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La Société informatique de

France

Colin de la HiguerafOSSA, Lille

4th December 2012

http://www.societe-informatique-de-france.fr/

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Small vocabulary issue

The French word Informatique covers a complex reality, which does not match ICT, Information Technology, Informatics or Computer ScienceI will use either and all of these terms in this talk.

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The 31st May 2012Specif became SIF, the Société Informatique de France

Members approved changes in rules allowing to ask to become Association Reconnue d’Utilité Publique

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A small presentation of the SIF

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The situation in 2011

Informatics was the only scientific subject without a learned society

Volatility: STIC (ICT), Numérique (Digital…)… Continuity is needed

High societal issues: primary and secondary education, digital society, jobs and careers…

Very important: propose that speakers for informatics coordinatetheir actions, positions, responses, discourses…

Structural aspect: catalyse energies for more than higher education

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Is there a need for a SociétéInformatique de France ?

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What does the SIF do?

Building the SIFCNRS, INRIA, UniversitiesScientific CouncilInternational representationAsking for ARUP status

Informatics in primary and secondary education ISN in all series of the BaccalauréatConvincing that computer science should be taught by computer scientists

Informatics as a scienceOther learned societies (SMF, SMAI, SFP, SEE)Other societies in computer science

IndustryTalking to the Syntec, the Cigref, Pascaline, the MunciRelations with open software Observing career issues

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Some key questions

Informatics in educationInformatics in the digital worldInformatics as a scienceInformatics, jobs and careers

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SIF Scientific Council

Serge Abiteboul, chair Gérard Berry Gilles DowekAnne-Marie KermarrecClaire Mathieu Anca MuschollLaurence NigayMaurice NivatMarie-France Sagot

From industryFrançois BourdoncleCatherine Rivière Gérard RoucairolPascale Vicat-Blanc

From the SIF boardMax DauchetJean-Marc PetitFlorence SèdesColin de la Higuera

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Is Computer Science more

open than other sciences?

Permanent contradiction:

Using a M.. to protest against M…!

Who do I hate more?The person who sends me a docx I can’t openThe person who refuses to open my rtf

In all universities there are a few experts, but generally there isn’t a policyKey problem:

Misunderstanding the problem

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Proposed answer #1

Open concepts are difficult to understand without a background in Informatics

That is why teaching Informatics in secondary education is essential

Furthermore, the teacher has to know what he is talking about: he should be trained and qualified for that job

[If I have to teach cooking, I can do it from the books and teach cooking from the books ]

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Understanding is essential

Second reason of students for not picking CS at University is that when they have their first course, they believe it is too lateThis is particularly the case for girls

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Proposed answer #2

Open EducationWe all write lectures (more than we write software!)

We typically prepare our lectures by reading books and articles and downloading stuff from the webThen we don’t know

If we are allowed to (re)-use the stuffIf we are allowed to be filmed using the stuff

If we can distribute our courses containing the stuff

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Proposal

Convince the academia to share their teaching resources

As a side effect, they should build a non theoretical understanding of open software issues

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Attribution – attribute the author

Noncommercial – no commercial use

No Derivative Works – no changes allowed

ShareAlike – changes allowed, but only if you put the new work under the same license

What should a teacher choose?

advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

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Possibly

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advancing formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.

OCW Course Growth Globally

Slide by Meena Hwang, OCWC

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Open education, links

www.ocwconsortium.orghttp://openmooc.org/

http://www.societe-informatique-de-france.fr/