On the occasion of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, France Strategy deemed it "essential to question the recovery of activity from a perspective of environmental, social, economic and democratic sustainability of our development model". France Stratégie has
To this end, we have opened a space for contributions "for a sustainable future" in order to "bring out the paths and principles of a public action model for France after the crisis, integrating a long-term vision".
This contributory space is organized around seven themes:
- What expectations do we have of the public authorities in the face of risk?
- What social model to "deal with" our vulnerabilities?
- What human-nature interactions, globalization and pandemics?
- What relationships between knowledge, power and opinion?
- What interdependencies and what forms of autonomy at different scales?
- Which way to a sustainable economy?
- Digital: new uses, new questions
Digital: new uses, new questions
"The crisis we are going through makes us take the measure - on an unprecedented geographical and social scale - of the transformations that digital technologies bring. It underlines the place they have taken in our daily lives, but questions their impact in the political, economic and social spheres. What kind of digital world do we really want?This crisis confirms that digital technology contributes to the resistance of our societies to the current shock. Could containment be as economically and socially acceptable without the Internet? Probably not.But some digital drifts, identified before the crisis, need to be corrected to ensure the sustainability of our development model.Overnight, millions of employees or self-employed people have switched to telecommuting, millions of people have started distance learning or teleconsultation: never would such a development have occurred so quickly and with such a magnitude without the confinement. And overnight too, a thousand forms of online sociability have developed. All of this, not without inequalities: in digital skills, equipment and access to networks.What next? Tools and policies for a sustainable exit from the crisis
A large segment of civil society is expressing the desire for a transformation of our development model after the crisis. What role should digital technology play in this desirable transformation? How can digital technology contribute to the preparation of a more sustainable world, more sober and more durable? The exit from the crisis will have to deal with many issues, but it will also be necessary to "recompile the program" of our digital public policies. And if we don't succeed, what will be the price to pay for our public liberties, in terms of sovereignty, environmental impact, financial and economic dependence?France Stratégie proposes that the following questions be addressed as a matter of priority:
- How to reduce the environmental footprint of digital technology?
- How can we continue to deploy digital infrastructure?
- How to be less vulnerable to cyber attacks?
- How to base a strategy on data?
- How to develop a more sustainable digital economy?
- Reinventing and democratizing the uses and digitizing democracy?
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