Coordinator - Steering Committee Member

ACIDD

Association communication et information pour le développement durable (ACIDD) (France)

Communication on sustainable development is essential but suffers from an uncontrolled development. ACIDD, Association for the communication and information on sustainable development, organises international meetings and dialogues on issues related to the various aspects of sustainable development. Together with Comité 21 ACIDD created the first summer university on communication for sustainable development in 2003. Its success contributed to give birth to the global economic forum TIC21 implemented to explore the potential contribution of ICT to sustainable development. This forum gathers every year around 500 participants from all over Europe. On top on these two yearly events, ACIDD pilots monthly workshops on ICT and sustainable development issues at the DIACT (Délégation interministérielle à l’aménagement et à la compétitivité des territoires), France.  It also organised a mini-forum on these issues at the Committee of the Regions in February 2007.  Last but not least ACIDD initiated the elaboration of an education program on information society for children and teenagers (@cTICvist).

ACIDD and its staff will be in charge of managing the overall project. They will work on the implementation of the resource centre, participate in the steering committee, write progress reports and roadmaps and more generally deal with the everyday tasks related to the implementation of the network.

Mr Gilles BERHAULT is the President of ACIDD manages the organisation committees of TIC21 and of the Summer University on communication for sustainable development. He is the administrator of Comité 21, French committee for sustainable development.  He teaches communication for sustainable development in various universities and training centres. He works as an expert for the European Commission and the DIACT (moderator of prospective groups on sustainable development). He recently took part to the French “Grenelle” on environment.

Ms Alexandra DEBAISIEUX has managed several EU funded projects related to ICT and inclusion (for instance ICT to help employment in Lille urban free zone). She leads the European committee of Digital Regional Pole of the Nord Pas-de-Calais region gathering regional IT companies. She previously worked as international partnership manager of Archimed – IT Company – where she won the Archimed innovation prize regarding the environmental labelling of a printing software. She is associated lecturer at the University of Strasbourg where she organised for the Master students of European Politics a morning workshop on i2010, gathering MEP, members of the European Commission and regional representatives. She will be the project manager.