The health crisis has made us all realize that we have truly entered the digital age. A collective awareness of this importance invites us all to think, innovate and act differently.

Beyond human activities – work, education, health, environment, governance, finance – and on points as critical as freedom, mobility and more broadly our civilization, digital technology has become a formidable lever to respond to a great number of challenges.

But it has also become a tool of control and power with misused use of our data, thus severely restricting our individual freedoms and our civic responsibilities. Furthermore, recent and indisputable publications reveal the multiple disruptions caused by the destabilizing exploitation of social networks and we endorse their conclusions.

By evoking for example GAFAM, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital currencies, blockchains, the cloud, the metaverse, online games, augmented virtual reality, etc.,The current debate focuses on tools and solutions and forgets to address the profound change underway that we can describe as “civilizational,” impacting all human activities and societal issues.

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It is essential that real debate takes its place.

Digital technology must be treated in all its civilizational dimensions.

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Digital technology has gradually penetrated our daily lives, becoming an integral part of our society and it is universal. At this stage and before a generalization of digital technology capable of following all the actions of our daily lives, is it not time to question the fundamentals of our society: where are we and where do we want to go? ;?

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How, in fact, can we rethink our social organization and our relationship to our real environment in the digital age? If data is at the heart of this environmental and societal transition, it is undoubtedly time to think about its governance, on which the very governance of our society will depend. We, “citizens of the world”, enlightened and non-enslaved citizens, can still opt for a more responsible and more inclusive society!

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This is why we came together in a collective that we called: ″Citizen-Nation″. We are indeed convinced that this “civilizational” mutation can only result from collective and inclusive citizen mobilization, particularly of the new generation, aimed at building the foundations of this new society that we wish to begin to build for youth and our children.

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These points of attention are so fundamental that we ask that they appear fully in the priorities of the various candidates for the Presidency of the Republic and in particular in those for which the objective will be that France and the French become respectively a great nation and enlightened citizens of  21st century.

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These are the founding points of a new social and economic organization which must be enriched and detailed over time and on which the signatories of the “Citizen Nation” collective undertake to work sustainably: