Digital Government Outlook 2026: France
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This country note presents an overview of the digital government landscape in France drawing on the results of the 2025 OECD Digital Government Index (DGI) and the 2025 OECD OURdata Index. The note outlines key policy developments in the country observed during the assessment period. It aims to inform policy dialogue and support France in advancing a whole-of-government approach to digital transformation in the public sector.
In the 2025 edition of the OECD Digital Government Index, France attained a score of 0.80, above the OECD average of 0.70. This represents a 0.13 increase since 2023 (Figure 1).
France recorded higher scores in Data-driven Public Sector (0.92), Open by Default (0.87), Proactiveness (0.80), Digital by Design (0.79) and Government as a Platform (0.77), compared with OECD averages of 0.74, 0.59, 0.67, 0.75 and 71, respectively. These results show that France has advanced in leveraging data as a strategic asset, promoting openness and transparency, and anticipating user needs through proactive service design.
France scored below the OECD average (0.71) in the User-driven dimension (0.67). This means that France still has room for improvement in placing user needs at the centre of service design, including through broader adoption of user research and inclusive design practices.
In the 2025 edition of the OECD OURdata Index, France attained a score of 0.96, above the OECD average of 0.53 (Figure 2). This represents a 0.16 increase since 2023.
France recorded high scores across all three pillars: 0.90 in Data availability, 0.98 in Data accessibility and 1.00 in Government support for data re-use, compared with OECD averages of 0.53, 0.67 and 0.40, respectively. This reflects France’s efforts to ensure wide availability of government datasets, maintain high accessibility standards, and actively promote data re-use through dedicated support mechanisms and ecosystem engagement.
France’s consistent performance across the three pillars places it among the stronger OECD performers in open government data. Data availability remains the lowest-scoring pillar (0.90), leaving scope to further improve stakeholder engagement for data release.
France has established a comprehensive digital government governance structure. The Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) leads digital policy, guided by the 2023 DINUM Roadmap. Co-ordination across ministries is ensured through the Interministerial Digital Committee (CINUM), the Interministerial Strategic Committee on Digital Affairs (COSINUM), and for data, the Interministerial Committee of Ministerial Chief Data Officers (CIAD).
A comprehensive approach to building digital talent across the civil service has been a priority in France. The Digital Campus, operated by DINUM, provides a structured catalogue of formal training programmes, alongside over 100 on-demand online modules launched in 2024. These are complemented by a Mobility and Career Path Hub facilitating retraining into digital roles, interministerial communities of practice, and the annual Public Digital Campus Forum for cross-government experience-sharing.
Strong transparency policies and mechanisms for the use of AI in government are anchored in Articles L.311-3-1 and L.312-1-3 of the Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration. These provisions require public bodies to inform individuals when algorithmic processing underpins administrative decisions and, upon request, to disclose the rules and main characteristics of the processing. Public bodies must also publish, in open format, the rules defining their main algorithmic tools used for individual decisions, with available tools like DINUM's operational guidance and complemented by civil society monitoring efforts such as the Public Algorithm Observatory.
While France performs well in areas such as project monitoring, financing, and GovTech, evaluation and accountability remain comparatively less advanced components throughout the digital investment lifecycle. In particular, ex-post cost-benefit analysis and broader application of impact evaluation methodologies are not yet systematically in place. These capabilities are currently being rolled out across major state projects in France to ensure that digital investments deliver their intended public value.
Remaining areas for development include common tools for digital notifications and digital post, which were not reported during the assessment period. Shared infrastructure in these areas is under development across France's digital public infrastructure ecosystem, including AMI, the French’s mobile app that will provide personalised support for users in their administrative interactions.
The OECD Digital Government Outlook (DGO) provides a comprehensive assessment of digital government policies across OECD Members and accession candidate countries. It draws on the results of the 2025 OECD Digital Government Index (DGI) and the 2025 OECD Open, Useful and Re-usable Data (OURdata) Index to evaluate progress and identify persistent gaps in digital transformation across the public sector.
The DGI assesses the enabling foundations for digital transformation across six dimensions: Digital by Design, Data-driven Public Sector, Government as a Platform, Open by Default, User-Driven and Proactiveness. Rather than measuring the digitalisation of specific services, the DGI focuses on the strategies, policy levers, implementation practices and monitoring mechanisms that enable coherent, whole-of-government digital transformation.
The OURdata Index benchmarks the robustness of open government data policies across three pillars: data availability, data accessibility and government support for data re-use. It supports policymakers in monitoring the design and implementation of national open government data policies.
Both indices were developed with OECD Member countries through the OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials (E-Leaders) and approved by the OECD Public Governance Committee.
Figure 1: The 2025 DGI OECD average does not include Germany and the United States. 2025 data cover the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024. The 2023 OECD average does not include Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United States. 2023 data cover the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 October 2022. The composite score is the unweighted average of the six-dimension scores.
Figure 2: The 2025 and 2023 OURdata Index OECD average does not include Denmark, Hungary and the United States. 2025 data cover the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023 data cover the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. The composite score is the unweighted average of the three-pillar scores.
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The full book is available in English: OECD (2026), Digital Government Outlook 2026: From Foundations to Transformational Impact, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/0496b2bc-en.
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