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Digital Pact, Fing, #Act4New .... imagine the digital future

Published on 25 May 2020
Update on 26 September 2022
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No one was prepared for such a crisis. So we had to improvise. These two months of confinement revealed the contribution of digital technology in dealing with an exceptional situation.

Containment has proven that work can be done remotely, for some occupations barriers have fallen and constraints are better known. Telecommuting will not disappear.

To relieve hospital overcrowding, while facilitating the work of medical staff, a new digital care pathway has been set up in a few weeks.

870,000 teachers switched to distance learning in a few days. Those of them whose practices were already based on alternative formats such as flipped classrooms were better prepared. Distance learning will continue in the coming weeks. laboratory to think about the future of the school.

This all-out mobilization of digital tools has also revealed a certain number of fractures: social (due to the lower level of equipment of a part of the population and the difficulty of embracing new uses), professional, with operational staff who quickly found themselves on the front line because of the need to be able to telework.

This is the time for feedback. The time of " testimony", according to Eric Sadin. " The one that tells the situations lived from the experience of the field, in the places where the troubles of the time are so cruelly felt: hospitals, companies, schools, destitute households, idle beings, disinherited suburbs...

This is also a time of calls to rethink digital.

Rather than a rupture, containment seems to normalize a pre-existing state, intensifying the reign of digital domination over our lives

"Among the multiple consequences of confinement - radicalization of inequalities and dramatic recession - isn't the most surprising a certain permanence of things rather than their upheaval, wonder Mariane de Douhet and Stéphane Héliot in Usbek & Rika.Rather than a rupture, containment seems to normalize a pre-existing state, intensifying the reign of digital domination over our lives (...) In short, it breaks less with the habits of digital man than it prolongs them: IRL exchanges were already largely shaped by social networks, family and friend communities existed mainly thanks to their WhatsApp groups. For a majority of society, sharing the virtual - even minimally - was already second nature. Containment may be an undeniably unprecedented moment, but it completes the victory of digital platforms over real life - that already ailing competitor whose defeat the virus has completed and revealed. We had the choice to use social networks, we are now forced to do so (if we don't want to be totally isolated)....If economically the confinement causes serious difficulties, existentially it seems less to revolutionize than to complete the perspectives of the connected human. Its radicality, too, is less to do with its exceptional character than with the point of achievement to which it brings this digital disposition of contemporary man. And this masks the possible nuances: if digital sharing is in the majority in France, the capacities to use these new technologies are not equally shared.

Référence :

FING: The current crisis encourages us to reinvent digital technology

At the Fing, we are, like many others, weakened by this unexpected situation," observes Jacques-François Marchandise, " But we are strengthened in the mission that is ours and that we have built with you: to question today's digital technology in the perspective of tomorrow's world.The new Digital All Risks expedition , imagined in 2019 and which we are launching this spring, will specifically question the relationship to risks, crises and disasters, in a forward-looking manner but with very real terrain, with the ambition of forging paths for the future.The three programs that we are currently carrying are updated.
  • Because personal data is a major issue of the crisis, self data, on a territorial scale as well as on the global scale of mydata.org, is a major field of work for the actors of the city, health and education.
  • Because maximizing profits in a world of limited resources is an obsolete and dangerous approach to innovation, impact innovation is more than ever a field to be worked on and strengthened (Innovation Factor 4), and the ecological transition is a horizon that must modify digital technology and use it.
  • Because social inequalities are aggravated by the crisis and raise questions of educational equity, territorial disparities and isolation, and because dematerialization brings with it both potential and difficulties, work on a digital capacity (Capacity Lab) is an imperative necessity.

    • Références :

Pact for the Digital Economy: 7 proposals from Cigref, Syntec Numérique, Syntec Conseil and Tech in France

For Cigref, Syntec Numérique, Syntec Conseil and Tech In France, "digital technology was one of the main shock absorbers of the economic crisis, and it will be the main driver of its recovery, subject to certain conditions that they have set out to identify.

The four associations call on "public authorities, representative trade unions and employers' organizations, and the driving forces of French society, to seize the Digital Pact to implement it in the service of a triple ambition: to get out of the crisis, revive the economy and act for the future.

  • Establish an interdepartmental authority for the Digital Pact.
  • Extend the digital tax surcharge scheme to all companies and all digital modernization projects, for investments made over the 2020-2022 period, and create a digital transformation tax credit.
  • Target public and private investments in digital technology according to criteria of strategic independence, digital sobriety, resilience and protection.
  • To rethink the rationale of partial activity in order to give this crisis mechanism the capacity to preserve activity at the same time as employment.
  • Support the employment of young graduates, strengthen training and promote gender diversity.
  • Develop strategic digital assets to reduce the European Union's technological dependence and strengthen confidence in cyberspace.
  • Inventing new forms of work.

