US EditionFrance to Phase Out US Video Conferencing Tools, Launch Own Visio App by 2027
France will replace US video conferencing with Visio, tested by 40,000 public employees, enhancing security and saving millions in contract costs, aiming for full deployment by 2027.
- On Monday, France announced it will phase out Microsoft Teams and Zoom across its public administration by 2027, replacing them with Visio, the French-made platform, David Amiel said.
- To strengthen digital sovereignty, the French government strategy plans to deploy Visio across public administration within two years and end dependence on foreign software, David Amiel said.
- DINUM developed Visio, which has been tested for a year by around 40,000 public‑sector users and features AI transcripts and speaker diarization using Pyannote on Outscale's sovereign cloud.
- Officials said the switch would save as much as €1 million per year per 100,000 users, affect civil servants only, and make France the second country after Australia to enforce this shift.
- As Europe reassesses reliance on US tech, Emmanuel Macron's administration frames technology policy as national security and cultural sovereignty amid digital sovereignty and regulation efforts following US cloud outages last year.
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Visio emerges from the pilot phase and is to be used by 200,000 officials by 2027. The pursuit of sovereignty but also cost savings provide the motivation
The French government is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a home-grown alternative
The French government is saying au revoir to Microsoft Teams and Zoom as it embraces a home-grown alternative. By next year, civil servants across all departments will have switched to French videoconference platform Visio, as EuroNews reports.As with Teams and Zoom, Visio has an AI-powered transcription tool. Visio runs on a French company's cloud infrastructure as well. The platform has around 40,000 users and it's been in testing for the last…
France will replace the North American platforms Microsoft Teams and Zoom by its own videoconferencing platform developed internally. On behalf of Visio, it should be used in all government departments by 2027. Part of a...
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