David Saforcada
Science, digital and communications
30 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 30
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Pursue public strategic-research policy for technological independence and infrastructure modernisation.
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Host and administer command, identity, security and justice data under French control; provide independent systems, fallback procedures and digital-continuity exercises.
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Exceed 3% of GDP in R&D within five years without accounting reclassification; strengthen basic research, equipment, technology and industrialisation with stable core funding and technical staff.
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Create the interministerial APSA advanced-projects agency, operational within one year, with programme directors on three-to-five-year terms, autonomous budgets, targets and stop authority; launch six missions in AI/computing, electronics/photonics/quantum, nuclear/storage, robotics/bioproduction, space/cyber and marine science.
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Bring Ifremer, CNRS, IRD, Shom, CEA, universities, stations and businesses together in a France sur Mer mission covering biotechnology, medical molecules, sensors, communications, robotics, seabeds, materials, energy and water, with assets controlled in France.
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Improve early scientific-career pay and technical roles, enable mobility between laboratories, government and business without loss of rights, and attract expatriate researchers and foreign talent while retaining project leadership and sensitive assets in France.
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Create laboratory-to-prototype-to-pilot-to-factory platforms, encourage first public purchases and rapid safe trials, document failures and fund scaling of successes.
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Tie aid to research, patents, skills and production location; scrutinise sensitive foreign transfers; where the public bears most risk, secure returns, a sovereign licence or equity and fair value sharing.
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Develop AI suited to French language and public and strategic work; prohibit critical reliance on systems that cannot be audited, moved or maintained; retain identifiable human responsibility.
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Build national AI and scientific computing with simple reserved access for French businesses and labs; coordinate energy, cooling and networks; protect sensitive data from extraterritorial laws and favour software maintained in France, portability and reversibility.
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Concentrate electronics on power devices, sensors, photonics, secure embedded systems, efficient architectures, accelerators, materials and assembly; diversify other components and condition fab aid on R&D, supplier development, strategic access and verifiable French production.
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Map and protect communications, cables, satellites, data centres, encryption, identities and payments; support French cybersecurity, post-quantum cryptography, critical software and large-scale training, with procurement avoiding irreversible dependency.
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Provide lasting programmes for launchers, critical satellites, observation, ground systems and space surveillance; retain Kourou as a French asset and buy and test from new suppliers in exchange for lasting French jobs, sites and patents.
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Launch a marine programme covering oceanography, genomics, aquaculture, robotics, sensors, communications, mapping, materials, biomimicry, energy, desalination, pollution removal and risks; require exploration and environmental assessment before resource development.
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Locate research centres, testing stations and demonstrators across coasts and overseas basins according to strengths, anchoring jobs, processing, patents and data in France and where possible in the relevant territories.
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Keep farm data under farmers’ control and portable; reserve public support for auditable, interoperable AI and precision tools tested on representative farms.
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Require substantial French summaries of publicly funded publications; support open Francophone journals, two-way translation, career recognition for French-language work and prompt scientific terminology.
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Create corpora representing worldwide French while respecting rights and personal data, multi-accent AI models, French in software and assistants sold in France, open correction, translation and speech tools for schools, government and SMEs, and accelerated terminology.
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Fund joint qualifications, laboratories and doctoral networks through AUF disciplinary alliances spanning several countries with genuine sharing of equipment, data and intellectual property, avoiding routine concentration in one country.
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Create a Francophone AI consortium and pool linguistic resources, open standards and computing for local accents and uses; coordinate platform demands on discoverability, transparency, remuneration, national law, hosting and cybersecurity.
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Secure ports, cables, energy, water, satellites and Kourou through plans, drills and forward repair capacity; develop national cable laying, monitoring and repair and greater local space-sector benefits.
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Create France sur Mer campuses linking universities, Ifremer, Shom, CNRS, Inserm, Météo-France, CNES, the natural-history museum and businesses, sharing equipment, chairs and doctorates; guarantee local participation, data copies and commercial benefit sharing.
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Create a lean advanced-projects agency shared by health and strategic technologies, with rapid high-risk funding for biotherapies, antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostics, robotics, mental health, rare diseases and paediatric cancers; protect French intellectual property, production and access while accepting honest scientific failure.
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Host and process health data within a sovereign framework with purpose limitation, minimisation, traceability, oversight and individual rights; evaluate and monitor clinical AI under human responsibility, never autonomously determining care refusal or priority.
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Require proportionate cybersecurity, offline backups, authentication, updates and supplier portability; test manual procedures and create a rapid national cyber-response support force, including for small providers.
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Support sovereign French or Francophone educational resources and tools without essential single-supplier dependence; no advertising or commercial training on minors’ data without a legal basis and valid consent; run public teacher-involved trials and abandon ineffective or intrusive tools.
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Coordinate sports science around participants’ and national teams’ needs; consider a high-risk advanced-projects agency linked to French research, sharing publicly funded results subject to intellectual property and national advantage, with consent and medical independence in human experiments.
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Minimise and secure athletes’ biometric/medical data with portability and trusted hosting; refusal cannot cause exclusion absent demonstrated necessity, no AI-only selection/return/sanction, and support valuable repairable French equipment.
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Pool interoperable reusable public tools according to security, data control, reversibility and French sovereignty.
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Audit explainable AI with human appeal and no autonomous sanction or denial of rights; remove unnecessary procedures before automation and redirect saved time to reception/frontline work.
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