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Marianne : « Cocorico! Fifteen French tech companies certified in Numérique France Garanti»… And LINAGORA is proud to be among the actors who helped launch this certification!
Beyond this recognition, the article highlights the growing importance of the term “digital sovereignty.” At the end of last year, during Open Source Pro 9 (the 10th edition is coming soon), we placed the event under a motto: from words to action. Even though there is still much to do, it is clear that momentum is building.
Today, the signals are multiplying:
- The first Village of Digital Sovereignty at VivaTech.
- The launch of the Numérique France Garanti certification.
- The European package on technological sovereignty.
- The second study by the consultancy Asterès for Cigref, which finally documents the scale of our digital dependence (and, complementing the first study, examines the effect of price hikes).
- The transformation of the Inter‑ministerial Directorate for Digital (DINUM) into ARIANE, marking a new step in structuring the state’s digital strategy, etc.
And this sentence from the newspaper perhaps best sums up the moment we are living through: “In Brussels, strategic European preference is no longer a taboo. It was time!”
Marianne also reminds us that by producing only 15 % of the cloud services and software currently bought from the United States, Europe could create more than 463,000 additional jobs on its own territory. A figure that makes you think, and we can add another one:
Out of roughly €400 billion spent each year in Europe on professional software and cloud services, about €264 billion goes directly to the American economy, even though almost 80 % of the value created leaves our continent.
Since the Village of Digital Sovereignty, Alexandre Zapolsky repeatedly quoted a formula that is becoming widely known:
“Our clicks are our jobs”
What this article tells goes far beyond LINAGORA or the companies involved in Numérique France Garanti. It narrates perhaps the moment when digital sovereignty stops being a conviction held by a few and gradually becomes a collective project.
Thanks to Laurence Dequay and the Marianne team for shedding light on this issue.
