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Cloud Strategy: Infrastructures for the Data and AI Economy


Added by:   National contact point
Added on:   09 Jul 2025
Updated by:   OECD analyst
Updated on:   10 Jul 2025

A National Strategy supported by EU initiatives for levelling the playing field of French cloud providers in the path of a European sovereign cloud.

Name in original language

Stratégie Nationale pour le Cloud

Initiative overview

The initiative has the following objectives:

- Foster the use of trustworthy cloud for administrations, large entreprises and strategic entreprises to protect their sensible data.

- Allow French cloud providers to acquire a technological and commercial base for being competitive on actual market and ready for tomorrow.

- Develop the French data economy

- Supporting the effort of innovative French offers, including from free software

- Accelerating the scale-up of French players in critical technologies in high demand

- Intensifying the development of disruptive technologies by 2025, such as edge computing, to position the European sector as a future champion"

Name of responsible organisation (in English)

Directorate General for Enterprises (DGE; Direction générale des entreprises)

About the policy initiative


Organisation:

  • Directorate General for Enterprises (DGE; Direction générale des entreprises)

Category:

  • National – AI policy initiatives, regulations, guidelines, standards and programmes or projects

Initiative type:

  • Initiative to promote data access and sharing

Participating organisations:


Participating countries:


Status:

  • Active

Start Year:

  • 2021

Binding:

  • Non-binding

OECD AI Principles: