High impact πΏ
For-profit organizations have clear philanthropy policies and practices in place to help non-profit organizations build digital capacity and acumen while also engaging their own teams in meaningful work that promotes shared learning and stretch goals.
The organization has a clear corporate giving policy and creates philanthropic partnerships with strategically aligned organizations.
The organization engages in free or volunteer projects, which help its team learn new tools and tactics, while also helping charities and non-profit organizations build capacity.
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Medium impact πΏ
Everything ends at some point, planning for if and when a product or service is finalized makes good ethical sense to ensure customers can be transitioned toward a replacement rather than losing access to their data.
Establish clear, documented end-of-life guidelines that include data disposal, archiving, file deletion, and so on.
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High impact πΏ
The organization addresses e-waste, right-to-repair, recycling, and related practices in its operations.
The organization has specific policies in place to recycle e-waste and repair owned technology products whenever possible.
The organization has formed relationships with local partners for e-waste recycling and repair.
The organization buys refurbished equipment whenever possible.
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Medium impact πΏ
Setting targets and limits regarding your product or service is important for keeping a sustainable mindset. Using budgets, you can declare the remits of which you will work within to ensure your emissions do not fall outside (and monitor your progress through development).
The product team has defined, baselined, and documented a clear sustainability and environmental budget criteria that covers the page, user-journey, and digital service levels and metrics (such as a CO2.js score) that are approved by relevant product stakeholders.
Use tools such as a performance budget to determine the maximum size (goals) your app or website can weigh to reduce the data transfer and HTTP request impact (using metrics like Google Lighthouse).
The product team can measurably show how much the budgeting process improved performance and reduced emissions.
The product team invests in resources to build capacity and maintain the budgets over time.
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High impact πΏ
The organization has clear policies about using open source tools, including how it gives back to the community and responsibly manages code repositories to reduce waste.
The organization has a clear open source policy in place that outlines how it uses open source tools and the practices it supports surrounding open source development.
The organization has a track record of collaboration and community-building around open source principles.
The organization regularly contributes to open source community-based projects.
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