Our societal impact
@Proximus
May 2019
A fast changing society
A changing society
Climate change
mobility and quality of living are becoming major preoccupations, with smart cities projects, homeworking solutions, smart living and smart health solutions.
Digital technologies can help develop smart ways to manage waste, energy, mobility and buildings. Customers expect companies to respect the planet
Innovative technologies
Digital human capital
AI, IoT, VR, Blockchain both factors of disruption as drivers of economic growth. Companies need to make the digital transition. Security and privacy are important concerns.
Accelerated digitization and emerging technologies are transforming the labor market. Without the necessary digital skills, unemployment and social tensions will increase.
Digital customers
Digital innovations not only delight customers, they also bring new ways to tackle societal, economic and environmental challenges.
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Connectivity is seen as a basic right, digital inclusion of all citizens is a societal challenge. Also, customers expect a digital, personalized experience in every interaction.
An ambition, inspired by our sense of purpose
Creating an inclusive, safe, sustainable & prosperous digital Belgium
Making a societal impact Contributing to the UN sustainable development goals
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A sustainability strategy centered around 4 strategic areas
Enabling a better digital life
Caring for our stakeholders
Contributing to society
Respecting our planet
Proximus Sustainability Strategy 2019-2021
Our company sense of purpose: We open up a world of digital opportunities so people live better and work smarter
Enabling a better digital life
Digital infrastructure
Our societal impact ambition:
Creating an inclusive, safe, sustainable and prosperous digital Belgium
Caring for our stakeholders
Customers first
Digital innovation
Caring for employees
CO2 neutral Digital trust
Doing business right Circular economy
Sustainable supply chain
Contributing to society Digital for all
Respecting our planet
CO2 neutral
Belgian culture
Circular economy
Societal engagement
Sustainable supply
Enabling a better digital life Digital infrastructure Digital innovation Digital trust
Enabling a better digital life
Digital infrastructure We are committed to investing in future-proof digital infrastructure enabling Belgium’s digital society and allowing customers to live better and work smarter.
• 3 € billion Fiber investment • 9 cities, 48% of companies • +7 cities, footprint x2 in 2019 • Finalising deployment in industrial zonings in 2019 Proximus Sustainability Strategy 2019-2021
• 99.9% outdoor and 99.5% indoor coverage on 4G • Extending 4,5G • Preparing 5G
Improving fixed and mobile connectivity in White Zones
Enabling a better digital life
Digital innovation We stimulate co-creation with our customers, engage in open innovation with academic and start-up/scaleup communities and strive benefit for a digital society.
Academic partnerships on IoT, AI, Cybersecurity & networks
Support start-up & scale-up communities
Innovations addressing societal challenges .
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Enabling a better digital life
Digital trust We pay particular attention to developing a safer digital society. We provide cybersecurity solutions and services to our residential, enterprise and public customers, are a proud partner of the Cybersecurity Coalition and build trust in digital through data protection, privacy and awareness initiatives.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity education
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93% Founding partner of the cybersecurity coalition
â‚Ź 10M 2000M
Ensuring data privacy
Investment per year in cybersecurity CSIRT team monitors this number of events every day alerting customers in case of incidents.
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> 10,000 children reached every year attracting female talent and promote reskilling initiatives especially to women cybersecurity corporate program and awareness through fishing exercises or capture the flag games.
of Proximus employees reached by GDPR trainings in 2018.
We communicate in a transparent way on personal data processing through an easy to understand privacy policy and consent collection.
Easy to find and understand privacy setting on MyProximus (app & web) and TV (app & web).
Caring for our stakeholders Customers first Caring for employees Doing business right
Caring for our stakeholders
We put customers first Through our products and services we want to stay relevant for our customers, meeting their needs and living up to their expectations.
Listening to our customers
Our Epic offer was cocreated with millennials
We collect customer feedback.to make structural improvements
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A digital customer service
Titus
New digital solutions: chatbots, our customer forum, a new MyProximus app.
Proactive servicing solutions free smartphone replacement, smartphone insurance and wifi home optimizer app.
Responsible marketing Parental control on TV and smartphones Protect customers from bill chocks with specific offers, proactive alerts or oneshot data bundle offers. We dialogue on health matters with our stakeholders and provide information to customers on potential radiation risks and provide solutions like bbox set-up turn offs.
