Digital economy

About the Digital Economy Unit

ADETEF Digital Economy Unit offers expertise to institutional partners across the globe regarding the Internet, information systems, telecommunications, e-government, electronic banking and ICT-led economic development.

It replies to international invitations to tender for technical assistance and provides support for French businesses in the digital sector wanting to increase French influence in this field.

Three geographical areas are currently of particular interest: the French-speaking world (sub-Saharan Africa and Vietnam), Europe (both for providers of expertise and for partners) and the Mediterranean Basin.

In addition to its in-house team, ADETEF Digital Economy Unit draws on the skills of some fifty co-contractors and subcontractors. The Club Exportic, now bringing together over 500 French experts and businesses working internationally in the field of information and communication technologies, is helping to develop the knowledge-based economy.

Broad outlines of international cooperation

The following are some of Adetef’s digital economy missions since the unit was set up at the beginning of 2008.

  • Technical study for promoting ICTs in the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia)
  • Economic portal for the International Organisation of La Francophonie 
  • ICT development plan for Algerian industry as part of a mission for the Algerian minister,
  • PEPPOL-France : Management of the PEPPOL-France consortium (and blog.peppol.fr) to make e-procurement interoperable across Europe, within the broader scope of the PEPPOL consortium
  • E-business:  Identification of e-business best practice among European SMEs and publication in the 23 European Union languages of a booklet "Learning from peers / E-business cases". It can be downloaded from the www.epme.eu website, which also contains 200 best e-practices in SMEs in the European Union’s 27 countries.
  • Secure online transactions: Support for member businesses of the TES Pool (secure e-dealings) to help them reach international markets of expertise, for secure online transactions in the fields of electronic banking and e-government and thus secure a faster return on their R&D investment.

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