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5.1 Have an ethical and sustainable product strategy

Business Strategy And Product Management

Implement organizational practices around ethics, sustainability, and responsible data use. Publish and maintain policies that demonstrate their implementation.

Success Criteria

  • Public documents:
    Develop, publish, and maintain key organizational policies such as a code of ethics, product guidelines, cloud sustainability strategy, and accessibility and sustainability statements. Use clear language to describe digital products, services, and emerging or disruptive technologies, such as AI. Make these policies publicly accessible and keep them versioned for transparency.
  • Achievements and compliance:
    Publish web sustainability-related achievements, features, compliance updates, and other relevant information within a dedicated sustainability section.
  • Governance over time:
    Provide evidence that sustainability policies and practices are actively implemented, monitored, and governed over time.
  • Technology legislation:
    Advocate for and comply with evidence-based legislation and standards that advance digital privacy, employment rights, transparency, accountability, responsible emerging technologies, and digital sustainability. Simultaneously make efforts to go beyond minimum expectations, especially in regard to avoiding unnecessary data collection to preserve an efficient and accessible user journey in compliance with accessibility and data protection requirements.

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