The three pillars of our program
The challenge
A project backed by an administration, that requires digital skills and is sized to be completed in 10 months by 2 or 3 public interest entrepreneurs (EIG).
The mentor
The challenge's backer within the administration who guides the EIGs through their sector expertise and facilitates their joining the administration.
The EIG
Or public interest entrepreneur, is a person with advanced digital skills (data science, development or design) who takes up the challenge.
And how does it work in practice?
What motivates us
Creating a public interest digital community that brings together administrations and individuals.
Promoting open innovation as a method and ideal in administrations.
Enhancing public interest data to provide ever more efficient services.
Encouraging the development of projects published under open source licenses in administrations.
The program creates a community of people with digital skills serving public interest
EIGs and mentors talk about their experience
Sans hésiter je recommanderais à d’autres administrations de recourir au dispositif EIG. Cela permet de recruter des bonnes personnes avec le bon profil correspondant au projet et d’agir vite avec des technologies innovantes.
Le programme Entrepreneurs d’Intérêt Général représente pour nous la chance de bénéficier d’un accélérateur en phase avec les principes d’agilité et de démarche apprenante qui guident les acteurs impliqués dans le Carrefour des innovations sociales.
En tant qu’ancien co-directeur général du Liberté Living Lab, ayant pu constater que l’impact était extrêmement fort et provoquait une transformation réelle dans plusieurs de ces administrations, je pense que le succès est évident.
3 years and over 50 challenges taken up!
Latest publications
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EIG 3 promotion: conclusions drawn
17 January 2020 by Soizic Pénicaud, EIG team
The EIG 3 promotion ended on 15 November 2019. What conclusions can be drawn overall from the promotion's 15 challenges and 32 EIGs? How can the programme be improved in 2020?
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Opening up the program's resources: our online documentation
12 September 2019 by Antoine Augusti, EIG Link
As the program coordination team, our main duties are to set up cohorts, coach entrepreneurs throughout the year and promote and develop the EIG program. In this context, a knowledge base including our events, processes, explanations and good practices has to be set up. In this article, we describe the aims of our documentation, the construction process followed and how we update it.
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Mobilising digital skills in administrations: what initiatives abroad?
10 July 2019 by Guénolé Carré, équipe EIG
In France, as well as in other countries, administrations face the same problem: how to recruit digital skills? They have launched different initiatives to adress the problem. In this article, we compare these initiatives to our program in order to better understand what is being done and where our similarities lie.
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Bulletins: our open source weekly review tool
03 July 2019 by Antoine Augusti, EIG Link
In order to share progress in projects lead by thirty people across fifteen different administrations, the Public Interest Entrerpeneurs program has developed its own weekly review tool: Bulletins. Discover how it came to be and what it does.
The program regularly publishes articles on its method and achievements
