We are in 2017. Tristan is hired as Project Manager for a large local authority. This is his very first job and he is determined to make a lasting impression. He is tasked with the implementation of a software package very recently purchased by his employer, which gathers all the personal data of the agents,…

Soon after the start of the COVID-19 crisis, strong digital infrastructure turned out to be a major asset. The Netherlands is one of those fortunate countries. Everyone has access to affordable and reliable broadband. Families, employees, businesses, and government switched to videoconferencing, working, learning and shopping from home without a glitch. In addition, we have…

(by Delphine Chevallier, Thalia NeoMedia, and Didier Spella, Mirat di Neride) The current crisis is plunging us into a unique state that is not the first and certainly not the last. Our generation has experienced many economic and financial crises. The Covid-19 pandemic is its first major health crisis, for which it seemed ill-prepared. So,…

Cyber-attacks are becoming a recurrent phenomenon and develop at a speed hard to match as the natural result of the growing importance of digital technologies in our lives. Many insist on tomorrow’s crisis being digital yet the realisation that for numerous actors (Ukraine, Estonia, TV5 Monde among others) yesterday’s crisis was already digital must raise…

Summary of roundtable discussion facilitated by Delphine Chevallier, DG, Thalia NeoMedia, during FIC2020 on Wednesday 19th January 2020.

The digital has become a vital and universal component of our society and transforms in a irreversible way the political, economical, social and cultural dimensions of organizations and individuals. First, it upsets the regalian domains so much as certain authors do not hesitate to compare the strategic consequences of the advent of the cyberspace with…