Sustainable IT

Sustainable IT for our clients

Technology continues to advance through AI, data, and cloud innovation. With these gains come increasing costs and environmental impacts. At the same time, technology gives organizations powerful tools, and it is their responsibility to use these tools in a sustainable way to scale up their positive impact..

 

We raise awareness and apply sustainable IT practices in our operations, and work with you to apply these practices across your organization—from strategy through operations. We also collaborate with industry partners, to help mitigate the potential negative impacts of digital transformation.

Sustainable IT services

At CGI we provide Sustainable IT services that address environmental challenges and social considerations, such as digital accessibility and inclusion. These services include:

• Sustainable IT strategy and governance: Our Sustainable IT maturity assessment aligns with recognized standards, including Agence Lucie’s Sustainable IT certification. It provides you a clear and comprehensive understanding of strategy, governance, communication and training, digital equipment lifecycles and digital services lifecycles to help define your roadmap.
• IT environmental footprint: We partner with specialized providers to measure and assess IT-related carbon emissions and environmental impact. Together, we provide customized advisory services to define decarbonisation roadmaps tailored to your objectives.
• Training: We use our change management expertise to help your teams engage in Sustainable IT initiatives. Our learning solutions include an awareness e-learning module, serious games, eco-design training and our PLENR Training platform, which features hands-on challenges and quizzes.
• Sustainable design (eco-design and accessibility): Our sustainable design audit helps assess the maturity of specifications, content, front end, back end and architecture. We also provide advisory support on sustainable design and partner with specialized solutions to strengthen sustainable design practices.
• GreenOps: We work with GreenOps partners and provide consulting services to help you reduce the environmental footprint of your cloud environments.

Learn more about Sustainability & ESG advisory

Partnerships and networks

Our partnerships and networks help us share resources, advance responsible digital practices and maximize CGI's positive impact.

Our involvement includes:

• ISIT France: Member and signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter, contributing to several working groups that produce tools and frameworks—including the WeNR and GR491 pilots—and completed a project to help schools develop sustainable IT courses
• Alliance Green IT (link in French): Member and contributor to multiple working groups
• Good In Tech: Partner and founding patron of the Good In Tech Chair, launched in 2019
• Planet Tech’Care (link in French): Member and manifesto signatory
• AFNOR: Contributor to the frugal AI framework and participant and financial sponsor of the GE ECO SN (Eco-design of digital services expert group) that follows the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 39/WG 4 (Eco-design of digital services)
• Handitech: Founded by CGI in France in 2018 to leverage innovation to create a more inclusive society. This initiative brings together startups, companies, schools, laboratories, institutions and individuals to develop innovative technical solutions for persons with disabilities or loss of autonomy.
• CGI UK Green Software Guide: Developed with the University of Leicester through our SEEDS program, the guide empowers IT professionals to build energy-efficient, low-impact software. It reflects our commitment to using sustainable IT as a driver of innovation, emissions reduction, and environmental responsibility across the tech sector.