Launch of our 2024-2026 roadmap
Three years to contribute to digital empowerment
After (almost) five years of existence, we are writing our first roadmap to formalize the direction we wish to take over the next three years.
This structuring step will enable us to clarify our approach to our public, but also to enable our funders to know more precisely our intentions and how their financial support will be used.
For these three years, from 2024 to 2026, we will focus on four projects:
- Launch a support program to guide associations and collectives towards better use of digital tools ;
- Develop our own digital autonomy by hosting our own (small) servers to regain control over our infrastructure;
- Train our audiences in digital ethics by carrying out local educational interventions and developing new educational content;
- Strengthen our associative links by actively contributing to the CHATONS collective and forging links with other associative structures.
Click here to view the full roadmap.
We hope you’ll be inspired by our little contribution to digital freedoms.
🔗With what means?
For the first time since the creation of La Contre-Voie, we’re going to try to remunerate the people who work for the association.
To reach this milestone, we need to multiply our budget: as a reminder, in 2022, our annual budget was 2,300 euros. In 2023, we have doubled it to 4,800 euros. A part-time minimum wage currently costs around 16,000 euros, and 21,000 euros full-time… There’s still a long way to go, and we’re going to take things one step at a time.
This evolution means that we need to build up reserve funds so as not to put La Contre-Voie in a dangerous financial situation in the event of a bad accounting year.
To get off to a risk-free start, we won’t be setting an annual budget higher than our own funds: which means that if we want to set ourselves an annual budget of 10,000 euros, we’ll first have to make sure we have the same amount in reserve.
For the first year of this roadmap, we will therefore need 15,000 euros: our annual budget will be 10,000 euros, and we hope to build up 5,000 euros in reserve funds.
Details of these expenses can be found in the relevant section of our roadmap.
🔗Who gives us these resources?
We’re looking at a number of different sources of funding, but it’s clear that we hope to obtain the majority of our financing from you, through your donations.
We are therefore officially launching our donation campaign: until the end of 2023, you can drop your star on our participative constellation to financially support our projects.
Other sources of funding for our projects include:
- Subsidies: we haven’t applied for any so far, but we plan to look into regional subsidies in the coming years to help increase our budget;
- Awareness-raising events: we’ll continue to price our events, always depending on the means of the structures that invite us;
- Digital support for structures: if we manage to develop our support program, we hope that the associations and other structures that will benefit will contribute financially according to their means;
- Membership fees and hosting services: if we succeed in self-hosting our infrastructure, then increasing its capacity and resilience, we could consider hosting new services;
- The sale of T-shirts, although the funds generated by this activity do not allow us to pay a salaried position.
We’re counting on your support to make these projects a reality!
Discover our complete roadmap here.