Philippe Quéau

Born in 1952 with Casablanca (Morocco), Philippe Quéau is a former student of the Polytechnic school. Qualified engineer of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of Telecommunications. He is titular of a DEA of the Information sciences and Communication (Practical School of the High Studies in Social sciences).

Imagined

Philippe Quéau was research director with the National institute of Audio-visual (INA) of 1977 to 1996. He was responsible for the group of research on the televirtuality (virtual cloning) and founder of the Imagina program. This forum of the new Images organized each year in Monaco, was one of the world appointment of virtual, i.e. of the Synthesized image, the special effects, the innovation of the image, bringing together researchers, originators of video games, artists, realizers of cinema, television and publicity.

Internet

It created one of the first French Web server the " Médiaport" INA in 1994. This waiter will lodge in particular the first sites of SCUMS and the Diplomatic Monde. As a respected expert and a pioneer, it will be those which will make known the Internet in France. Some could see in him energetic a technophile, however it develops a humanistic reflection on the cultural and noncommercial Internet, its sociétaux, ethical and philosophical impacts. In the Nineties, it mentions also problems such as the Digital divide between North and the South, the rich person and the poor. As well as the relative questions with the division, with the accessibility of the public domain (contained, files, free software) and community property (educational stakes).

UNESCO

He becomes international civil servant while entering to UNESCO as Directeur of the Division of the Company of Information. In 2003, he becomes Directeur of the Office of UNESCO in Moscow. Currently Representing UNESCO for the Maghreb, it directs the office of Reduction covering the worldwide of the Maghreb.

Television and televirtuality

He is the author of several television series on the synthesized images and Co-realizes in 1983 with André Martin, the first French film in 3D " Vole" house;. He will organize the first world connection of three-dimensional televirtuality per telephone link with immersion 3D " dans" the abbey of Cluny.

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