La Contre-Voie (formerly 42l) was founded in January 2019. Recognized as an organization of general interest and with Jeunesse Éducation Populaire accreditation, the association is based in Angoulême and operates throughout France, depending on the availability of its members.
Questions about the association? Maybe you’ll find your answers here…
La Contre-Voie focuses on two main missions:
Defending “digital ethics” is also about political and social values. To help you recognize these issues, here is a non-exhaustive list of our commitments.
Through our conferences and workshops, we bring digital issues to the attention of an average of twenty people per activity, with a dozen of activities organized per year. Check out our activity register (fr) to discover our latest interventions.
These activities are sometimes broadcasted on the Internet and available on our PeerTube channel, which allows us to reach a larger audience and to perpetuate our work. These videos accumulate a few thousand views.
The frames of our activities are available in our documentation and can therefore be reused by other collectives.
Measuring the use of our services is a rather delicate exercise since we have chosen not to track our users. However, we generate basic statistics (weekly and monthly) using connection logs that we are legally obliged to keep for two weeks.
Towards the end of 2024, La Contre-Voie gathers more than 200 members. Most of them regularly uses our member services, including our email service which hosts more than 50 domain names for more than 3,000 received and sent emails every week.
Check out our full statistics on this page.
Find here our meeting transcripts as well as our moral and financial reports.
| Year | Assembly Transcripts | Meeting Transcripts | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | — | — | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2020 | January (slides) | January | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2021 | January (slides) | January, September, December | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2022 | January (slides) | January, April, May, June, December | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2023 | January | April (1), April (2), September, October | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2024 | January | April, June, Camp (August) | Moral report, Financial report |
| 2024-2025 | September (slides) |
From software development to artistic creation to popular education to defending our digital freedoms, the organizations that work to protect the cultural commons extend into many fields.
Among these structures, we have friends, acquaintances, people with whom we have ideas in common. They all represent a gateway to the libre/open-source world.
Here are a few resources to help you identify and meet structures that have a similar vision to ours.