#45 - Assessing digital sustainability’s maturity with Aiste Rugeviciute and Rob Price

In the early 2020s, companies started facing a big question: how could they be more responsible in the digital world? Could something similar to CSR exist for this virtual and yet highly materialized world? Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) was coined to offer some much-needed guidance.
🎙️ To explore its ramification, Gaël DUEZ chats with two renowned experts in CDR: Aiste Rugeviciute, co-author of “B.A.-BA du Numérique Responsable” and now pursuing a PhD in the socio-ecological impacts of CDR strategies, and Rob Price, a key player in developing an international CDR framework. Rob also hosts the “A New Responsibility” podcast, diving deep into CDR's role in business.
Some Takeaways: 🔑 the CDR framework in a nutshell, 🌿 the importance of embracing a balanced approach to CDR in most companies, and 🛠️ a sneak peek to the newly-released CDR maturity model.
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• Aiste's LinkedIn
• Rob’s LinkedIn
• Green IO website 
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Aiste and Rob's sources and other references mentioned in this episode:

• CDR Manifesto
• B.A.-BA du Numérique Responsable
• A New Responsibility
• Maturity Model
• Ethos Foundation
• Global action plan for a sustainable planet in the digital age

Transcript

Intro 00:00
To change, we have to think about how organizations or governments incentivize change in an economy and how that helps businesses to do the things that need to be done better.

Gael Duez 00:25
Hello everyone, welcome to Green IO with Gael Duez - that’s me! In this podcast we empower responsible technologists to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time. Twice a month on a Tuesday, our guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling people within the Tech sector and beyond, to boost Digital Sustainability.

One of my more esteemed peers in Digital Sustainability, and a good friend, who’s now CSO of a large digital tech company used to work before in the garment industry. Sometimes, well quite often, she goes ballistic about the infant level of the digital industry in sustainability compared to other industries. The very idea that digital technology produces products as does the garment industry with clothes and that these products have a footprint both environmental and societal is not that widespread. An