Nearly 5.5 million people live in the 1,514 priority urban neighborhoods (quartiers prioritaires de la politique de la ville - QPV) in mainland France and its overseas territories.
In quick succession, several studies and surveys have been carried out to identify the digital practices of residents in these neighbourhoods:
In its sixth reportthe Observatoire national des politiques de la ville (ONPV) takes stock of the vulnerabilities and resources of priority neighborhoods: it devotes a detailed chapter of the report to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, drawing on the Capuni survey conducted in 2019 of 7,500 people.
Cahiers du développement social urbain devotes a special issue to dossier (over twenty contributions) to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, particularly in terms of access to employment and training.
In this article, Richard Nordier reports on a survey carried out for the Metropole de Lyon on how these people use the Internet when looking for a job, an internship or training. He points to "practical" difficulties (having a computer, knowing how to use a keyboard with ease, etc.) but also "psychosocial difficulties: being afraid of doing something wrong or making a mistake, underestimating or overestimating one's real abilities, being demotivated after receiving numerous rejections or no response".
Of a completely different nature is the Data & Quartiers" program " program, which aimed to build a bridge "between two universes that didn't know each other: that of urban policy and that of data". With the support of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT), the Data & Quartiers" program " program has experimented with new tools and new uses for data that are more frequently deployed in inner-city areas as part of "smart city" projects.
Compas, a consultancy specializing in the social observation of territories, has undertaken to evaluate the proportion of platform workers living in a priority district: According to this studyAccording to this study, 24% of delivery drivers working in France live in a disadvantaged neighborhood. Similarly, nearly one in five (19%) of the 52,700 VTC drivers in operation at the time live in a disadvantaged neighborhood. The proportion of drivers living in a priority district is four times higher than that of all workers.
As part of the 5th edition of Numérique en Commun[s], held on September 28, 2022 in Lens (Pas de Calais), a contributory workshop examined digital inclusion issues specific to priority neighborhoods. For its participants, " digital must permeate all city contracts, as a transversal pillar and not as a specific axis. While this choice runs the risk of dilution, it creates shared requirements for allcity contractstakeholders, and a genuine common culture ".
This dossier looks in more detail at these studies and surveys, to give an overview of the subject.
What digital practices do residents of priority urban districts use?
In 2019, 87% of QPV residents aged 18 to 59 in mainland France were equipped with a smartphone (compared with 91% of residents in mainland France), 75% with a home computer (compared with 89%) and 48% with a tablet (compared with 54%).
In its sixth report, the Observatoire national des politiques de la ville (ONPV) sixth reportprovides a summary of various studies and surveys on the theme of vulnerabilities and resources in QPVs.
The ONPV devotes a detailed chapter of the report to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods.
Researchers from the M@rsouin Scientific Interest Group have compared the responses of residents of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods with those of residents of surrounding urban units (usually metropolises and urban communities) and those of the general population.
Job hunting in the working-class neighborhoods of the Lyon metropolitan area: dematerialization, but at what cost?
Richard Nordier reports, in Cahiers du Développement Social, on a survey carried out for the Metropole of Lyon on the uses made of the Internet by people living in priority urban districts when looking for a job, an internship or training.
In terms of digital autonomy, young people clearly stand out from other groups. "They suffer more from difficulties specific to the job market than from problems with computers. The other groups are much less at ease with the Internet, and even less autonomous with digital tools".
Online applications are relatively common among young people, employees on integration schemes and long-term RSA recipients. Women show a clear preference for sending applications by post. In all cases, hand-delivered applications are frequently preferred for a variety of reasons: to find out directly where a company is located, to ensure that your application has been received, to demonstrate your motivation, to clear up any misunderstandings... Using e-mail is also often problematic, as is using search engines. Many people find it difficult to remember their login details or to formulate key words.
More broadly, concludes the author, the difficulties encountered by audiences are of two kinds:
Practical": having a computer, knowing how to use a keyboard, searching for information on the Internet without getting lost, downloading and sending your CV, finding job offers that match your project... ;
psychosocial: being afraid of doing something wrong or making a mistake, underestimating or overestimating one's real abilities, being demotivated after receiving numerous rejections or no response"...
All our customers consider that they can get help if they need it: children (especially if they're at school and have a computer), spouses, neighbors or members of the same community are frequently cited first.
