Serge Soudoplatoff

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Serge Soudoplatoff (born 1954) is a French technologist, commentator and author, noted for his ability to explain technology trends to industry, government and corporations.^[1]

Born in 1954, Soudoplatoff graduated from France's L'Ecole Polytechnique and, in his early career, worked as a cartographer, specializing in satellite positioning systems (Landsat and Navstar) and with IBM where he conducted research into pattern recognition. Soudoplatoff then moved to Cap Gemini where he managed its Paris research centre and then to France Télécom, where he was the Director of Innovation, launching projects on mobility and the Internet, and IP telephony.^[2]

Since then, Soudoplatoff has become a public face of the Internet revolution, in particular, promoting the Internet-enabled paradigm peer-to-peer as an innovation strategy. He is responsible for developing Government 2.0 strategies, such as open-data,^[3] within Fondapol, the French think-tank for promoting innovative thinking in the political sphere.

Although an advocate for disruptive Internet-based production models such as co-creation, Soudoplatoff controversially accepted an invitation (2010) to work for Hadopi Labs, an arm of the French "Haute autorité", (a governmental regulatory commission) responsible for enacting the Hadopi Law, a restrictive law on downloading copyright material.^[4] Justifying his involvement, Soudoplatoff wrote, "as I am more a man of bridge than a man of wall, I found it a challenge to change things from inside Hadopi, rather than criticize it from the outside".^[5]

Soudoplatoff's first startup, 'HighDeal', was founded in the R&D labs of France Télécom in 1996, opened for business in California in 1999, and was sold to SAP in 2009. More recent projects include an open-source Virtual Worlds platform Vastpark, and more recently Scanderia. Soudoplatoff is also a strategic advisor to the virtual worlds analytics company, kzero. Serge Soudoplatoff teaches in Paris, at the European business school, ESCP, and the information and multi-media school HETIC, where he created the France's first course in the use and practice of virtual worlds.

Soudoplatoff's books include Avec Internet, où allons-nous? ("Where is the Internet Taking us?") (2004)^[6] and "Le Monde avec Internet:apprendre, travailler, partager et créer à l'ère numérique" ("The Internet World: learn, work, share and create in the digital age") (2012).^[7] Soudoplatoff has also written a satirical novel set in the enterprise world, La multinationale française (The French Multinational).^[8]

Soudoplatoff is a prolific blogger, both in French.^[9]^[10] In 2010 and 2012, technology magazine 01net nominated Soudoplatoff as one of France's top 100 influencers on the nation's digital economy.^[11]

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