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Conseillers Numériques France Services

French national programme deploying 4,000 digital advisors in France Services centres and community spaces to support citizens with low digital skills; €200M investment; 97% of users felt they progressed; 43% aged over 70; 93% completed tasks they could not do before.

4,000

Digital advisors deployed

€200M

Investment

97%

Users who felt they progressed

43%

Users aged over 70

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT)
Period: 2021–present
Keywords: digital exclusion, low digital skills, older adults, low-education adults, public services access

Context

Conseillers Numériques France Services is a French national programme deploying digital advisors in France Services centres and community spaces to support citizens with low digital skills.

Results

With a €200M investment and 4,000 advisors, 97% of users felt they progressed and 93% completed tasks they could not do before; 43% of users were aged over 70.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT) — accessed 2026-06-21
ANCT/Société Numérique evaluation report — accessed 2026-06-21
Acteurs Publics analysis (independent policy press) — accessed 2026-06-21
Banque des Territoires overview — accessed 2026-06-21

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Quality score: 92/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 6% in this catalogue (573 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

National-scale deployment of 4,000 dedicated digital mediation roles embedded in territorial community structures and co-designed with local authorities represents a distinctly novel and ambitious public model.

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

70% of advisor positions renewed with continued state funding; 60% of host organisations had no equivalent role before the programme, indicating structural embedding.

Evaluation evidence1/1

Formal independent evaluation by ANCT/Askoria/Asdo études using mixed methods (surveys + qualitative fieldwork in 5 territories) found 97% of users reported making progress.

Demonstrated reach1/1

4,000 advisors deployed nationally serving a population skewing toward 70+ year-olds (43%) and adults without baccalaureate (59%), the most digitally excluded groups.

Documented learning1/1

Published evaluation reports detail barriers and success factors from 5 diverse territories, explicitly designed to inform replication and adaptation in other regions and countries.

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