La Contre-Voie was founded in January 2019 under the name “42l” as a student association of 42 Paris.
In July 2022, the association leaves 42 Paris to extend its activities of raising awareness about ethics in the digital world in high schools, universities or other places linked to popular education, in order to propose a new look at the digital tools we use every day.
Questions about the association? Maybe you’ll find your answers here…
In June 2019, as a structure that hosts libre/open-source software, La Contre-Voie joins the CHATONS: the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. It is the beginning of a long adventure.
Like the CSA model, the collective gathers more than a hundred structures that offer alternative services to the tech giants, on a local scale, in order to help people who are not computer-literate to be less dependent on tools that sell their personal data.
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 40 people per activity, with about 20 activities organized per year.
These activities are 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 open format on our repositories 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.
For example, our Nitter service has exceeded 30,000 visits per day and 2TB of weekly traffic, with over 50 million requests per week. Our DoH service also processes over 5 million requests per 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 (CC), April (Bureau) | — |
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.