The French state, through the intermediary of the DINUM, Digital Direction (numerique.gouv.fr/offre-accomp…), has just deployed LaSuite (lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/), a collaborative workspace that marks a historic turning point in the reclamation of our digital autonomy. This initiative led by the DINUM (Interministerial Digital Direction) finally offers French civil service agents a credible and sovereign alternative to GAFAM solutions.

LaSuite is part of an exemplary Franco-German collaboration 🇩🇪 (numerique.gouv.fr/offre-accomp…), with active partnerships including the Netherlands 🇳🇱. This international dimension ensures the interoperability of solutions and lays the foundations for a truly sovereign European digital ecosystem. By relying on an open and open-source protocol and recognized standards, LaSuite enables administrations to communicate without technological disruption, while maintaining complete control of their data.
Open source at the heart of the system 🔓
Unlike proprietary suites that lock in their users, LaSuite is based entirely on open source technologies. This transparent approach provides complete code auditability, eliminates vendor lock-in risks, and fosters collaborative innovation. France thus becomes the first country to invest massively in a free software suite for its state users, demonstrating its commitment to free and open digital solutions.
A complete and high-performance ecosystem of tools, enriched by AI 🛠️🤖
LaSuite offers a comprehensive range of professional applications covering all collaborative needs, natively integrating artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance the productivity of civil service agents:
- Tchap: secure instant messaging based on the Matrix protocol, already adopted by 600,000 civil servants for real-time communication, enriched with AI features for transcription and conversation analysis
- Visio: sovereign videoconferencing solution with automatic AI-powered transcription, meeting recording, and exceptional audio quality
- Docs: real-time collaborative text editor prioritizing content over formatting, with integrated AI features (summarization, rephrasing, writing assistance)
- Files: document storage and sharing platform with real-time co-editing and AI-powered content recognition, already used by fifteen ministries
- Grist: intelligent collaborative spreadsheet for structuring databases and workflows, with AI capabilities for data analysis and automation
- FranceTransfert: large file upload and download service designed for administrative needs
- Messaging: secure access to professional messaging integrated into the ecosystem, with AI assistance for sorting and prioritization
- Resana: interministerial collaborative platform offering a complete space for teamwork and project-based collaboration, enriched with AI capabilities for task management and collaboration
The entire suite benefits from single sign-on via ProConnect, simplifying access to all tools. These tool integrations with AI are designed to respect data sovereignty and operate exclusively on French servers.
Security and sovereignty: French guarantees 🔐
The security of LaSuite is ensured by French infrastructure with SecNumCloud certification from ANSSI, the highest level of trusted cloud qualification. Civil service data remains in France, under French jurisdiction, offering unparalleled guarantees against extraterritorial American laws.
A break with GAFAM dependence 💪
By freeing the administration from the grip of digital giants, LaSuite restores state control over its strategic tools. This initiative represents an investment in our collective future and a replicable model for other European public services.
A point for reflection on opening LaSuite to private actors? 🤔
The question of LaSuite access for the private sector naturally arises. Currently designed for the French civil service, could this infrastructure serve as the basis for a sovereign commercial offering? Rates charged by GAFAM for comparable solutions often exceed 200 euros per user per year. LaSuite, built on open source and public infrastructure, could offer an economically attractive alternative for French SMEs and mid-market companies seeking to reduce their digital dependence with reliable and proven tools. It remains to be seen whether derivative offerings, maintaining quality and security, could emerge from LaSuite soon.
Towards an innovative funding opportunity 💰
Beyond the sovereignty issue, LaSuite could become a revenue source for the state. A usage-based fee system for private actors, structured through a public-private partnership or mixed-economy company, would make it possible to monetize this strategic asset while guaranteeing its independence. This innovative approach would create a virtuous financial loop: the state would fund continuous platform improvement thanks to generated revenues, thus strengthening its competitiveness against proprietary solutions. In the current budgetary context, this avenue could significantly contribute to the financial resilience of our administrations.
For more information, visit the official LinkedIn project profile or its presentation video
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #LaSuite #TrustedCloud #EuropeDigital #SecNumCloud
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in reply to VicksVaporBBQrub • • •Isn't that the thing that digests milk, but not milk? You can buy little lactase pills at the pharmacy.
VicksVaporBBQrub
in reply to T156 • • •Opps. You are correct.
Lactase, also called milk sugar is an enzyme that helps breakdown the protein lactose. (Wiki)
I guess I was trying to use the verb form "lactate" for a science-y term for milk.
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in reply to xep • • •Cool. I didn't know that. I looked it up.
I'm in deep with my error. I should make a edit note in my original comment, just in case anyone has come this far. Thanks.
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in reply to rImITywR • • •I do t know if 00’s potato quality
Or AI slop
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in reply to fossilesque • • •Pay attention to how often you see "cellulose" as a listed ingredient. That's also usually processed wood pulp.
That cheap powdery parmesan often found in pizza places? Also sawdust.
It gets extra funny when you see cellulose listed on something with artificial cinnamon flavoring.
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in reply to SillyDude • • •This is so inherently incorrect it's incredible.
I've literally soaked multiple cinnamon sticks for fancy ass coffee. I've ground multiple sticks for meals.
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in reply to PhoenixDog • • •TowardsTheFuture
in reply to SillyDude • • •This is cassia bark (what most sell as cinnamon) but not Ceylon (has 250x less) so if you have “true” cinnamon then you’re fine
Edit: Coumarin, had to google cuz hell if I remember that shit. Bad for liver.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin
Under toxicity, 2nd paragraph
Coumarin - Wikipedia
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in reply to fossilesque • • •I just googled it and discovered that cinnamon is flammable, lol
Makes sense I guess
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in reply to benny • • •Yeah, cause those cinnamon flavored sweets are disgusting!
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in reply to w3dd1e • • •It's actually potato starch.
Sawdust isn't just cellulose. Wood is a matrix of cellulose fibers bound together by a tougher compound called lignin. While lignin isn't particularly toxic, you wouldn't want to eat it.
Fun fact, a lot of the process of making paper is for removing the lignin, only the cellulose is useful for making paper. And grasses like bamboo have a higher ratio of cellulose to lignin, so it's better for making paper
RamenJunkie
in reply to mnemonicmonkeys • • •Its not always potato starch though.
I mostly know this because my daughter is allergic to potatos so we have to only get certain brands of cheese.
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in reply to mnemonicmonkeys • • •w3dd1e
in reply to mnemonicmonkeys • • •Potato sawdust. Haha. I knew it wasn’t sawdust like trees but it was a dusty material made from plant but I didn’t know what kind.
Thanks! That’s pretty cool
MajorMajormajormajor
in reply to fossilesque • • •What did the Jamaican priest say to the thief stealing from the church?
(In Jamaican accent) "You're a cinna mon"
Hue hue hue
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in reply to potoooooooo 🥔 • • •Consume too much? Dead.
Inhale too much? Dead.
Go too deep into it? Dead.
We really should be regulating the stuff.
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in reply to fossilesque • • •Oh yeah? Well technically some really expensive coffee brands that people pay a lot for have coffee beans that went through the digestive systems of lemur-lookalike creatures, so you're paying tons to drink poo water.
Also bananas and tomatoes are berries.
Draconic NEO
in reply to fossilesque • • •It's not really that weird, root beer used to be made using sassafras bark and yeah that's toxic in large amounts too.
Also fun fact, you can eat the inner bark of most pine trees, particularly white pines. It doesn't taste great but it could easily be a source of food in an emergency.
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