This post introduces a series of reflections that are part of a research-action approach by which the Digital Society Program of the French Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT) wishes to deepen the relevance and the terms of use of Public Interest Groups (GIP) for the support of digital commons initiated or joined by a public actor. In particular, the aim is to expose the advantages of these structures for the purpose of carrying digital commons, but also to reveal or propose possible solutions to the various limitations encountered by actors in the field.

A two-step methodology was used, based on bibliographic research and various interviews and workshops, to identify "irritants" (in the sense of anything that can slow down or block the creation of such GIPs in a commons context) on the one hand, and the formalization of possible solutions on the other.

This work mobilizes and completes various pre-existing resources, to which it refers as much as necessary:

• the important educational work and tools developed under the direction of the General Directorate of Public Finance, and in particular the model GIP constitutive agreement;
• the resources developed by the ANCT concerning the digital commons:
  
  • infographics NEC x BAM x inno³
    
  • Tutorial to the digital commons
    
  • Overview of the digital commons
    
  • Posts published on the Digital Society Laboratory