Caring for our stakeholders
Caring for our employees We need our employees to make the digital future happen. We offer them the chance to bring about positive change, to make a difference and to contribute to our results. We want them to be our best ambassadors and Committed to digital by making Proximus Supporting ourplace employees Safe & healthy Diversity & Inclusion show our commitment a great to work.
upskilling and reskilling Committed to digital upskilling and reskilling
725
Internal job moves in 2018
20.6hrs
through the transformation Supporting employees in the transformation
2 days
per week homeworking
Resilience Program
training per employee in 2018
X2
training effort over the next 3 years (from 3 to 6 days per employee/year) Proximus Sustainability Strategy 2019-2021
Stimulating diversity and inclusion
58
nationalities
50%
of new hires or promotions in leadership team were woman
Digital Workplace
workplace A safe and healthy work environment
Caring for our stakeholders
Doing business right Compliance and business ethics are our license to operate. We expect all our employees and affiliates to share and live by our values and standards.
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Code of conduct
Business ethics
Every year all employees & affiliates have to participate in mandatory training.
We commit to regular employee communication around policies on a.o. anti-corruption, antibribery, conflict of interest.
Transparency
Suppliers
In 2019 we will increase transparency in our non-financial reporting and participating in surveys & rankings consulted by investors/analysts.
We request our suppliers to respect our ethical, social and environmental standards & are committed on our turn to treat them fair and with respect.
Contributing to society
Digital for all Fans of Belgian culture Social engagement
Contributing to society
Digital for all We continuously work on making our products, services, shops and applications accessible for disabled or visually impaired people. We evaluate the accessibility of new smartphones.
Our websites will be accessible for visually impaired people by 2020 and our apps by 2021.
Our TV interface will support audio description and extended subtitling by 2024.
We offer a social tariff to the less privileged.
Educating Belgians for the digital future
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Contributing to society
Fans of Belgium’s culture
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Contributing to society
Social engagement
Supporting the Belgian Paralympic Committee
As a company strongly rooted in Belgium, we want to give back to society in a concrete and direct way. We do this by supporting local initiatives around our offices and other national projects.
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Respecting our planet Proud to be CO2 neutral Circular economy Sustainable supply chain
Respecting our planet
Proud to be CO2-neutral We are one of the first and few operators in the world who are 100% carbon neutral for own operations and business travel.
99%
-30%
-43%
of our electricity comes from renewable energy sources.
energy consumption over the past 10 years.
energy consumption of our decoders over the past 5 years.
And we continue to raise our ambition We are a cdp leadership award winner in 2018 for the 6th year in a row and won the CDP supplier engagement award in 2019.
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• to realise our CO2 emission reduction target of 30% between 2015 and 2025 and keep results aligned with Science Based Targets • to further reduce our energy consumption in network and buildings • to reach the RE100 target of 100% electricity from renewable sources in 2021
Respecting our planet
Part of the circular economy At Proximus we are actively contributing to this circular economy, both in-house and together with our customers. We will continue to do whatever it takes to close the circle.
>2000 tons
87%
of copper cable recycled from our network over the past 2 years.
of our waste is recycled, reused or composted.
>400K
>18,000
modems and TV decoders have been refurbished.
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We recycled 18,279 mobile phones in 2018 together with Goodplanet, well on track to realize our ambition of 200.000 by 2020.
In 2018 we launched a sustainability program in schools around waste, mobility, food and energy, using our IOT technology.
Looking forward
• We are defining a new 10 year circular strategy • We are preparing an ambitious circular economy project
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Respecting our planet
Sustainable supply chain
100% of contracts contained a CSR clause in 2018 on social, ethical and environmental standards for our vendors.
Looking forward
Proximus wants to evolve from a company committed to CSR and Sustainability to a company that is truly using CSR and Sustainability as key differentiators in its supplier choices and activities.
We are
CO2 neutral Efficiency
Develop
JAC
circular economy initiatives
sharing program with suppliers
in our supply chain Sustainable
RFP process Sustainability training
Sustainable sub-supplier program
program for key suppliers
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Reverse factoring program
for energy and minerals
We are committed to making a societal impact
Supporting local innovation ecosystems Building trust in digital as founding partner in coalition Easy to find and understand privacy settings on App, TV and websites
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CO2 neutral
Responsible mktg
Improving fixed and mobile connectivity in white zones
parental control on TV and smartphones
Founding partner of Coding School 19
for own activities CO2 reduction -75% vs 2007
X2 50%
100%
Upskilling effort from 3 to 6 days per employee per year in next 3y
Hires or promotions in leadership team in 2018 are women CSR clause in all contracts
12,500 kids trained on safer internet use >1000 long-term ill kids connected to school
Sponsor of the Paralympic athletes
-18% vs 2015 -43% energy consumption of decoders in past 5 years Since 2013 145K smartphones collected in schools for recycling
Our societal impact
@Proximus More information can be found in the annual report 2018, published on www.Proximus.com