Référence :

#Act4New: to identify post-containment issues

"While the entire planet is affected by the Covid-19 epidemic and no sector of activity is spared, the question of post-containment and possible new waves arises. Digital technology appears to be a lever, through the innovations it brings and the uses it allows, to prepare and organize the post-containment period, prevent new waves of contagion and participate in the post-crisis recovery.

Syntec Numérique and its partners are organizing the initiative: an ideathon (a collection of ideas to identify post-containment issues) and a hackathon.

  • How to move in a Covid-19 context?
  • What customer relationship in this context of Covid-19?
  • How can we help with the retraining or training of teams on short-time working?
  • Work and school life at home: Which services? What place for digital to reconcile the two?
  • Short circuits and perishable products? What role can digital technology play in supporting this economy?
  • How to make telework sustainable, efficient, and a creator of links and values in the long term?

Référence :

Crisis or no crisis, we always need open knowledge

In this moment of crisis, as Lionel Maurel (Deputy Scientific Director, InSHS-CNRS), Silvère Mercier (committed to the transformation of public action and the commons of capabilities), and Julien Dorra (co-founder of Museomix) observe, we are rediscovering the importance of access to knowledge and culture. And we see, with even more evidence, the great inequalities that exist among the population in access to knowledge. The Internet, which sometimes seems to be nothing more than a tool for distraction and mass surveillance, is regaining its function as an active and living source of knowledge. A universal media library, where the sharing and the collective creation of knowledge are done in the same movement.Faced with this exceptional situation, cultural or research institutions, sometimes joined by private companies, are choosing to open their content more widely. We have thus seen publishers give direct online access to part of their catalog. In France, several library associations and research institutions have asked scientific publishers to make all the journals they publish available to encourage the circulation of knowledge and research. In the United States, the NGO Internet Archive has announced the launch of a National Emergency Library, free of all the usual limitations, which makes 1.4 million digitized works available for digital loan. (...)When the peak of this crisis has passed in France, will we have to go back and forget the importance of free and open access to knowledge? To research data? To teaching and textbooks? To the digitized collections of museums and libraries?

The four authors of this manifesto propose, in conclusion, that the State engage, in the prolongation of the National Plan for Open Science, an approach of the same nature: national plans for Open Culture, for Open Education, for Open Health.

Référence :

Sources

Digital Pact, Fing, #Act4New .... imagine the digital future

No one was prepared for such a crisis. So we had to improvise. These two months of confinement revealed the contribution of digital technology in dealing with an exceptional situation.

Containment has proven that work can be done remotely, for some occupations barriers have fallen and constraints are better known. Telecommuting will not disappear.

To relieve hospital overcrowding, while facilitating the work of medical staff, a new digital care pathway has been set up in a few weeks.

870,000 teachers switched to distance learning in a few days. Those of them whose practices were already based on alternative formats such as flipped classrooms were better prepared. Distance learning will continue in the coming weeks. laboratory to think about the future of the school.

This all-out mobilization of digital tools has also revealed a certain number of fractures: social (due to the lower level of equipment of a part of the population and the difficulty of embracing new uses), professional, with operational staff who quickly found themselves on the front line because of the need to be able to telework.

This is the time for feedback. The time of " testimony", according to Eric Sadin. " The one that tells the situations lived from the experience of the field, in the places where the troubles of the time are so cruelly felt: hospitals, companies, schools, destitute households, idle beings, disinherited suburbs...

This is also a time of calls to rethink digital.

Rather than a rupture, containment seems to normalize a pre-existing state, intensifying the reign of digital domination over our lives

"Among the multiple consequences of confinement - radicalization of inequalities and dramatic recession - isn't the most surprising a certain permanence of things rather than their upheaval, wonder Mariane de Douhet and Stéphane Héliot in Usbek & Rika.Rather than a rupture, containment seems to normalize a pre-existing state, intensifying the reign of digital domination over our lives (...) In short, it breaks less with the habits of digital man than it prolongs them: IRL exchanges were already largely shaped by social networks, family and friend communities existed mainly thanks to their WhatsApp groups. For a majority of society, sharing the virtual - even minimally - was already second nature. Containment may be an undeniably unprecedented moment, but it completes the victory of digital platforms over real life - that already ailing competitor whose defeat the virus has completed and revealed. We had the choice to use social networks, we are now forced to do so (if we don't want to be totally isolated)....If economically the confinement causes serious difficulties, existentially it seems less to revolutionize than to complete the perspectives of the connected human. Its radicality, too, is less to do with its exceptional character than with the point of achievement to which it brings this digital disposition of contemporary man. And this masks the possible nuances: if digital sharing is in the majority in France, the capacities to use these new technologies are not equally shared.

