Who are we?
AFNUM (The French Alliance of Digital Industries) is a French professional trade association representing digital manufacturers active in various sectors : telecommunication networks’ equipment, consumer electronics, IT and printing, mobile devices, photography and connected objects.
AFNUM gathers 60 members across the digital sector, ranging from local SMEs to major global companies.
Together we form a community of leaders, pathfinders, experts and enthusiasts, determined to convey a strong voice for the digital industry, within the digital ecosystem and before public authorities and policy makers.
Our Key figures
Our Members
Our shared values
The key values we share with our members are respect, innovation and the sharing of a common vision for our profession.
Our manifesto
The French Alliance of Digital Technology Industries (AFNUM) is a unique collective of companies representative of the entire value chain of our sector. Our diversity reflects the diversity of our members, who form the foundations of the French digital technology industry, with its wealth of technologies, specialties and skills. These foundations are at the heart of the challenges of the future, because the future will demand more transparency, responsibility and security in all our sectors. We believe that the digital foundations form the bedrock of a future that is attractive for society, reduces the carbon footprint and durably creates value.
We believe that:
- digital technology vitalizes every sector and transforms all forms of use.
- digital technology must be useful, simple and safe.
- digital technology must fuel economic, social and environmental progress.
- innovation, which is at the heart of digital technology, improves our daily lives, favors inclusion and contributes to the protection of the environment.
- Our companies must engage and take action together in order to offer ambitious solutions to these challenges.
For all these reasons, we believe that it is essential for us to help to rise to the challenges of digital technology.
To represent our members in all the instances related to their profession.
To simplify the interface with public authorities.
To federate a dynamic ecosystem.
To form a powerful group, built on our ambitions and our skills.
To develop together the products, applications and usages of the future.
To support all the industries and companies who make progress, wield influence and innovate for the common good.
Together, we form a community of experts, leaders, enthusiasts and pathfinders, who are determined to express with one voice the vision of our companies to the digital ecosystem and the public authorities.
Our actions reflect our values:
We promote responsible digital innovation by becoming involved in cross-cutting and societal subjects through our specialized working groups.
We share information that creates value and reflects our digital expertise with our members and the public authorities, in order
to contribute together to the progress of digital technology in the right direction.
The alliance we form is both unique and collective, agile and pragmatic, engaged and influential.
What we do
Together with our members, we proactively propose ways to develop an industrial digital ecosystem, which stays innovative while being safer and more responsible.
Our members’ industries are at the heart of tomorrow’s stakes, with a high demand for more transparency, responsibility and security in every sector. We believe that a strong digital ecosystem makes up the basis for an attractive future for society.
The digital transition is also at the very centre of the green transition and will contribute significantly to reducing the global carbon footprint.
Dedicated to providing value to all our members, we aim to produce accurate information and thorough positions that best reflect the extent of our digital knowledge. We strive to create spaces in which our members can share and exchange their views, where everybody’s voice is heard, in compliance with competition rules.
Our concrete actions
- Monitoring and follow-up of legislative and regulatory texts
- Development of sectoral positions at the French and European level
- Lobbying with public authorities and regulators
- Identification of good practices and sectoral issues
- Fostering the ecosystem and organizing events
Our missions
We inform our members on the key subjects impacting their business to simplify their daily decision making:
- French and European laws and regulations on environmental and CSR obligations, artificial intelligence, data & cloud, electronic communications and private copying levies
- Standardization issues
- Import/export and custom procedures
- Legal and social matters
- Public sector and procurement
We represent our members before French public authorities and policymakers – Government, Parliamentarians, administrative authorities, standardization bodies, etc. – to defend their interests through proactive policy advocacy and participation to several interministerial working groups.
We promote our sector’s visibility by publishing white books and position papers, by organizing dedicated industry meetings, targeted exhibits and specialized press conferences. Within the Strategic Industry Committee for Digital Infrastructures, a public-private initiative gathering French and European key stakeholders (mobile operators, equipment manufacturers, competitivity poles, government officials of the Ministry of Economy and academics), AFNUM leads the 5G and 6G working group.
We federate our members’ ecosystem by facilitating the flow of information and by organizing members’ meetings, working groups and business breakfasts and dinners, always within the limits fixed by compliance and deontological rules.
Business Committees addressing sectoral activities
Working Groups addressing transversal issues
Meet the team
Our governance
Our Board members and Executive Committee
Our partners
AFNUM is a long-time member of FIEEC, the French Federation of Electronics, Electrical and Information Industries, of MEDEF, the French Entrepreneurs Movement and of Digitaleurope, the trade association representing digitally transforming industries in Europe.
Over time, AFNUM has also developed numerous partnerships with key French stakeholders: national control agencies, ministerial committees, start-up incubators, innovation agencies and think tanks.
If you would like to become a member of AFNUM, please send us an email at contact@afnum.fr
We look forward to meeting you!
