For the Digital Future: Government Trials an Install Party

Set for April 8, 2025 at the Public Transformation Center for an onboarding into the State’s application ecosystem.

That was the promise from the DINUM (Direction interministérielle du numérique) and the ANCT (Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires). The event was dedicated to La Suite Numérique, this project of a “sovereign workspace” tied to the continuity of SNAP (Sac à dos numérique de l’agent public).

Officially, it was an install party. With, indeed, workshops “to lift the barriers to integration.” A track was devoted to ProConnect, the State’s SSO. Among the other building blocks of La Suite Numérique, Docs, Visio and Grist were highlighted in particular. Their common thread: they are currently in beta, unlike Tchap or France Transfert.

🚀 Docs, Visio, Grist, … sovereign collaborative tools tested by public servants during the first Install Party edition.
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The event was also, to borrow the words of the Territories Incubator (affiliated with the ANCT), an opportunity to strengthen the interoperability of the State’s application ecosystem.

The Territorial Suite, a variant planned for 2026

Built on Matrix and hosted on the Interior Ministry’s Pi cloud, Tchap is the “old” member of La Suite Numérique (launched in 2018). In March, it gathered roughly 300,000 active users, mainly across the Interior Ministry (108,000), Education (57,000), the Armed Forces (46,000) and Finance (33,000).

Launched in 2022, France Transfert is hosted by OUTSCALE.

Somewhere between a spreadsheet and a database management tool, Grist is not French-made, but the ANCT and the DINUM have contributed “significant” code contributions.

Docs is for its part the result of a “joint effort of the French and German governments.” It relies notably on the BlockNote text editor. As for Visio, it is built on LiveKit, another open-source project.

ProConnect provides access to supplementary services drawn from the State’s sphere (AudioConf, WebConf, Webinar, Resana…) and beyond.

A variant named La Suite Territoriale is offered free of charge to municipalities with fewer than 3,500 inhabitants and intermunicipalities with fewer than 15,000 inhabitants not affiliated to a mutualization structure (association of elected officials, public digital services operator…). It is currently in pilot. Its nationwide launch is planned for January 1, 2026. It currently combines a digital identity (ProConnect), an institutional domain name (Collectivité.fr), messaging (with calendar), file storage and an administration interface.