Monday, January 5, 2015

CES 2015: the government strongly with the French Tech – ZDNet France

The government intends to prove his involvement in the digital economy, a source of growth. Latest illustration of this policy, moving at CES in Las Vegas Axelle Lemaire, the very active Secretary of State for Digital and Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy. And it is not to make up the numbers

Asked by Les Echos, the manager explains. “The goal is twofold: first is to provide the official support of Government to French companies by mobilizing the French Tech national network. There are 66 start-up of the Eureka Park, startups more confirmed as Netatmo or Withings, and major groups such as La Poste, L’Oréal or Pernod Ricard, which sometimes make the trip for the first time. Their visit is the will of Emmanuel Macron and mine to create an open innovation ecosystem where large groups and start-up working together. The Year 2 of the French Tech is to develop these relations. “

It must be said that France is the second most represented country at this great mass behind the USA. Ubifrance have a pavilion that exposes 18 start-ups in the French Tech. A total of 66 startups present belong to the French Tech against 38 a year earlier.

Please note, five of these French companies have already won awards at CES Innovation Awards, presented in the preamble of the appointment you to Las Vegas. This is Giroptic and its 360cam, Citizen Science and its D Shirt (logged textiles) Withings connected to his watch and Activity Homeainsi that Lima (storage boxes and data sharing) and Voxtok (System HiFi broadcast).

It will also “strengthen the attractiveness of France and abroad. We have to
 coming from foreign investors. I feel a real interest. There
 France was the sleeping beauty, that which summed up the case
 Yahoo! -Dailymotion Or allegedly punitive taxation. Support
 government assets is now visible. I want to tell
 investors do not rely on a certain newspapers
 Anglo-Saxon. “Come and see by yourself”! “

Axelle Lemaire also intends to benefit from travel to the United States to address some sensitive issues.” I’ll see Daniel Sepulveda, Ambassador in charge of ICT with Obama. I hope the United States will confirm their official withdrawal from the governance of ICANN. I also discuss net neutrality. I also go with Edith Ramirez, president of the Federal Trade Commission. In particular, we will discuss the renegotiation of the Safe Harbor (on the protection of personal data) and want to know their approach to the protection of personal data collected by the connected objects http “

 to see our interview Video Axelle Lemaire

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