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Arnaud Jardin fears that "not everyone can use it". Emmaus Connect's communications manager is worried about Europe 1 the scope of the new application "moncompteformation", a public service launched Thursday by the government to find more easily its training on the Internet, while thirteen to fifteen million French people are having trouble with digital. He asks that "the means put in the development of these tools are the same as those injected into the help for digital inclusion", "the fight" of Emmaus Connect.
Lack of financial resources
"30% of people excluded from digital are not out of disinterest or lack of competence," says Arnaud Jardin to try to explain the digital exclusion. "They are primarily because of lack of financial resources because they can not access materials, such as smartphones or computers." Essential tools to use the new application that offers 100,000 training sessions. The communication manager of Emmaus Connect calls on "the private world and the state to create a great alliance" against digital exclusion. Without this involvement to make the material accessible, there is no digital inclusion possible, "he said.
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On a daily basis, Emmaus Connect is already benefiting from the support of the SFR telephony operation, the association's "strategic partner" for pre-paid telephony and Internet cards, which are then distributed at solidarity prices to the beneficiaries. But the association "sorely lacks phone". "We are looking for 3,000 smartphones", launches on Europe 1 Arnaud Jardin. He calls on businesses that have fleets of new phones or opportunities that are still in working order.