Overview

• The French National Assembly unanimously passed a resolution to make the 2019 'cahiers de doléances' (grievance notebooks) from the Grand Debate publicly accessible.
• These notebooks, created during the 'Gilets Jaunes' protests, contain over two million citizen contributions addressing social and economic concerns.
• The government plans to digitize and anonymize the notebooks to protect personal information, with AI tools being tested to aid this process.
• The resolution also aims to encourage research on the notebooks and make their content available on an open online platform.
• This move fulfills a long-delayed promise from President Macron and is seen as a step to address public discontent and democratic transparency.