Henri Verdier
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Henri Verdier (born 1968 in Toulouse) is a French entrepreneur and digital specialist[1] who has been serving as the country's ambassador for digital affairs since 2018. Previousy he was the French State Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from 2015 to 2018 and, before, the Head of Etalab, the French Agency for Public Open data.[2]
Career
Career in the private sector
Verdier was CEO of MFG Labs,
Career in the public sector
From January 2013 to September 2015, Verdier headed Etalab, the Prime Minister's office in charge of opening public data. Under his direction, Etalab developed a new version of the French national open data portal "data.gouv.fr", which hosts many public datasets. This version, which allows citizens to enrich public data or share their own data, has been described by the TechPresident blog as a "world first".[4]
By order of Prime Minister Manuel Valls on 16 September 2014, Verdier was appointed as General Data Administrator,[5] akin to the function of the French State’s Chief Data Officer.
At the Council of Ministers of 23 September 2015, Verdier was appointed Chief Digital Officer of France,
As Director of Mission at Etalab, Verdier actively worked towards France joining the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2014. In autumn 2016, as Director of DINSIC, he accompanied and supported France's one-year presidency of the OGP.
As ambassador for digital affairs, Verdier was the French negotiator in charge of preparing the
Works
- With Jean-Louis Missika : Le Business de la haine : Internet, la démocratie et les réseaux sociaux (Editions Calmann Lévy, Paris, 2022)
- With Pierre Pezziardi : Des Startup d'Etat à l'Etat plateforme (Fondation pour l'innovation politique, Paris, 2017)[9]
- With Nicolas Colin : L'Age de la multitude, Entreprendre et gouverner après la révolution numérique (Editions Armand Colin, Paris, 2012, 2015)
Numerous contributions in collective works, such as :
- L'Etat en mode Start-Up, Le nouvel âge de l'action publique, (Eyrolles, Paris, mai 2015).
- Numérique et Libertés : un nouvel âge démocratique, Rapport n° 3119, Assemblée nationale, octobre 2015.
- Big, fast & open data. Décrire, décrypter et prédire le monde, FYP Editions, Paris, 2014.
- Le Dictionnaire politique d'Internet et du numérique (Editions La Tribune, Paris, 2010)
- TIC 2025 : Les grandes mutations (FYP Editions, Paris, 2010)
- New Age to New Edge (Orange Institute, San Francisco, 2010)
External links
- Official website
- France wants to rethink the state as a platform
- An Interview of Henri Verdier on TechCrunch
- (English) An interview of Henri Verdier in ParitechReview
- (in French) A profile of Henri Verdier in Le Nouvel Observateur
- (in French) A conference of Henri Verdier at ANDSI, the association of French CIOs about CDOs and Data, a week before being appointed CDO of France
References
- ^ Layli Foroudi (2019-06-13). "No secret safe in age of AI, says French digital envoy". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
- ^ "Blog – the ODI".
- ^ "Better with Data".
- ^ "A "World First": France's Data.Gouv.Fr Opens Platform To Citizen Submissions". TechPresident. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
- ^ "Décret n° 2014-1050 du 16 septembre 2014 instituant un administrateur général des données". Journal Officiel de la République Française. 0215. 17 September 2014.
- ^ "Décret du 24 septembre 2015 portant nomination d'un directeur, adjoint à la secrétaire générale pour la modernisation de l'action publique - M. VERDIER". Journal Officiel de la République Française. 0222. 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Publication de la politique de contribution de l'Etat aux logiciels libres". 15 May 2018.
- ^ "L'Etat passe en mode start-up".
- ^ "Des startups d'État à l'État plateforme". Fondapol (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-01.