Good practice Imported

Orange - Digital Houses [Maisons Digitales]

France · Paris · Transnational · See the France profile

The Orange Foundation aims to improve the chances of vulnerable women with no or minimal qualifications in the labour market by offering the Women’s Digital Centres – “Maisons Digitales” programme. This programme proposes six months to one year of ICT training for women in variou

7,500

Women reached

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Orange Foundation — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children, Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 7500
People targeted: 250000
Period: 2017-01-09
Region (NUTS): FR10
Keywords: vulnerable, ICT, digital skills, entrpreneurship, training

Context

The Orange Foundation's 'Maisons Digitales' (Women's Digital Centres) programme offers 6-12 months of ICT training to vulnerable women with no or minimal qualifications, covering e-rights, digital parenting, workplace digital skills and, in France, complementary literacy/numeracy training.

Results

To date, 7,500 women have developed digital skills through the programme and are better prepared to access the job market or start their own entrepreneurial activity.

Implementation

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

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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Data sources

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

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

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

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. Orange - Digital Houses [Maisons Digitales]. Persistent ID: 16de0b10-6729-4a2f-9f21-e528c011ffec.

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