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The French Alliance of Digital Industries (AFNUM): The creation of a major professional organisation in the digital sector
May 2015 by Marc Jacob
The industrial actors in France from the fields of telecommunication networks, mobile devices, consumer
electronics, photography, and connected objects have joined forces to create a new professional
organisation, Alliance Française des industries du Numérique (AFNUM) - The French Alliance of Digital
Industries.
This new trade association brings together companies who contribute to the ‘bedrock of digital society’
(infrastructure, intelligent systems, digital consumer goods, etc), playing a significant role in the economic
growth and the societal challenges of France.
Until today, these companies were represented by GITEP TICS, SIMAVELEC and USPII-SIPEC-SNSII.
Furthermore , this alliance, the AFNUM, is part of the major French trade federation, the FIEEC, Fédération
des Industries Electriques, Electroniques et de Communication, who represents over 3,000 business
organisations.
For AFNUM’s president, Georges Karam, ‘This new organisation results from the wish to reinforce the
common expression of our professions, representing 60,000 employees, and with a turnover of more than
10 billion euros, in France. From now on, the public authorities will have a privileged interlocutor, speaking
with a single voice in the name of this broad business sector, alongside other key players in the French
economy.’
In turn, Gilles Schnepp, president of the FIEEC, declared, ‘We welcome the creation of this major trade
association of stakeholders, who are responsible and committed to helping France take up the challenge of
innovation and employment.’
The AFNUM (Alliance Française des industries du Numérique) is a French professional trade association that represents the
manufacturers from the fields of telecommunication networks, mobile devices, consumer electronics, photography, and connected
objects ( public and private fixed and mobile networks, telecommunication devices and components, consumer electronics
equipment, A/V devices, signal distribution equipment, photography equipment, image and data storage). Its members are :
AIRBUS D.S, ALCAD, ALCATEL LUCENT, APPLE, CAE, CAHORS, CANON, CISCO, CONTINENTAL, CRUMPLER, DAYMEN, ERARD,
ERICSSON, EVICOM, FAGOR, FRACARO, FUJI RECORDING, FUJIFILM, GIBSON INNOVATIONS, IMATION, KODAK, LEICA, LG, LOEWE,
LUMIÈRE, MANFROTTO, MAXELL, MICRON LEXAR, MOTOROLA, NIKKEN TECHNOLOGY, NIKON, NOKIA - MICROSOFT, NORMAND,
OLYMPUS, PACE, PANASONIC, PENTAX RICOH, PM2S, PNJ CAM, PRESCOM, SAMSUNG, SEQUANS, SIGMA, SONY, TAMRON, TCT
MOBILE-ALCATEL ONE TOUCH, TECHNICOLOR, TELEVES, TETENAL, TONNA, TOSHIBA, TP VISION, TRAX DISTRIBUTION, VERBATIM,
WESTERN DIGITAL, WISI, X-TREME VIDEO
