CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory imagines the future with Plan.Net France
14.02.2022
Released at the end of January, Climatopie is the fruit of a reflection initiated by the CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory on the subjects of the environmental transition, the multiplication of digital tools and the protection of personal data. Created by the Plan.Net France agency, the site explores our future through six short fictions.
"While data minimization and a certain frugality are principles of data protection, could data protection be part of environmental protection?"
To explore the answers to this question, LINC - the CNIL's Digital Innovation Laboratory - chose to enlist the services of the Plan.Net France agency. Together, the two entities carried out a Design Fiction project, which resulted in the Climatopie website (www.climatopie.fr).
Using these imaginary worlds as a starting point, Plan.Net spoke to a number of professionals from sectors as diverse as the automotive, advertising, travel, public institutions and food industries, to find out their vision of the future based on three pre-established scenarios:
- What if... tomorrow our lives were punctuated by emissions, pollution and data quotas?
- What if... tomorrow, environmental impact became public data, for individuals and companies alike?
- What if... tomorrow the digital world had to adapt to the collapse of resources?
Their reflections have given rise to the six Climatopie stories: six illustrated stories that explore the links between digital technology, the environment and the protection of data and freedoms. Six stories that project you into a more or less near future:
- Inspection visit: À découvrir sur Climatopie
- Payable in smoke: À découvrir sur Climatopie
- Job profile: À découvrir sur Climatopie
- Year 1.0c: À découvrir sur Climatopie
- A smartphone for everyone : À découvrir sur Climatopie
- Defragmented : À découvrir sur Climatopie
Last but not least: the Climatopie site is based on Pico, a free, open-source CMS that is unique in that it uses no database. It doesn't use any third-party platform and doesn't deposit any cookies on visitors' computers. To talk about environmental protection and personal data, it seemed appropriate to use the most frugal technology possible.