"Although useful, they don't always provide an effective response to the problems encountered. Support professionals are another important source of help: social workers, Pôle emploi or local mission advisors, digital trainers or specialized associations. In many cases, these two channels are mobilized in parallel, and are extremely useful in removing obstacles".
Référence :
Data & Neighborhoods: When big data serves neighborhoods
For 3 years, the RésO Villes association set out to build a bridge "between two universes that didn't know each other: that of urban policy and that of data".
With the support of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT) and the experts at CIVITEO, the Data & Quartiers" program " program has been experimenting with new tools and new uses for data that are more frequently deployed in central districts as part of "smart city" projects.
The main objectives of the program were to
▪ Using "datascience" tools to benefit priority neighborhoods;
▪ Improving knowledge and observation of neighborhoods thanks to data ;
▪ Understand and explain these new tools, these new data, these new uses ;
▪ Document the methodology to encourage duplication of experiments.
The projects carried out on the themes of employment, health and mobility, with the support of private and public partners, have enabled us to consolidate a methodology and acquire certain convictions about the role of data in urban policy.
Digital technology and employment in priority urban districts: when inequalities intersect
Cahiers du développement social urbain devotes a special issue to dossier (more than twenty contributions) to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, particularly in terms of access to employment and training.
The first part of the dossier documents the situation of inhabitants of priority neighborhoods when it comes to digital inequalities.
The second part offers insights into how public policies are tackling the issue of digital transition, particularly in the field of professional integration. "The aim is to show what responses have been put in place, from the national to the local level, to help local residents make the digital transition to employment.
The third part looks at the employment opportunities offered by digital technology: "Can digital technology be a support, a response, not only to facilitate access to employment, but also to create jobs?
On January 1, 2022, of the 179,200 delivery drivers operating in France, one in four (24%) lived in a priority urban district (QPV)3. Similarly, of the 52,700 VTC drivers in operation on that date, almost one in five (19%) live in a QPV. The proportion of drivers living in a priority district is four times higher than that of the workforce as a whole.
Generally speaking, observes study author Hugo Botton, "it's in the neighborhoods most marked by economic fragility (poverty, inactivity, unemployment, part-time work) that there are the most delivery workers. Thus, the neighborhoods with the highest proportion of delivery workers are those which, in order, have a high proportion of immigrants, a high poverty rate, a low proportion of households with a car, are located in an EPCI (metropolis or intercommunality) characterized by a high presence of managers and many young people (18-24 and 25-39)".
Similarly, the neighborhoods with the most drivers among workers are located in a densely populated EPCI with a high proportion of managers, a high proportion of immigrants, a high proportion of car-owning households and a high poverty rate.
This over-representation of platform workers in working-class neighborhoods underlines the role these neighborhoods play in the local economy, concludes the author of the study. " Working-class neighborhoods are not all inactive or unemployed, as some caricatured views would have us believe. In fact, in 2020, 40% of people employed in QPVs were in occupations on the "front line of Covid-19".
Référence :
NEC: What role will digital mediation play in working-class neighborhoods after 2023?
As part of the 5th edition of Numérique en Commun[s], held on September 28, 2022 in Lens (Pas de Calais), a workshop examined digital inclusion issues specific to priority neighborhoods.
For the participants in this workshop, while digital inclusion and mediation actions are de facto present in a large number of city contracts, and while "ordinary law" public policies have been deployed (national strategy for inclusive digital, 150 "Fabriques de territoires" in QPVs, France service digital advisors...), institutional consideration of digital inclusion is still weak: it "is not yet contractually present in the city contract, and has neither objectives nor a suitable nomenclature".
"Urban policy often calls for thematic approaches. If digital inclusion is to be conceived as a cross-cutting public policy, some of the challenges of urban policy call for specific responses that involve mobilizing the know-how of digital mediation players to complement the action of players already present".
For the working group, "digital technology must permeate all city contracts, as a cross-cutting pillar and not as a specific axis. While this choice runs the risk of dilution, it creates shared requirements for all city contract stakeholders, and a genuine common culture that is necessary in a context where digital technology has become a total social fact".
In addition, the working group "demands that digital technology be perceived as a resource (capable of empowering players) and not just as a problem (that of digital inequalities)".
Enfin, " it calls for this pillar to benefit from a specific diagnosis and ongoing monitoring, both by project leaders and by city contract steering committees".
