Nov 26, 2020
Participation of Marie-Christine Therrien in a round table on AI and COVID-19
On October 30, Marie-Christine Therrien, director of the Cité-ID LivingLab and a professor at ENAP, took part in a round table organized by the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA) on contact tracing applications developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants in the roundtable analyzed the political, social and organizational challenges of these applications based on experience during the first wave of COVID-19.Learn more about this event : https://bit.ly/2TDt5DJ ...
Nov 26, 2020
Julie-Maude Normandin receives an international prize for her doctoral thesis
This week, the Chair in Crisis Management Research at the Université Technologique de Troyes (UTT) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers (France) awarded its International Prize to Julie-Maude Normandin for her thesis,“La sécurité civile en transformation : Analyse comparative de la conception et de la mise en œuvre de la résilience face aux désastres.” (Civil security in transformation: A comparative analysis of the conception and implementation of disaster resilience). The thesis aims to understand how the new concept of“resilience,” now very popular in the civil security domain, has transformed public policies for disaster management. Through an analysis of four case studies, Normandin finds that civil security actors first used resilience as a strategic concept to consolidate and improve their practices. Subsequently, the concept was employed to broaden their capacities for action to new areas. The...
