15 ways to make digital technology an accelerator of diversity

The report on digital diversity from the National Digital Council (Cnnum) and the association Diversidays specializing in digital inclusion, has just been handed over to the government. There has been involvement for 20 years in this improvement of diversity in the recruitment process. Thus, we can only welcome these proposals and the communication around them.

This report of 15 recommendations aims to strengthen the professional integration of citizens of rural areas and priority areas of the city in digital professions.

Here are the 15 ways to promote diversity in the territories.

These proposals are broken down into three main areas:

Guarantee information and access to training on digital opportunities for profiles from diverse backgrounds:

• Raise awareness among middle school students of digital opportunities as part of the guidance support provided from 4th grade.
• Establish a period or a period of national awareness around digital professions.
• Launch an action plan to train prescribers in digital skills and professions.
• Create a professional baccalaureate dedicated to the profession of a developer.
• Encourage large IT schools and digital training to develop a policy of social openness.
• Facilitate access to engineering and computer schools by communicating massively about student loans guaranteed by the state.
• Generalize apprenticeship or professionalization contracts in trades that require digital skills.
• Strengthen pupils ‘and students’ access to personal digital equipment.
• Extend the granting of financial assistance to people wishing to follow a qualifying digital training.

Rethinking and measuring the recruitment policy to respond to the lack of diversity in digital technology

• Encourage companies to rethink recruitment policies to combat stereotypes and discrimination in the employment field.
• Create an index to measure the company’s diversity policy at all levels.
• Systematically measure the sustainability of the professional integration of people who have benefited from support (including learners) in order to strengthen the funding of the most effective actions.

Strengthen the policy of revitalizing the territories

• Create a national working group to forecast digital skills needs in French Tech metropolises.
• Create and finance experimental projects encouraging equal opportunities and digital mediation associations to work with each other.
• Make local aid and exemptions conditional on local employment by companies.

“The opportunity is before us to become a tech champion nation thanks to the diversity of our talents! ”