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And Tech suddenly burst into the presidential campaign. Sometimes described as the most tech-savvy president, Emmanuel Macron unveiled Thursday during the presentation of his program the measures envisaged for Digital in all its forms. He grouped a majority of them under the theme of “cultural and informational independence”.
“We will fight to build a European metaverse” first hammered the outgoing head of state, evoking these virtual worlds where users evolve with a digital double. “This is a key subject both obviously for creation, but also for the ability to allow all our creators, whatever their cultural field and their field of activity, to create and not depend on actors or Anglo-Saxon or Chinese aggregators who will be able to circumvent the rules of copyright”.
In part of his speech devoted to Education, he highlighted the suffering of children who are victims of school bullying which then continues online. The candidate LaREM evoked a voluntarist policy against cyberbullying by waving the possibility of prohibiting access “to screens and to these social networks for children and young adolescents”.
In addition to these measures, the candidate Macron called for protecting the youngest from the excesses of technology by empowering adults. “We too often put screens in the hands of our children from an early age, without having trained and protected them”, pointed out Emmanuel Macron. During his next term, he plans to put in place public policies to put in place “parental control of default screens”.
Finally, the candidate sprinkled his program with digital transformation measures by highlighting the generalization of the online complaint and the recruitment of 1,500 specialized cyber patrollers.