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SUMMARY:One Million Teachers\, One "Forge": How the French Ministry of Edu
 cation is Building Digital Commons - Sarra Hedhli
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DESCRIPTION:Governments across Europe are looking for alternatives to thei
 r growing dependence on global technology platforms. Yet digital sovereign
 ty is not only about software—it is also about enabling communities to b
 uild\, maintain and govern shared digital resources.\n\nIn education\, thi
 s potential already exists. Nearly one million French teachers use\, creat
 e\, adapt\, document and share educational resources alongside developers
 \, researchers\, public institutions and companies. The challenge is no lo
 nger to generate innovation\, but to transform this collective capacity in
 to sustainable digital commons.\n\nThe French Ministry of Education is add
 ressing this challenge through a national "Forge" for Educational Digital 
 Commons. Rather than developing educational software itself\, the Ministry
  provides shared infrastructure\, documentation\, community facilitation a
 nd governance\, while supporting projects that follow a commons trajectory
 .\n\nThis session will present the Forge ecosystem\, its scale and first r
 esults: 10\,000+ hosted projects\, 500 curated educational resources\, and
  several commons reaching millions of monthly uses. Through projects such 
 as MathALÉA\, PrimTux\, Code en Bois and Marelle\, we will illustrate how
  existing initiatives evolve into sustainable educational digital commons.
 \n\nThe Forge is part of the French Ministry of Education's broader nation
 al strategy for digital education. The Ministry complements its role as a 
 provider of digital services by acting as an ecosystem steward: operating 
 shared infrastructure\, supporting the EduCommuns programme—which helps 
 promising educational digital commons become robust\, community-governed a
 nd sustainable—and co-designing a governance model that will make the Fo
 rge itself a "commons of commons".\n\nBeyond education\, this session expl
 ores how public administrations can strengthen digital sovereignty by cult
 ivating ecosystems rather than owning digital products\, and how this mode
 l could inspire collaboration across Europe.
LOCATION:Academia and EdTech
URL:https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/talk/UDN7FT
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