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Issy-les-Moulineaux Leads France in Broadband Technology


Winning the Digital Revolution
Winning the Digital Revolution

June 30, 2009 By

With thousands of jobs lost almost every day and everywhere in the current global economic turmoil, wouldn't it be utopia if a city could offer all the jobs its inhabitants wanted and still had plenty more to be filled? That would be even more amazing if the city was a densely populated municipality located in a country as much affected by the global turmoil as any other developed nation.

With almost 70,000 jobs on offer for a population of a little more than 60,000 inhabitants, that's exactly the current economic situation in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Issy), a suburb about 4 miles from Paris. Using information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool to successfully move its economy away from an old manufacturing base to a tech-savvy intelligent community, Issy has lured some of the most recognized technology companies. It's turning into the most technologically advanced city in France.

Since the mid-1990s, when the Internet was hardly prevalent across Europe, Issy successfully developed and implemented a proactive strategy of innovation to build a local information society that's open to all.

"[The strategy] was to follow the developments of new technologies benefiting the population across the country, without any exception," said Eric Legale, managing director of Issy Media, a public-private company in charge of communication and IT within Issy-les-Moulineaux.

The effort included launching a campaign to lure more communication and technology companies to the area and making high tech and innovation the backbone of Issy's economy, thereby accelerating the city's transformation.


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