Eutelsat

Eutelsat connects 100,000 public spaces, such as schools, hospitals, universities, parks and government institutions, across Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Panama with free internet. It also supports the digital inclusivity of women and girls through a partnership that aims to advance science-related entrepreneurial skills among girls in Mexico, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The company follows best practice by reporting the number of employees with disabilities and the number of employees in its main countries of operations.

Eutelsat supports Ghana Code Club, a non-profit association that trains Ghanaian children in basic computer skills. The company also supplies bandwidth to an initiative providing live lessons to geographically isolated students across Africa and Italy.

Eutelsat demonstrates high-level accountability for cybersecurity.

In respect to sustainable innovation, Eutelsat aims to reduce the environmental footprint of its operations through virtualisation technology, which reduces the number of servers on which its operations depend.

Eutelsat has an opportunity to disclose how much it contributes to its programmes for advancing universal and affordable access to the internet and for addressing the gender digital divide. It can also report how many people are benefitting from these programmes as well as the impact of these programmes. The company should also disclose how it distributes its direct economic value among its stakeholders.

Eutelsat supports programmes advancing basic digital skills development and school connectivity. Additionally, the company can expand its support to programmes developing intermediate and technical digital skills. The company can also improve its performance by disclosing how much it contributes to its existing programmes, how many people have benefitted from its support and what the impact of these programmes are.

Eutelsat can disclose its group approach to information security management, as there is evidence that some of its information management systems are certified against international standards. The company should publish a privacy policy that is applicable in the same way across all its countries of operations.

There is little evidence of Eutelsat’s support for open, sustainable, inclusive and ethical innovation. The company can support research on technology and sustainability carried out by universities or non-profit organisations. It can also support the start-up community through accelerators or incubators. In addition, Eutelsat should report the number of women employed in research and development (R&D) roles as well as how it applies ethics in its R&D activities.

Eutelsat commits to respect human rights and the ILO core labour rights. The company has a grievance mechanism accessible to both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights concerns and complaints. However, it is unclear if complainants are able to choose to remain anonymous. Eutelsat does not disclose a process to identify, assess and take action on the salient human rights risks associated with its own operations and with its business relationships. Moreover, the company does not engage with stakeholders whose human rights could be impacted by its operations.

Eutelsat publicly commits to respecting the health and safety of workers, but it does not place the same requirements on its business relationships. The company has no policy commitment stating that it does not require workers to work more than the regular and overtime hours. It is also not explicit that the company requires its business relationships to do the same. While 80% of workers across the group benefit from an employee representative body, it is unclear if these workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Eutelsat has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with its business relationships. The company does not disclose any relevant information in relation to tax, such as a global tax strategy or its income tax payments in individual tax jurisdictions. Eutelsat discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy statement, where it specifies that it does not make political contributions. However, the company does not disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

The below datasheet disaggregates scores within the three core social measurement areas and by specific indicators.