2024-06-12 –, Main stage
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.
Tristan Nitot is an entrepreneur, book author and hacktivist who has been involved the the Mozilla project (Firefox) since its early days. He has co-founded and was president of Mozilla Europe. He was then in charge of advocacy for the Qwant European search engine before becoming its CEO. After a quick stint as Scaleway's Sustainability Lead, he is now associate director for digital commons and Anthropocene. Tristan is deeply concerned about climate change and as such he is the producer and host of the Octet Vert podcast in French, which aims at exploring the complex relationship between digital and climate change.
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.