[Feature] Digital practices in priority neighborhoods: inequalities and opportunities
Nearly 5.5 million people live in the 1,514 priority urban neighborhoods (quartiers prioritaires de la politique de la ville - QPV) in mainland France and its overseas territories.
In quick succession, several studies and surveys have been carried out to identify the digital practices of residents in these neighbourhoods:
In its sixth reportthe Observatoire national des politiques de la ville (ONPV) takes stock of the vulnerabilities and resources of priority neighborhoods: it devotes a detailed chapter of the report to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, drawing on the Capuni survey conducted in 2019 of 7,500 people.
Cahiers du développement social urbain devotes a special issue to dossier (over twenty contributions) to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, particularly in terms of access to employment and training.
In this article, Richard Nordier reports on a survey carried out for the Metropole de Lyon on how these people use the Internet when looking for a job, an internship or training. He points to "practical" difficulties (having a computer, knowing how to use a keyboard with ease, etc.) but also "psychosocial difficulties: being afraid of doing something wrong or making a mistake, underestimating or overestimating one's real abilities, being demotivated after receiving numerous rejections or no response".
Of a completely different nature is the Data & Quartiers" program " program, which aimed to build a bridge "between two universes that didn't know each other: that of urban policy and that of data". With the support of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT), the Data & Quartiers" program " program has experimented with new tools and new uses for data that are more frequently deployed in inner-city areas as part of "smart city" projects.
Compas, a consultancy specializing in the social observation of territories, has undertaken to evaluate the proportion of platform workers living in a priority district: According to this studyAccording to this study, 24% of delivery drivers working in France live in a disadvantaged neighborhood. Similarly, nearly one in five (19%) of the 52,700 VTC drivers in operation at the time live in a disadvantaged neighborhood. The proportion of drivers living in a priority district is four times higher than that of all workers.
As part of the 5th edition of Numérique en Commun[s], held on September 28, 2022 in Lens (Pas de Calais), a contributory workshop examined digital inclusion issues specific to priority neighborhoods. For its participants, " digital must permeate all city contracts, as a transversal pillar and not as a specific axis. While this choice runs the risk of dilution, it creates shared requirements for allcity contractstakeholders, and a genuine common culture ".
This dossier looks in more detail at these studies and surveys, to give an overview of the subject.
What digital practices do residents of priority urban districts use?
In 2019, 87% of QPV residents aged 18 to 59 in mainland France were equipped with a smartphone (compared with 91% of residents in mainland France), 75% with a home computer (compared with 89%) and 48% with a tablet (compared with 54%).
In its sixth report, the Observatoire national des politiques de la ville (ONPV) sixth reportprovides a summary of various studies and surveys on the theme of vulnerabilities and resources in QPVs.
The ONPV devotes a detailed chapter of the report to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods.
Researchers from the M@rsouin Scientific Interest Group have compared the responses of residents of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods with those of residents of surrounding urban units (usually metropolises and urban communities) and those of the general population.
Job hunting in the working-class neighborhoods of the Lyon metropolitan area: dematerialization, but at what cost?
Richard Nordier reports, in Cahiers du Développement Social, on a survey carried out for the Metropole of Lyon on the uses made of the Internet by people living in priority urban districts when looking for a job, an internship or training.
In terms of digital autonomy, young people clearly stand out from other groups. "They suffer more from difficulties specific to the job market than from problems with computers. The other groups are much less at ease with the Internet, and even less autonomous with digital tools".
Online applications are relatively common among young people, employees on integration schemes and long-term RSA recipients. Women show a clear preference for sending applications by post. In all cases, hand-delivered applications are frequently preferred for a variety of reasons: to find out directly where a company is located, to ensure that your application has been received, to demonstrate your motivation, to clear up any misunderstandings... Using e-mail is also often problematic, as is using search engines. Many people find it difficult to remember their login details or to formulate key words.
More broadly, concludes the author, the difficulties encountered by audiences are of two kinds:
Practical": having a computer, knowing how to use a keyboard, searching for information on the Internet without getting lost, downloading and sending your CV, finding job offers that match your project... ;
psychosocial: being afraid of doing something wrong or making a mistake, underestimating or overestimating one's real abilities, being demotivated after receiving numerous rejections or no response"...
All our customers consider that they can get help if they need it: children (especially if they're at school and have a computer), spouses, neighbors or members of the same community are frequently cited first.
