Connexions Solidaires — Emmaüs Connect's Device, Connectivity & Skills Network

Emmaüs Connect is a French nonprofit, founded in February 2013 by Charles-Edouard Vincent and Jean Deydier as part of the Emmaüs movement, to tackle digital exclusion among socially vulnerable populations. Its "Connexions Solidaires" programme combines three levers: affordable refurbished computers and phones sourced through the LaCollecte.tech reuse platform, subsidised mobile data and connectivity (with partners such as the SFR Foundation), and one-to-one digital-skills coaching delivered at physical access points and via a nationwide "Relais Numériques" network of partner social-work organisations.

By the end of 2024, the organisation had supported 208,815 people since its creation, including 12,000 digital devices distributed across 27 large-scale distribution events that year, through a network of more than 600 partner social structures. An earlier government profile (2019) recorded 30,000 people helped in the programme's first six years, 60% of them living in priority urban neighbourhoods, with recurring funding from the French state's territorial cohesion agency (then CGET).

Reported figures are self-published in Emmaüs Connect's annual activity reports rather than from an independent randomised evaluation. The organisation is referenced on the French government's ANCT "Bases du numérique d'intérêt général" platform as a recognised provider of digital-inclusion resources, and its own 2033 target — reaching 500,000 people — signals an explicit growth ambition that should be read as aspiration, not achieved result.