Publish at May 29 2017 Updated May 30 2023
Today, thanks to collaborative online tools, the citizens of a state or community are interconnected and can participate in building the world of tomorrow. Whether or not the citizen is geographically close to the entity with which he or she identifies is irrelevant. He is interconnected to the world through the diaspora of pixels.
After the decentralization of territorial competencies, the functional decentralization of establishments, we are witnessing the decentralization of citizen ideas.
Known forms of Western Francophone decentralization
"The decentralization implemented by Western states with regard to local authorities has many similarities when it comes to solving problems of territorial organization, and comparative law is a useful aid in identifying common difficulties encountered by federal or unitary states.
A study of the Belgian, Canadian and French situations reveals that the implementation of decentralization processes quite often transcends the classic distinctions between forms of state organization.
The analysis of constitutional statutes and that of legal, financial and human resources show numerous correlations without erasing national persistence... They were produced within the framework of a scientific cooperation bringing together the public law research centers of the universities of Louvain, Ottawa and Rennes."
Description of the proceedings of the colloquia held by the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Rennes on November 18 and 19, 2004: The implementation of decentralization - comparative study France, Belgium, Canada
The example of France:
"Through a long process of decentralization, France has gone from being a highly centralized unitary state to being a deconcentrated and decentralized state (law of February 6, 1992 on the territorial administration of the Republic, known as the "ATR law").
Decentralization is enshrined in Article 1 of the Constitution, which states that "the organization [of the French Republic] is decentralized...A distinction is made between territorial decentralization and functional decentralization. In territorial decentralization, the decentralized authorities are the territorial or local authorities (communes, départements, regions, authorities with special status and overseas collectivities)...
In functional or technical decentralization, decentralized entities are public establishments responsible for managing a public service (universities, public hospitals, national museums, regions between 1972 and 1982)".
Text from www.vie-publique.fr
To these two forms of decentralization, we must add a third, which is linked to the citizen.
The decentralization of citizen ideas up and running in France
The classic protocol for transmitting citizen ideas goes through ideological parties, which propose their ideas to the people and validate them through the electoral process, then are relayed to the highest levels of government.
Today, we see groups of citizens taking ownership of their destinies according to the concept of the information diaspora. This is a decentralization of decision-making that can be activated by any lambda citizen and takes place within communities of life, villages, towns, corporations or simply new movements, such as the new parties that appeared in France during the 2017 presidential election.
On the Mouvement en Marche website, for example, we find the following text:
"But whatever your history, whatever your political origins, we invite you to reinvent the codes with us."
Text taken from website. https://en-marche.fr/
The same dynamic can also be found from a more alternative angle in the Nuit Debout movement:
"all persons bound by the social contract which establishes their sovereignty as an exercise of their general will"
Text from the Nuit Debout Wiki (since deleted).
So, we're seeing the emergence of citizens' movements, based on the desire to regain their right to have their say in particular on decisions influencing their everyday lives. We can undoubtedly draw a parallel between current paradigm shifts.
Yesterday, knowledge was declined according to the hierarchical valorization of intellectual thought towards the smallest subordinate tasks. Today, data reverses this order of things; it's the infinitely small bits of information, the pixels that are tomorrow's gold, and the interpretation that is made of them is just an algorithmic variable designed to answer a question.
Is the citizen also becoming tomorrow's essential value? It's quite possible.
What impact on tomorrow's training courses 
Today, most educational programs are set up to lead national or regional masses of schoolchildren and students to degrees on an equal basis.
That is, there is a single program for hundreds, thousands or even more learning beings to be trained. These standardized programs are egalitarian for every student, but the failure rates make us think about new, fairer paths. Indeed, if you ask a panther and a deer to climb a tree, they are both living beings and intelligent, but, because of their differences, they have not developed the same skills. Valuing differences is a strategic key to the new education emerging.
How do we support these changes when we are straddling two ways of doing things; the previous world operating according to the pre-disruption hierarchical model and the emerging world that wants to value the learner as an individual? The temptation of people working according to the old model could naturally be formalized by the decision to group students into typological classes to enable everyone to be valued according to their differences. This could be a temptation that could ultimately accentuate social divisions. We could then see over-emerging communities of giftedness, skills, differences, as we can already see exist for higher education or disabilities such as deafness.
Our way of managing training will have an impact on the structure of our societies of tomorrow. A rich and united collective life can only be achieved through a training model that allows for the integration of differences at all structural levels of its organization.
The classroom of tomorrow will therefore have to be inclusive of everyone's differences and skills. Managing difference is not just about accompanying it. The challenge of tomorrow's education is to turn students into full-fledged citizens who will live and act together. To achieve this, we need everyone to find their place in the variety of the community from kindergarten to university.
Illustrations: Hospital by Corgaasbeek
Marines by Squeeze
Sources
Description of the proceedings of the colloquia held by the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Rennes on November 18 and 19, 2004: The implementation of decentralization: a comparative study of France, Belgium and Canada
Text session of June 21, 2000, the role of the regulatory state by the economic and social council in France
Citizenship, between decentralization and globalization - Contretemps, March 2012 by Anicet Le Pors
RFI Afrique - The French diaspora in Africa has chosen Emmanuel Macron
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