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Trip to Guiana for fixed and mobile connectivity talks
Arcep Chair, Laure de La Raudière, along with Arcep’s “Connected Territories” department, will be travelling to Guiana for several days, to take stock of the issues specific to this vast territory, 96% of which is forest. Bespoke regional development has been examined for the most isolated communities, to be able to provide the local population with high-quality connectivity. This includes using alternative ultrafast solutions to fibre. Guiana is also a strategic territory, home to a submarine cable that connects to Portugal, and recently became a member of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU).
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AI Summit Forum on AI’s environmental footprint
Parallel to the Summit’s main discussions between heads of State and government and public figures on the overarching shared actions to be taken, close to 100 other events will be taking place that are open to everyone (civil society, businesses, administrations, associations, etc…). One of these events, a forum hosted by the Ministry for the Green Transition, will explore AI’s environmental footprint and the actions that need to be taken to make it sustainable.
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Delivery of the FNCCR Com’Publics Guide to “Safeguarding ethical, sovereign and safe digital technology”
The Arcep Executive Board will attend the presentation of the FNCCR (National Federation of local authorities for network-based services) and Com’Publics Guide on “Safeguarding ethical, sovereign and safe digital technology” to which Arcep contributed. The purpose of this guide is to explain to businesses and public sector players why it is so crucial to adopt reliable solutions that protect individual freedoms for local authorities and their users. It also provides a primer on European regulations such as NIS2 (which ANSSI presented in last year’s November issue of The Post).
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Event on the issues surrounding access to the infrastructures and energy required by AI as part of the AI Summit
A satellite event to the AI Summit is being hosted by AFNUM at the Canadian Embassy, with special guest, Clara Chappaz, the Deputy Minister responsible for AI and digital technology, and Arcep Chair, Laure de La Raudière. It will be devoted to the availability of the infrastructures and energy needed to deploy AI.
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Future Generations Tribunal: “Can AI save the planet?”
At the AI Summit being held in Paris from 6 to 11 February, Arcep is teaming up with eight other institutions to host a free and open event on AI’s environmental footprint: the “Future generations tribunal” (TGF). TGF is a format created by the magazine Usbek & Rica that borrows from a courtroom trial to interrogate and debate issues that imbue our present and shape our future. After a series of testimonies, oral and closing arguments, the public will deliver its verdict, can AI (yes or no) be part of our climate change objectives?
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Tour of a France Messagerie sorting and processing centre
Arcep’s Executive Board visited a France Messagerie “multiproduct processing centre”. The company explained its business, along with the pathway and processing of press publications inside this logistics centre, from intake to shipping to the specific areas where these publications are distributed.
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CES (Consumer Electronics Show)
Arcep Chair, Laure de La Raudière, and three Arcep staff members attended CES, “the most powerful tech event in the world,” which is held every year in Las Vegas. The goal for the Arcep delegation was to take the pulse of emerging digital practices, to gauge future connectivity needs and to take stock of the latest developments in tech market regulation in the US, through bilateral meetings with startups, major corporations and American institutions. Among the key themes of this year’s CES were digital health (personal assistance and wellness services) and mobility (autonomous vehicles, smart shuttle sharing).
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Talk at the presentation of the Barometer of “Fibre in the workplace”
Arcep Executive Board member, Xavier Merlin, spoke at a conference devoted to introducing the upcoming publication of the 2024 Barometer of “Fibre in the workplace” produced by IFOP on behalf of Covage and Infranum. This barometer – of which a sneak peek was given to the Banque des Territoires – tracks developments in the fibre access market for businesses, providing the ability to measure fibre adoption in the workplace.
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Keynote at the Digital Marketing Forum
Arcep Executive Board member, Xavier Merlin, delivered a keynote at the session on “the user experience in the age of ecodesign” at the Forum du Marketing Digital, hosted by Alliance Digitale. He discussed the main Arcep, ADEME and Arcom findings on digital technology’s impact on the environment, and the recommendations that were published this year in the General policy framework for the ecodesign of digital services (RGESN). Representatives from France Télévisions, from national railway company, SNCF, digital applications and a Publicis agency then discussed how they have appropriated these recommendations into their operations.
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Participation in the 2024 ‘Presse & Médias au Futur’ conference
Sarah Jacquier-Pelissier, member of the Arcep College, spoke at the lunch organised on 4 December as part of the 2024 edition of the ‘Presse & Médias au Futur’ conference. She described the work carried out by the Authority over the past year in the area of press distribution, in particular the work carried out to define the cost accounting rules applicable to approved distribution companies and the work carried out to set the remuneration conditions for newsagents.
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