SK Gas Practices ESG Management by Donating Idle IT Assets

Donation to Social Enterprise 'Haengbok ICT'

SK Gas has embarked on practicing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) management through the recycling of idle information technology (IT) assets.

On the 7th, SK Gas held a donation ceremony at its headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, where it donated 106 idle IT assets, including servers and storage devices, to the social enterprise 'Haengbok ICT'.

On the 7th, officials are taking a commemorative photo at the donation ceremony of idle IT assets held at SK Gas Pangyo headquarters. [Photo by SK Gas]

This donation was promoted to meaningfully recycle the idle IT infrastructure resources generated after the completion of SK Gas's internal system cloud transition. From 2021 to last year, SK Gas completed the infrastructure transition work to enhance the operating system through a cloud system and expand the next-generation firewall-based security system company-wide.

SK Gas decided to donate the idle IT assets generated during the transition process to Haengbok ICT's 'ICT Infra ECO' project. The ICT Infra ECO project employs people with disabilities to carry out processes such as sorting, disassembling, cleaning, and assembling donated old IT assets. A portion of the proceeds from selling the refurbished devices is used for public interest purposes.

Haengbok ICT plans to purchase used tablet PCs equivalent to the appraised value of the assets donated by SK Gas and donate them to Hansol General Social Welfare Center, an affiliated institution of the 'Hope Maker' program under the SK Discovery Group.

Park Seong-hyeok, Head of IT Strategy Support Office at SK Gas, said, "We will continue to explore ways to contribute to society through various IT innovations."