Data / Knowledge
The Ecolab of the General Commission for Sustainable Development is the innovation laboratory tasked with the policy of ministerial administration of data and artificial intelligence for territories, and by extension the uses of data and AI for the benefit of public policies in ecological transition and territorial cohesion.
The Frameworks of ECOLAB’s Intervention
- AMDAC : Ministerial Administration of Data, Algorithms and Source Codes
- CNIG : National Council for Geolocated Information
- LIRIAe : Intelligent Reading and Research for Environmental Authorities
- Information Platforms for Territories : Animation of the network of geographic, territorial and environmental data platforms
- Data Services : Support offer in expertise around data (data analytics, indicators, AI, skills…)
- Territorial Indicators : Providing intercommunalities with a common base of indicators to facilitate the management of their transition in light of national objectives
- GD4H : Green Data For Health, enhancing environmental data for research in environmental health
- Knowledge Mission : Designing a national and territorial knowledge framework for ecological transition
- Ecospheres : Facilitating the research, discovery, and use of environmental data
- Skill Development on Data and Artificial Intelligence : Replay of webinars, self-assessment tool PIX Data in the public sphere, supporting materials, …
Main Achievements and Ongoing Projects
- Participation in the work of ecological territorial planning driven by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Energy, Climate and Risk Prevention and the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning (SGPE).
On the digital and data aspect of planning, medium-term projects include:- Deployment of territorial indicators for ecological and energy transition, for better local and national monitoring of planning
- Creation of a design method and a common model of data standards (project “ standard of standards ”)
- Strengthening synergy and interoperability between territorial platforms for environmental data, which are generally under dual oversight of Regions-State.
- Creation of a centralized access portal to ecological transition data (project “Ecosphères” or ecologie.data.gouv.fr)
- Improvement of the discoverability, access, and use of environmental data for the benefit of researchers in health-environment (project “Green Data for Health” – GD4H)
- Promotion of responsible uses of artificial intelligence in public policies and private initiatives for ecological transition, for instance through the call for projects on Frugal AI Demonstrators in territories (DIAT), endowed with a fund of €40 million as part of the actions of France 2030.
- Skill development, animation, and highlighting of the “Knowledge” services of the decentralized services of the ministerial cluster so they can serve as support points for territorial (prefect) and national projects concerning the use of data for ecological and energy transition (project “ Knowledge Mission ”).
- Implementation of digital tools intended to facilitate the work of services or the ecosystem of the ministerial cluster :
- LIRIAe (Intelligent Reading and Research for Environmental Authorities), based on natural language processing algorithms designed to facilitate the use of documentation by the Environmental Authority services.
- Analysis of vulnerability diagnostics of the French territory regarding climate change, under the auspices of the national observatory on the effects of climate change (ONERC).
- Creation of a self-diagnostic tool for skills on data in the public sphere, with the public interest group PIX
Management of the National Council for Geolocated Information
The Ecolab manages the National Council for Geolocated Information (CNIG), a meeting place for key public and private stakeholders, national and territorial, involved in the issues of standardization, innovation, production, dissemination, and sharing of geolocated data. The CNIG advises the government and parliament, organizes consultation and coordination among producers and users of geolocated data, notably the regions, and produces standards, guides, and recommendations.
The Ecolab hosts the general secretariat of the CNIG. The General Commissioner for Sustainable Development is the vice-president of the CNIG.