working groups.

Achievements 2024

  • Organized an internal survey to better understand members’ interests to prepare a presentation plan for meetings in French and English (see section Survey on Future Presentations).
  • Rewrote the LinkedIn page description in English to make it clearer and more accessible to English-speaking members. Previously, the content was only in French and lacked clarity about the association’s status.
  • Shared LinkedIn posts in English to attract new members and highlight our work, including the English translation of the cloud report (link), our booth and member presentations at Green IO (link), and the Cloud Scanner release update (link).
  • Created new LinkedIn publication templates that are more modern, accessible, and aligned with Boavizta’s visual identity (link).
  • Updated the website in French and English, adding the Cloud Scanner to the tools page (link), the Zotero library (link), and the organizations page in English, which was previously only in French (link), ensuring up-to-date web content.

Perspectives for 2025

  • Create an onboarding video in English with updated materials.
  • Reflect on the new member integration process to improve onboarding and engagement.
  • Develop a communication strategy to maximize the impact across multiple platforms and accounts (e.g., YouTube, Bluesky) to ensure consistent and regular content dissemination.
  • Effectively engage tool creators by sharing more information about updates, usage, and raising public awareness.
  • Include e-footprint among Boavizta’s tools and communicate about it.
  • Consider printing or creating a digital brochure to present at events where we have a booth.
  • Design and create a new kakemono in French and English, with an updated Boavizta logo, revised content, and inclusion of the association aspect to ensure coherent communication at events.
  • Reflect on how to leverage the presence of members abroad to create small local communities, for example, in Spain.
  • Establish connections with standardization bodies: IETF, ITU, ISO, CENELEC.

External Perception of Boavizta

“At La Fresque du Numérique, we are committed to raising awareness about the environmental challenges of digital technology. When it comes to taking action, if the devil is in the details, we are happy to rely on the professionals in the Boavizta community who share our goal, our values of scientific rigor, open-mindedness, and building digital commons.” - Franck Pramotton, Co-President of La Fresque du Numérique.

Collaboration with The Shift Project is highly appreciated, especially on HCNE projects, as well as the expected inputs from GPU LCA for the ongoing PIA report.

We are followed by 2,490 people on LinkedIn.

Our page received 3,333 views in 2024, including 1,469 unique visitors.

In 2024, we achieved 40,097 impressions on our posts, 830 reactions, 57 comments, and 36 shares.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to all members for your energy and commitment!

Thank you to the associations in the Responsible Digital ecosystem for their encouragement.

Thank you to donors (e.g., donations of broken GPUs).

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