By becoming a member of the DPGA, a multi-stakeholder initiative supported by the United Nations, France is partnering with a worldwide community of stakeholders to advertise the event and deployment of digital public items. These open-source options (software program, knowledge units, AI methods, content material collections) enable higher interoperability, privateness and practices, paving the best way for digital providers to respect basic rights, assist cut back the digital divide and obtain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Ministry’s partnership with the Alliance might be structured round two precedence areas, extending the initiatives already undertaken by French digital diplomacy:
1. Fostering worldwide dialogue in assist of public items. France will leverage its diplomatic community to actively promote worldwide cooperation for digital commons. Rooted in a agency perception in an inclusive, multi-stakeholder governance, this dedication is the continuation of France’s efforts to determine widespread ideas for the digital phrase. These embody the endorsement of the United Nations’ Open Source Principles, the creation of the Current AI basis to steer synthetic intelligence in direction of the general public curiosity, and the French-German cooperation to construct an interoperable public digital ecosystem (“La Suite Numérique”).
2. Supporting and selling French and European digital commons. France commits to selling options developed inside its ecosystem as concrete contributions to the worldwide neighborhood. An emblematic instance is the State-incubated startup “Open Terms Archive,” an important digital widespread that ensures the traceability of very giant on-line platforms phrases and situations, thus permitting transparency of digital providers and safety of customers’ rights on-line. The DPGA membership will enable higher cooperation following the mannequin of the “In_Fra_Structures” occasion, which brings collectively consultants and companions from each France and India to debate and develop concrete cooperation within the fields of schooling and well being. Moreover, France will actively assist different initiatives from its ecosystem, such because the AI mannequin comparator “Compar:IA”, of their technique of being acknowledged as digital public items.
Through this membership, France intends to play an lively function in constructing a shared path of digital public items to serve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through this membership, France intends to play an lively function in constructing a shared path of digital public items to serve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“France’s membership of the DPGA will deliver a worldwide enhance to the digital commons idea, the place digital public items are stewarded by way of extra inclusive and collaborative governance fashions. At a time when each worldwide cooperation and worldwide growth help are below strain, France’s dedication to advertise open supply applied sciences for the worldwide public curiosity is actually inspiring”, says Liv Marte Nordhaug, CEO of the DPGA Secretariat.
