The Fondation Mines-Télécom and IMT are launching their season of events themed on trust in the digital age
Trust in the digital age: meeting at Numa on March 1st with Samuel Laurent, Le Monde journalist and head of “Décodeurs”. The Fondation Mines-Télécom and IMT are launching their season of events themed on trust in the digital age. This season, which will result in the drafting of an intelligence newsletter in summer 2017, will start on March 1st with a first breakfast at Numa with Samuel Laurent, journalist at Le Monde and head of the “Décodeurs” section of the newspaper.
Trust and media in the post-truth era
During the first meeting, Aymeric Poulain Maubant, coordinator of the 2017 Fondation Mines-Télécom intelligence newsletter on distributed trust in the digital age, will present the topics that will feature in the newsletter and the breakfasts at Numa. He will show how the notion of trust is translated and perceived differently according to languages and cultures, and how this can influence the construction of trust on a more global scale.
Samuel Laurent, journalist from Le Monde and head of the paper’s “Décodeurs” columns, will speak about the evolution of trust in and through the media in the post-truth era. He will explore how the web muddies the waters of the news and will talk about fake news and the way it mirrors these new usages. He will present the current media situation, at the forefront of the crisis of representation and of the elite, which have been shaken to the core by the current anti-journalist, anti-media rhetoric. The presentation will conclude with an analysis of the mistakes and errors made by journalists and the possible way forward.
Brief biography of Samuel Laurent
After 4 years at Le Figaro, Samuel Laurent joined Le Monde in 2010 and integrated a “political” section on the website of lemonde.fr followed by the presidential newsroom, before becoming head of the “Décodeurs” section. This column in Le Monde, launched in 2014, is produced by a team of 13 people, including 5 “coder” journalists. Their tasks include news verification, data journalism and news awareness raising. He is contributing to the development of the “Decodex” of Le Monde, a toolbox to fight against fake news sites, launched in February 2017.
The Fondation Mines-Télécom intelligence newsletters
Leadership, MOOCs, Augmented Human, Artificial Intelligence – for several years now, the Fondation Mines-Télécom has published intelligence newsletters on topics related to the latest in digital innovation. In 2017, the question of trust in the digital age and its various aspects will be at the core of discussions among researchers from IMT schools and the Foundation’s industrial partners. Coordinated by Aymeric Poulain Maubant, this newsletter will be released in June.
For Véronique Deborde, “Trust in the digital age is a subject at the very heart of our major patrons’ concerns, and more generally those of civil society. It was therefore an obvious choice for topic of the year. In the months to come, other events will enrich and complete the work of researchers in order to add substance to the newsletter, which will be a clear and concise document offering a very up-to-date, composite view of the state of the art of the technological and societal challenges inherent to this subject. It will be easily exploitable within businesses. These newsletters are also opportunities for the partners of the Foundation to meet and work with the academic teams from the schools’ labs.”
Find out more about previous intelligence newsletters from the Fondation Mines-Télécom
2017 calendar
1st March
Breakfast – launching the season of events on Trust
Trust, a shifting value in society– Numa, Paris – 8:30-10:00
29 March
Seminar to prepare the newsletter – WAI BNP Paribas – 8:30-12:00
10 May
Breakfast –Trust in the digital age: what makes distributed trust possible? – Numa, Paris – 8:30-10:00
Early June: publication of the Intelligence Newsletter
21 June
Breakfast – Is trust an essential element that is still lacking for the development of the IoT and digital identities? – Numa, Paris – 8:30-10:00
11 October
Breakfast – Distributed trust: what innovation potential? – Numa, Paris – 8:30-10:00
November: public conference
