Digital space is open to businesses

The General Assembly of the Espace Digital du Sud-Charente (ENSC) marked a turning point in July. The digital training and mediation association came out in favour of amending…

The General Assembly of the Espace Digital du Sud-Charente (ENSC) marked a turning point in July. The digital training and mediation association announced its support for a change in its statutes and governance. More than just a formality, it concerns its future and its social model. It has a fourth faculty dedicated to businesses. “We want to develop our economic side,” explains Nicolas Vauzelle, president of the National Environmental Security Council.

A prerequisite for the association's role in the future economic and digital hub supported by Lavalette-Tude-Dronne. Two years ago, the CDC Foundation took over the former “Plaisir d'Automne” restaurant in Montmorillon to create this center. Crowded in its city headquarters, Avenue de Laquitaine, which has housed its offices since 2019, its third location and the FabLab “La Parenthesis”, ENSC took up residence in the building a year ago to open its training center. , among other things, for digital advisor services in France.

Business incubators

The association, which will be the tenant but also the manager of the centre, and the CdC have led a joint discussion to outline an ambitious programme. In addition to training spaces and the third ENSC centre, the centre will notably include shared spaces, including a fully furnished and equipped studio. A kind of business incubator, even a start-up incubator, but also a site open to companies already established on the street, specialising in the digital and audiovisual fields or not.

“That’s why we want to involve local companies in the management of the digital space and in defining the strategic challenges of developing this new equipment so that it meets the needs of local companies,” says Bertrand Mercadet, director of the National Digital Security Council. “Thus, we are innovating a little more in our social model by promoting the emergence of a collective, economic and unified project.” The rehabilitation work should start this fall for an opening in 2026.