"Although useful, they don't always provide an effective response to the problems encountered. Support professionals are another important source of help: social workers, Pôle emploi or local mission advisors, digital trainers or specialized associations. In many cases, these two channels are mobilized in parallel, and are extremely useful in removing obstacles".
Référence :
Data & Neighborhoods: When big data serves neighborhoods
For 3 years, the RésO Villes association set out to build a bridge "between two universes that didn't know each other: that of urban policy and that of data".
With the support of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT) and the experts at CIVITEO, the Data & Quartiers" program " program has been experimenting with new tools and new uses for data that are more frequently deployed in central districts as part of "smart city" projects.
The main objectives of the program were to
▪ Using "datascience" tools to benefit priority neighborhoods;
▪ Improving knowledge and observation of neighborhoods thanks to data ;
▪ Understand and explain these new tools, these new data, these new uses ;
▪ Document the methodology to encourage duplication of experiments.
The projects carried out on the themes of employment, health and mobility, with the support of private and public partners, have enabled us to consolidate a methodology and acquire certain convictions about the role of data in urban policy.
Digital technology and employment in priority urban districts: when inequalities intersect
Cahiers du développement social urbain devotes a special issue to dossier (more than twenty contributions) to the digital practices of residents in priority neighborhoods, particularly in terms of access to employment and training.
The first part of the dossier documents the situation of inhabitants of priority neighborhoods when it comes to digital inequalities.
The second part offers insights into how public policies are tackling the issue of digital transition, particularly in the field of professional integration. "The aim is to show what responses have been put in place, from the national to the local level, to help local residents make the digital transition to employment.
The third part looks at the employment opportunities offered by digital technology: "Can digital technology be a support, a response, not only to facilitate access to employment, but also to create jobs?
On January 1, 2022, of the 179,200 delivery drivers operating in France, one in four (24%) lived in a priority urban district (QPV)3. Similarly, of the 52,700 VTC drivers in operation on that date, almost one in five (19%) live in a QPV. The proportion of drivers living in a priority district is four times higher than that of the workforce as a whole.
Generally speaking, observes study author Hugo Botton, "it's in the neighborhoods most marked by economic fragility (poverty, inactivity, unemployment, part-time work) that there are the most delivery workers. Thus, the neighborhoods with the highest proportion of delivery workers are those which, in order, have a high proportion of immigrants, a high poverty rate, a low proportion of households with a car, are located in an EPCI (metropolis or intercommunality) characterized by a high presence of managers and many young people (18-24 and 25-39)".
Similarly, the neighborhoods with the most drivers among workers are located in a densely populated EPCI with a high proportion of managers, a high proportion of immigrants, a high proportion of car-owning households and a high poverty rate.
This over-representation of platform workers in working-class neighborhoods underlines the role these neighborhoods play in the local economy, concludes the author of the study. " Working-class neighborhoods are not all inactive or unemployed, as some caricatured views would have us believe. In fact, in 2020, 40% of people employed in QPVs were in occupations on the "front line of Covid-19".
Référence :
NEC: What role will digital mediation play in working-class neighborhoods after 2023?
As part of the 5th edition of Numérique en Commun[s], held on September 28, 2022 in Lens (Pas de Calais), a workshop examined digital inclusion issues specific to priority neighborhoods.
For the participants in this workshop, while digital inclusion and mediation actions are de facto present in a large number of city contracts, and while "ordinary law" public policies have been deployed (national strategy for inclusive digital, 150 "Fabriques de territoires" in QPVs, France service digital advisors...), institutional consideration of digital inclusion is still weak: it "is not yet contractually present in the city contract, and has neither objectives nor a suitable nomenclature".
"Urban policy often calls for thematic approaches. If digital inclusion is to be conceived as a cross-cutting public policy, some of the challenges of urban policy call for specific responses that involve mobilizing the know-how of digital mediation players to complement the action of players already present".
For the working group, "digital technology must permeate all city contracts, as a cross-cutting pillar and not as a specific axis. While this choice runs the risk of dilution, it creates shared requirements for all city contract stakeholders, and a genuine common culture that is necessary in a context where digital technology has become a total social fact".
In addition, the working group "demands that digital technology be perceived as a resource (capable of empowering players) and not just as a problem (that of digital inequalities)".
Enfin, " it calls for this pillar to benefit from a specific diagnosis and ongoing monitoring, both by project leaders and by city contract steering committees".