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ESGnet: an ESG reporting platform aligned to GRI and SASB
ESGnet is an ESG reporting platform built by our team at Arke Technologies (Pty) Ltd in Johannesburg. It collects environmental, social and governance performance data and reports it in line with the GRI and SASB frameworks, and it is designed for ESG officers and for investor-facing sustainability reporting.
Why ESG reporting needs its own platform
ESG figures come from all over an organisation: fuel and electricity records, water meters, waste manifests, payroll and HR systems for headcount and training, safety registers and procurement records. In many organisations they live in spreadsheets kept by different people at different sites. When the sustainability report falls due, the ESG officer spends the time reconciling versions instead of reading the performance, and an investor's question about one figure can take days to trace.
The frameworks add a second layer. The GRI Standards are written for reporting an organisation's impacts on the economy, the environment and people, to a broad audience. The SASB Standards, now maintained by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), set out industry by industry the sustainability topics most likely to affect financial performance, which is what investors ask about. An organisation that reports to both audiences needs the same underlying figure expressed in two frameworks' terms, and a folder of spreadsheets does not keep those in step.
What the ESG reporting platform does
Collects ESG performance data across environmental, social and governance indicators, in one system instead of scattered spreadsheets.- Reports in line with GRI and SASB from the same collected data.
- Visualises performance for ESG officers, so trends and gaps show up before the reporting deadline rather than after it.
- Supports investor-facing sustainability reporting prepared from the data held in the platform.
How it is built
ESGnet runs on PostgreSQL, a relational database, because ESG data is structured by nature: each figure belongs to an indicator, a reporting period, a part of the organisation and a unit of measure. A relational model keeps those links consistent and lets one query answer "what did this site report, for which period, against which indicator".
React drives the screens for capturing data and reading dashboards, and the visualisation layer turns figures into charts. We bring the same discipline to data, analytics and business intelligence work: a report is only as good as the pipeline behind it.
Governance, POPIA and King IV
- Board oversight. King IV Principle 5 asks the board to ensure the organisation's reports let stakeholders assess its performance and prospects, and Principle 12 asks it to govern technology and information. A board that signs off published sustainability figures needs to know who entered, changed and approved each one. See King IV and technology governance.
- Personal information. Social indicators often start from personal information, such as safety incidents or employee demographics, and health or race data is special personal information under POPIA. Report in aggregate, restrict access to the underlying records and hold only what the report needs (POPIA's minimality condition). Our POPIA compliance service covers the controls.
- Security by design. When we build a platform like this, we design in data minimisation, encryption in transit and at rest, access controls and audit logging from the start.
- Your data stays yours. You own your data, credentials and documentation, during the engagement and at exit, and we document the data model so another team can run the platform.
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