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18 Dec 2008
The UK software industry's efforts to demonstrate its green credentials received a boost this week after French software developers and vendors announced that they were to adopt its environmental framework.
The French Association of Software Developers (Association Francaise Des Editeurs De Logiciels - AFDL) signed BASDA's green charter binding them to its environmental principles from next year.
Software companies that sign up to the charter must adhere to a set of guiding principles which include: reducing their own carbon footprint; providing technology that allows its clients to become carbon efficient; and working to increase awareness of environmental issues.
Companies in the UK that have already signed up include Version One, Oracle, Sage, Access Accounting, COA Solutions, CODA, Pegasus, Sapphire, Mamut and Proteus.
AFDL, like its British counterpart, announced that it was also in the process of signing up business software companies to the environmental framework.
Jairo Rojas, director general at BASDA, said: 'The BASDA green charter now has the attention of policy makers within the EC and government ministers outside the UK. I want to make sure that the UK government is also fully aware of the initiative and how BASDA is proactively working with the software and IT industry in providing the tools and technology to aid the challenging task ahead of us to enable a carbon efficient economy.'
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