GREEN DATA Guide
by VAST FORWARD

In the context of VAST GREEN, we understand it as a complex topic that encompasses all areas affecting our digital lives: from individual communication behaviors such as emails, video calls, or the use of tools, to daily data handling in projects, the filing, storage, and exchange of diverse data, all the way to “looking under the hood” of our projects, into the programming and architecture of our products.

Since 2022, we have been working on evaluating our digital processes in the ‘Sustainable Product Working Group’. In this checklist, we have compiled the essential points from our Green Data criteria list and want to make them freely available for public use.

GREEN COMMUNICATION UND PROJEKTMANAGEMENT

Sustainable products require a sustainable infrastructure which necessitates management, planning, and control of resource, tool, and technology use. At its core, sustainability involves proficient project management. The fundamental topics include communication, data handling, and also sharing and demanding sustainable data usage.

In the following, we guide you through topics that can be checked off or actively implemented when reviewing projects.

General Information:
In principle, avoiding “too many” video calls is encouraged. A video call uses about four times as much data as an audio call.1

1Source: https://utopia.de/ratgeber/videocalls-so-verbesserst-du-die-klimabilanz/

General Information:
An email generates approximately 27g of CO2 (average value). This may not sound like much, but according to Statista, 300 billion emails were sent worldwide per day in 2020 alone. (Source: Amount of emails per day worldwide | Statista).

  • Tools and Programs

  • Data Storage and Transfer

  • Energy Reduction

  • Devices

  • Circular Economy

  • Password Management

  • Customer Management

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