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France Mandates Visio for Government, Replacing Zoom, Teams and Webex

A prime ministerial circular due within days will make Visio the default tool across ministries.

Overview

  • The state-built platform, developed by DINUM, will become the standard videoconferencing service for public servants as France phases out US tools across government.
  • DINUM says the circular will also prohibit alternative platforms, with potential network-level blocking of other videoconferencing traffic on the State IT network (RIE) in the coming months.
  • Visio has been piloted by roughly 40,000 users across ministries and public operators and is now scaling to hundreds of thousands, with routine use targeted by 2027 and non-renewal of external licenses thereafter.
  • Built on the open-source LiveKit stack and hosted on SecNumCloud-certified French infrastructure from Outscale, Visio is designed to keep data and processing under French and EU jurisdiction.
  • Paris cites digital sovereignty and security as the drivers, highlighting projected savings of about €1 million per year for every 100,000 users and features such as transcription and live captions without offloading audio to foreign clouds.