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Territories Poetry

Reverie by the Garonne River

3 January 20203 January 2020 Bertrand de Foucauld

To J. & L. Little by little, I am beginning to enter into the beauty of the world, at the

Environment Transports

BBC & Business Class: Rejoicing And Irony Of Sustainable Development

24 September 201931 October 2019 Bertrand de Foucauld

Life reveals tasty ironies sometimes and offers moments of true rejoicing. So today, I was listening to a geo-economic podcast

Environment Planning Transports

Ile-aux-Moines (Brittany, France): Which Answer To Nature And Man?

10 September 201912 September 2019 Bertrand de Foucauld

Because of its insularity, this territory of only 310 hectares, but with more than 17 km of indented coastline, enjoys

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Once is not custom: I have just writen an article about an entire country, and not on a local territory, as you, dear readers, are rather used to in Contrib’City. Indeed, the importance of pensions, and behind this issue, that of the public organization of France which, in certain aspects, still dates from the 1950s, deserves an article on CC. If we want our country to develop and continue to occupy a preponderant place in the European Union, it is vital that it adapts to new technologies (artificial intelligence, social networks …) and to the latest forms of management. (customer/supplier economy, horizontal organization of information and training).

This adaptation, both technical and human, we have already started it in several fields, following the example of Prof. Debré who is currently working on the capture of brain waves to move an exoskeleton (computer biology). But we also remember Prof. Montagnier, whose team was the first to discover the AIDS virus. This professor was forced to retire at the legal age by the Institut Pasteur. The United States of America was too happy to recover this brilliant researcher, a pioneer with his collaborators, on a subject that was both arduous and vital, and ahead of the fierce competition from different American laboratories whose means were clearly superior to its own.

Great progress has also been made in terms of education, training and psychology, from Françoise Dolto to the new profession of coach.

We must adopt a new management system for France so that each inhabitant is called upon to give his full potential – and can do so – and thus establish the best possible match between on the one hand his personality and his talents, and on the other share his professional activity. I would like to take this opportunity to thank two persons who always seemed to me to have fully realized this adequacy: Prof. emeritus Michel Carmona, who succeeded, by dint of tenacity, in helping me to see “behind the curtain” and to analyze a given situation in a territory; and also Arnaud de Saint Méloir, a machine learning engineering student about to finish his studies at the Ecole Polytechnique Féminine (EPF) and who realised the contrib.city website.

I look forward to hearing from you, or to any of your suggestions, dear Contrib’Cityzen, and wish you a happy new year!

Bertrand de Foucauld
PhD in planning
Local Development
Manager
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