Référence :

FING: The current crisis encourages us to reinvent digital technology

At the Fing, we are, like many others, weakened by this unexpected situation," observes Jacques-François Marchandise, " But we are strengthened in the mission that is ours and that we have built with you: to question today's digital technology in the perspective of tomorrow's world.The new Digital All Risks expedition , imagined in 2019 and which we are launching this spring, will specifically question the relationship to risks, crises and disasters, in a forward-looking manner but with very real terrain, with the ambition of forging paths for the future.The three programs that we are currently carrying are updated.
  • Because personal data is a major issue of the crisis, self data, on a territorial scale as well as on the global scale of mydata.org, is a major field of work for the actors of the city, health and education.
  • Because maximizing profits in a world of limited resources is an obsolete and dangerous approach to innovation, impact innovation is more than ever a field to be worked on and strengthened (Innovation Factor 4), and the ecological transition is a horizon that must modify digital technology and use it.
  • Because social inequalities are aggravated by the crisis and raise questions of educational equity, territorial disparities and isolation, and because dematerialization brings with it both potential and difficulties, work on a digital capacity (Capacity Lab) is an imperative necessity.

    • Références :

Pact for the Digital Economy: 7 proposals from Cigref, Syntec Numérique, Syntec Conseil and Tech in France

For Cigref, Syntec Numérique, Syntec Conseil and Tech In France, "digital technology was one of the main shock absorbers of the economic crisis, and it will be the main driver of its recovery, subject to certain conditions that they have set out to identify.

The four associations call on "public authorities, representative trade unions and employers' organizations, and the driving forces of French society, to seize the Digital Pact to implement it in the service of a triple ambition: to get out of the crisis, revive the economy and act for the future.

  • Establish an interdepartmental authority for the Digital Pact.
  • Extend the digital tax surcharge scheme to all companies and all digital modernization projects, for investments made over the 2020-2022 period, and create a digital transformation tax credit.
  • Target public and private investments in digital technology according to criteria of strategic independence, digital sobriety, resilience and protection.
  • To rethink the rationale of partial activity in order to give this crisis mechanism the capacity to preserve activity at the same time as employment.
  • Support the employment of young graduates, strengthen training and promote gender diversity.
  • Develop strategic digital assets to reduce the European Union's technological dependence and strengthen confidence in cyberspace.
  • Inventing new forms of work.

Référence :

#Act4New: to identify post-containment issues

"While the entire planet is affected by the Covid-19 epidemic and no sector of activity is spared, the question of post-containment and possible new waves arises. Digital technology appears to be a lever, through the innovations it brings and the uses it allows, to prepare and organize the post-containment period, prevent new waves of contagion and participate in the post-crisis recovery.

Syntec Numérique and its partners are organizing the initiative: an ideathon (a collection of ideas to identify post-containment issues) and a hackathon.

  • How to move in a Covid-19 context?
  • What customer relationship in this context of Covid-19?
  • How can we help with the retraining or training of teams on short-time working?
  • Work and school life at home: Which services? What place for digital to reconcile the two?
  • Short circuits and perishable products? What role can digital technology play in supporting this economy?
  • How to make telework sustainable, efficient, and a creator of links and values in the long term?

Référence :

Crisis or no crisis, we always need open knowledge

In this moment of crisis, as Lionel Maurel (Deputy Scientific Director, InSHS-CNRS), Silvère Mercier (committed to the transformation of public action and the commons of capabilities), and Julien Dorra (co-founder of Museomix) observe, we are rediscovering the importance of access to knowledge and culture. And we see, with even more evidence, the great inequalities that exist among the population in access to knowledge. The Internet, which sometimes seems to be nothing more than a tool for distraction and mass surveillance, is regaining its function as an active and living source of knowledge. A universal media library, where the sharing and the collective creation of knowledge are done in the same movement.Faced with this exceptional situation, cultural or research institutions, sometimes joined by private companies, are choosing to open their content more widely. We have thus seen publishers give direct online access to part of their catalog. In France, several library associations and research institutions have asked scientific publishers to make all the journals they publish available to encourage the circulation of knowledge and research. In the United States, the NGO Internet Archive has announced the launch of a National Emergency Library, free of all the usual limitations, which makes 1.4 million digitized works available for digital loan. (...)When the peak of this crisis has passed in France, will we have to go back and forget the importance of free and open access to knowledge? To research data? To teaching and textbooks? To the digitized collections of museums and libraries?

The four authors of this manifesto propose, in conclusion, that the State engage, in the prolongation of the National Plan for Open Science, an approach of the same nature: national plans for Open Culture, for Open Education, for Open Health.

Référence :

Sources

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Digital Pact, Fing, #Act4New .... imagine the digital future