Digital data : a mater of education and citizenship

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Digital data : a mater of education and citizenship
Type of text :
Opinion
Type of referral :
Own initiative
Working group :
Section for Education, Culture and Communication
Date d'adoption
Date adopted : 01/13/2015
Rapporteur(s) :
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Eric PERES
CGT-FO Trade Union group
    Overview
    Présentation

    The digital revolution has opened up huge pathways and opportunities in terms of our everyday and domestic lives and in a variety of fields too (health, prevention, intelligent management of public spaces, facilitating daily life, democratic practice, etc.).

    In order to make them available to as great a proportion of the population as possible, the significant digital resources accessible on the Internet require a variety of different services to be put in place, from search engines and social networks to geolocation services, among other things. As the visible face of Big Data technologies, a limited number of players have now become valuable and indeed essential gateways for a significant number of online activities. With this in mind, such platforms have considerable influence over citizens and even States, whilst their economic weight gives them a certain power over many sectors of activity.