After attracting 92,000 young people in 2016, then 125,000 in 2017, 140,000 in 2018, the Civic Service Agency plans to attract 140,000 in 2019. In 2018, more than 1,100 organizations were approved to host young people on Civic Service: non-profit organizations, local authorities and other legal entities under public law, mixed economy companies, social utility solidarity companies...
The Agence du service civique website allows volunteers to identify the missions and positions that interest them before submitting their application.
At the beginning of December, the search engine site of the Civic Service Agency proposed 1,239 missions (5% of the total number of proposals) and 3,158 positions (out of a total of 71,923, i.e. 4.4%) with a digital focus: the term digital is explicitly mentioned in the mission title.
These are mainly missions and positions (an organization can call upon several volunteers for a mission) in the fields of accompaniment, mediation, training or digital initiation.
77% of the missions (69% of the positions) are described as solidarity and 16% of the missions (27% of the positions) as Education for All.
A zoom on the designation of the 1,239 missions (and 3,158 associated positions) that explicitly refer to digital highlights the diversity of missions.
467 proposed positions describe the mission as that of a digital ambassador, with a wide variety of variations: digital ambassador, user and digital ambassador, digital culture ambassador, digital 2.0 ambassador, educational digital ambassador, digital tool ambassador for all, digital culture ambassador, digital ambassador for town halls and civil registry, digital ambassador for access to rights, digital care book ambassador, digital ambassador
1,059 proposed positions describe the mission as that of a " companion " or to " accompany" individuals.
95 positions offered explicitly mention the functions of " digital mediator" or " digital mediation" .
The verbs that appear most often in the description of the mission are "accompany" (68% of missions), " facilitate" (66%) and " guide " (26%)
Unis Cité (an association that acts as an intermediary between the young volunteers it employs and the local authorities with which they perform their civic service), is the main recruiter of young volunteers for the "explicitly digital" missions (with 389 missions and 614 positions), ahead of Pôle Emploi.
If we go into the details of the mission sheets, whether or not their title refers to digital technology, we can see that a growing number of missions have a strong digital component, such as supporting people in dealing with paperless procedures.
This is the case, in particular, for the 368 positions offered at the beginning of December by the Prefectures, whose purpose is to " accompany users in the services of the Prefectures": the mission sheets mention, for example, "that the volunteer will be able to guide and help people who have difficulties with computers ", that he or she will accompany users in the use of the new digital tools by helping them to use the new dematerialized supports, to make them autonomous in the use of digital tools, and to help them to get to grips with the services offered".
