Launch of the guide "Building your smart territory"

Just download it from the site www.firip.fr. It will also be distributed in print at federation events or delivered by hand during meetings with members.

These 60 pages, intended for elected officials and technicians of communities, are synthetic and didactic, enriched with advice and based on concrete examples. A year of collaborative work, which brought together 26 contributors. A practical methodology which aims to bring out and support smart projects in our country.

Because the challenge is there: “Today smart projects are still few and often on the scale of districts” explains Bérengère Mesqui, Director of the Sustainable and Digital Development department of France Strategy. However, all the players present on the occasion of this morning, under the patronage of Mounir Mahjoubi, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, agree that the challenge is indeed to build the territories of tomorrow. .

A gigantic project

And that implies a complete paradigm shift. "Our territories must move from a logic of project management, based on IT, to a control of use, based on digital and transversality" explains Luc Belot, Director General of Réalités Hub5 and former deputy of Maine et Loire, rapporteur for the Law on the Digital Republic. With a priority: quality service to citizens, and imperatives for success: a strong political will, a permanent dialogue with the ecosystem, citizen participation, data governance and real project management.

Preamble: infrastructure

This change in size is nonetheless based on a sine qua none condition: "we need a digital infrastructure based largely on optical fiber" recalls Etienne Dugas, President of FIRIP. This digital development, currently in full deployment in France (until 2022), is also behind the creation of the federation in 2012.

We therefore understand that FIRIP, which defends development for all, based on neutral and open networks, and on public-private co-investment, now includes smart territories projects as a continuation of its action, that is to say in the construction of this THD infrastructure and in its fight against any risk of new digital divide.

A turn that the federation intends to take with flying colors thanks to this guide which should be of great use to all communities. “We share a common goal which is to live better together. What if that was the definition of a smart territory? ... ” concludes Etienne Dugas.

Do not hesitate to download and relay this guide!