“Ilectronism”: This is the word for the inability to use everyday digital objects. It affects one in three French people, or 16 million people, where there were just 13 million five years ago. These are the conclusions of the 2022 report of the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), broadcast by Ouest France.
“This proportion is not decreasing” and “it is even increasing compared to 2020,” says Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications, who commissioned this survey. It was carried out by two research centers, Cread (on education, learning and didactics), and Credoc (in charge of the study and observation of living conditions).
The least qualified people are the most affected, as are those who live in rural areas. “The French who find difficulties with digital uses are twice as numerous among workers as managers, among non-graduates as graduates, in rural municipalities than in the Paris agglomeration”, explains Jean-Noël Barrot, interviewed by West France .
Young people are not spared either. One person under the age of 25 in five is far from being digital, and this is third class, explains the minister. “That’s what the results of the digital skills tests that students take after high school say,” she explains.
20,000 “digital helpers” by 2027
To remedy this, the government promises the establishment of 20,000 digital assistants deployed in 25,000 places. “This system, which we want to implement at the end of the five-year period, in 2027, should allow 8 million people in difficulty to become familiar with digital technology, be accompanied to be more autonomous and, therefore, more free with the tools. computers and on the Internet,” says Jean-Noël Barrot.
4,000 “digital advisors” have already been hired since the launch of the program in 2021, employees “with communities, French service houses, associations, chambers of agriculture”. These future digital assistants “will be hired by the structures that host them, but their training and part of their salary will be covered by subsidies”, specifies the minister.
Lastly, Jean-Noël Barrot states that his objective is to “guarantee the right to very high speed for all from 2025”.
Source: BFM TV
