Virgile Deville, DINUM
Virgile Deville is a civic tech entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Source Politics, the principal integrator of Decidim, a FOSS citizen participation platform. Since 2023, he now advises the French Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) with its programs to foster collaboration with digital commons: the Citizens' Initiative Accelerator (Beta Gouv) and the Digital Commons Fund (La Suite). He teaches “Digital Commons and Public Policy” at Sciences Po Paris.
Session
On February 7th, France and Germany announced that they were collaborating on a sovereign digital suite based on open-source and interoperable solutions, aiming to create a coherent and comprehensive range of digital tools for public agents, including an instant messaging service based on Matrix.
In France, this effort is lead by DINUM. We will present this new approach and how we intend to take part in open source communities to help finance, maintain and support the development of open source solutions used by public agents.