GMO Internet Group's Initiatives on SDGs

Since its foundation, GMO Internet Group has consistently provided Internet and service infrastructure under the corporate slogan "Internet for Everyone."

Internet has changed the way personal lives work by eliminating "information" boundaries, such as time and distance constraints, and society has become freer and more affluent.

GMO Internet Group agrees with sustainable development goals (SDGs) advocated by the United Nations and will contribute to society and the people, which have diversified, through the Internet technology and the Group's business activities to help solve the world's common challenges.

GMO Internet Group's Initiatives on SDGs

2. Zero hunger

GMO Internet Group has been driving the sustainable measures through foods with LEOC at GMO Yours, a communication space, at the first headquarter in Cerulean Tower and second headquarter in Shibuya FUKURAS.

Lunch menus offered at GMO Yours are reservation-only to reduce food waste. Besides that, in January 2021, GMO Internet Group and LEOC have launched a lunch menu for TABLE FOR TWO. In TABLE FOR TWO program, every time a meal that controls the calories to prevent obesity and lifestyle diseases is bought, a donation of JPY 20 per meal is used to pay for school meals of developing countries' children. GMO Internet Group actively strives to solve global issues through foods.
Initiatives on World Food Day 2021
Won the grand prize for the category of menus and drinks of the 2nd TABLE FOR TWO Awards!

4.Quality education

GMO Internet Group provides information through conferences and raises talent that will play important roles in the next generation based on its accumulated know-how of the latest technologies. As a result, GMO Internet Group aims to contribute to the development of IT technologies in Japan and provide new values to society with new technologies.
Held next-generation online meeting BIT VALLEY (Japanese only)
Kids VALLEY Future Learning Project to raise the talent needed in the next generation (Japanese only)
Coeteco, a programming education for children (Japanese only)
State-of-the-art tech conference GMO Developers Day (Japanese only)

5.Gender equality

Under the Venture Spirit Declaration, which embodies the spirit in which GMO Internet Group was founded, "We do not tolerate prejudice on the grounds of race, nationality, gender, educational background, language, religion, or any other factors." GMO Internet Group respects the diversity of the partners and has a work system that realizes a flexible way of working.
GMO Internet Group Venture Spirit Declaration

8.Decent work and economic growth

GMO Internet Group supports the economic growth by giving customers easy-to-use, secure services at a low price through in-house development of the various services of the Group with an aim to offer No. 1 services to our customers.

We will pursue hiring locals through regional or overseas offices. In addition, we are actively hiring handicapped people who are willing to work at a special subsidiary based on the Act on the Promotion of the Employment of Disabled Persons.
GMO Internet Group Venture Spirit Declaration
GMO Payment Gateway Selected "Great Place to Work" (Japanese only)
GMO Pepabo Selected "Great Place to Work" (Japanese only)

9.Industry, innovation and infrastructure

GMO Internet Group comprehensively develops Internet Infrastructure, Online Advertising & Media, Internet Finance, and Cryptoassets businesses. The Group enriches customers' businesses and lives with technologies to create smiles and excitement.
E-contract service GMO Sign promoting electronic document and a shift to a paperless system (Japanese only)
GMO CHINTAI DX improving the efficiency of real estate leasing management (Japanese only)

10.Reduced inequalities

GMO Internet Group is motivated to eliminate the digital divide, which is an inequality that occurs between people who can use information and communication technology (ICT) and those who cannot, by providing the "place" for the Internet. We want to eliminate inequality in the access to information by providing the "place" for the Internet that serves as a foundation for providing and gathering information, which translates into the reduction of various disparities that occur between people or countries.

12.Responsible consumption and production

GMO Internet Group has been discouraging the use of seal impression since April 2020 and driving a shift to a paperless system through GMO GlobalSign HD's e-contract service GMO Sign.
GMO Internet Group is discouraging the use of plastic at the internal cafeteria with the aim of reducing the plastic waste that leads to marine pollution.
GMO Internet Group will protect various resources and reduce the emission of CO2 and wastes by making these efforts to be environmentally conscious, contributing to an increase in the sustainability of businesses and society.
E-contract service GMO Sign promoting electronic document and a shift to a paperless system (Japanese only)
Discouraging the use of plastic at the internal cafeteria (Japanese only)