Conseil national du numérique

The Conseil national du numérique (French Digital Council, abbreviated CNNum or less commonly CNN) is a French independent advisory commission created on 29 April 2011 by the French presidential decree n°2011-476. It was reorganized and expanded by another French presidential decree on 13 December 2012, to expand its spectrum of actions to all the questions set up by the development of the digital in society and economy.

The Council issues independent opinions and recommendations on any question relating to the impact of digital technologies on economy and society. The government can consult the Council on new legislation or draft regulations.

The Council's thirty members come from across the digital spectrum, and include researchers and activists. The Council organises public consultations at both local and national level, and is in constant contact with France's digital ecosystem, including elected officials, members of civil society, researchers, digital experts, entrepreneurs and professional organisations.

The French Digital Council is composed of 30 members appointed by a decree issued by the President of the French Republic dated 3 february 2016.

The French Digital Council is composed of 30 members appointed by a decree issued by the President of the French Republic dated 17 January 2013.

On 4 September 2014, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls asked the Conseil national du numérique to hold a national concertation on the digital and its related topics. On the government side, this initiative was followed by the Secretary of State in charge of the Digital, Axelle Lemaire, and the Secretary of State in charge of the Reform of the State and of the Simplification, at the time Thierry Mandon, before being replaced at that Secretary by Clotilde Valter in June 2015.

This initiative was notable as it was a novel experimentation of public policy building at the time in France. The Conseil national du numérique used for this goal an online platform conceived with the association Démocratie Ouverte, which permitted to every citizen, public or private organization to contribute to the proposed 26 consultations. The Conseil divided those consultations between 4 main themes:

At the end of the consultation phase, the Conseil published open syntheses open to comments for each consultation, tracing back the great controversies and the proposed plans for action that emerged, and in a way as neutral as possible.

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