Building French and European digital resilience is a fundamental issue of sovereignty that goes far beyond digital issues alone. It also concerns defense, healthcare and education, for example.
In our "Digital Resilience" thematic dossierin 6 articles, we define the framework of our Digital Resilience as well as its challenges and components.
Building French and European digital resilience
Against a backdrop of globalization of digital activities, there is still a long way to go to build French and European digital resilience, given that
- the hegemony of American infrastructures (71% market share in France and 80% of growth captured)
- the proliferation of European regulations (DMA, DORA, NIS), which are not yet sufficiently end-user oriented (like RGPD) and therefore difficult to scale up.
In summary, we have identified 6 key challenges:
Developing sovereign solutions
Cloud, Meta, Cybersecurity: owners in strategic domains (defense, healthcare, education, etc.) to develop our expertise and support the emergence of a nation infrastructure (what is at stake in European protectionism?).
End-user-oriented regulations
...to facilitate appropriation (RGPD-type model), particularly in cybersecurity where policies today are very remediation/ex-post oriented. There is a national challenge of acculturation in terms of usage. The same applies to compliance and interconnectivity(multi-cloud and interoperability): it's by pushing for new requirements on the user side that companies' demands on their providers can evolve.
Supporting investment and developing Made in France in Web3 and AI
financing conditions for start-ups, ... and facilitate regulatory measures to facilitate investment (public procurement code)
Don't do it alone
Catching up with the American giants is illusory (at least when it comes to infrastructure and the cloud): we need to dig deeper and forge partnerships with hyperscalers to define local solutions with specific requirements.
Strengthening links between academia and industry to develop talent retention
Today, France knows how to train super-knowledgeable people, but doesn't retain them (salaries, weight of R&D investment, fabric of start-ups and support for innovation).
Making France and Europe an exemplary model in terms of digital sobriety
by developing innovative solutions (equipment, cooling) and in the use and storage of data.
The key challenges of digital resilience
Cybersecurity and procurement
Balancing the technological arms race with safety and trust
Training and retaining digital talent
Challenges for data storage and use/IA in the context of massive cloud development
Compliance and standards
France's connectivity and the resilience of our digital networks
