FRANCE		Networked World

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Country Overview

Network Access

Network Learning

Network Society

Network Economy

Network Policy

Offshore Opportunity

Analysis of Readiness

Network Economy

SICT Employment Opportunities
Business to Consumer Electronic Commerce
Business to Business (B2B) Electronic Commerce
E-Government

 

 

SICT Employment Opportunities

According to the scoreboard of 2002, France’s current innovation performance is well under average this indicates that France is losing its momentum. These include high-tech patent applications, population with tertiary education, employment in high-tech services, public and business R&D expenditures and ICT expenditures.

It is too early to decide whether the Innovation Act of 1999, designed to modernize and re-organize the French innovation system, will make significant contributions to solve this problem. Among all innovation indicators France seems to be weakest in life-long learning. With legislation dating back to 1971, training policy in France is not well suited for dealing with contemporary human resource phenomena such as ‘mobile’ workers. New initiatives are expected from stakeholders in both the economic and the social sector.

In France, electronic commerce with consumers only represents a small part of the retail trade (apart from Minitel). The reasons most often given are fear and lack of confidence on the part of actors, as to the risks of electronic commerce, whether real or imagined.
The GBDe believes that building consumer confidence is a key issue for the development of electronic commerce, and that both business and governments have a responsibility to foster it. According to the electronic research report of 1999 it is noted that looking from a national perspective at the expected level of total corporate sales attributable to the internet by 2002 France’s proportion of total sales attributable to the internet should have been 14.5 %. The proportion of sales in the next 3 years was predicted at 15.7%.