Home
Symposia
Media Centre
Newsletter
Foundation
Publications
Contact
Site Map
Here ::  Symposia ::  2008 ::  Speakers & Chairs ::  Pierre Lévy 

Pierre Lévy

Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa, Canada

Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who has devoted his professional life to the understanding of the cultural and cognitive impacts of digital technologies and to the promotion of their best social uses. He is a world-leading thinker on “cyberculture”. His work has been focused around the concept of collective intelligence and knowledge-based societies, and more recently, on the development of an Information Economy Meta Language (IEML) based on semiotic concepts. Pierre Lévy has published several books among them Qu’est-ce que le virtuel ? (Becoming Virtual) or Cyberculture.