Conference | Online
Digital geopolitics
This is the first in a series of lectures on key works in the Droit, cyberjustice et cybersécurité area. In the form of a reading circle, Ophélie Coelho will present her book Géopolitique du numérique - L'impérialisme à pas de géants (Les Éditions de l'Atelier, 2023). A respondent from another discipline, Ledy Rivas Zannou, will react to the book.
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Ophélie Coelho is an independent researcher in digital geopolitics, and a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Observatoire de l'éthique publique and the Institut Rousseau. Her research work is the result of an interdisciplinary background: on the one hand, field experience in the digital industry, and on the other, an academic career in the History of Science and International Relations. She is the author of Géopolitique du numérique - L'impérialisme à pas de géants (Les Éditions de l'Atelier, 2023), in which she analyzes the historical mutations that led to the emergence of digital mutlinationals and describes the levers of power of these new geopolitical players. A journey both historical and geographical, this book explores a theater of operations where, far from the utopia of a borderless Internet, technological imperialism is advancing by leaps and bounds.
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Ledy Rivas Zannou holds a doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the Université de Montréal. As of May 1, 2024, he will join the faculty of the Department of Law at the Université du Québec en Outaouais as a regular professor. Always on the lookout for new issues arising from debates on the regulation of artificial intelligence, he works alongside other researchers to fuel reflection on both ethical and legal questions. Since January 2020, he has been scientific coordinator of the L.R. Wilson Chair in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, as well as lecturer in technology law (bachelor's and master's degrees) at Université de Montréal's Faculty of Law. He has produced research (collective works, book chapters, articles and other publications, notably on issues related to the digitization of justice, cyber-consumer contracts and the protection of personal information) and lectures. He is a member of the scientific and executive boards of the CRDP public law research center, and associate editor of the journals Lex Electronica and Les Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle.
