Vivendi

Sharing knowledge

Setting high standards regarding the quality of content, encouraging dialogue between cultures, raising public awareness of sustainable development issues, and facilitating access to information technologies define this issue of sharing knowledge – a strategic one for Vivendi, whose business units are major players in the digital revolution.

• Promoting pluralism of information and quality of content
• Encouraging intercultural dialogue
• Raising awareness of sustainable development issues
• Facilitating access to ICTs and to content

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Focus

Vivendi invited by the United Nations to the Alliance of Civilizations Forum, Doha (December 11-13)

Vivendi is invited for the second consecutive year to speak during the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum. The 4th UNAOC annual Forum took place from December 11 to the 13th in Doha (Qatar). Pascale Thumerelle, VP Sustainable Development, spoke in the plenary session « New strategies for intercultural dialogue, understanding & cooperation ». Indeed, Vivendi defined, as early as 2003, the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue as strategic issues of its sustainable development policy.

Aware of the fact that the group’s business activities play a major role in strengthening mutual understanding and social ties, Vivendi is committed to promoting human rights throughout its sphere of influence, through its activities as a producer and distributor of content and its services offerings. In choosing to promote cultural diversity on the different continents where the group is present and by investing massively in content and networks, Vivendi has the ambition to encourage its customers’ participation in cultural lives, to facilitate exchange between and among them via the communication and information technologies, to nourish intercultural dialogue, and to encourage open-mindedness between peoples and generations.

Vivendi, as a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, takes advantage of this occasion to reassess its attachment to human rights. December 10 is a milestone date since it is the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the worldwide Human Rights Day.

Partners’ voices

 ASDR 2010

Naoual El Ouafay, Responsible for Transmission Deployment Department, Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2010)
Maroc Telecom contributes to information highways for development in Africa
« For several years, Maroc Telecom has been developing information highways linking all the cities in the Kingdom via broadband. With over 23,500 km of fiber-optic cables(...) »

Diane Emdin, Coordinator of the Create Joy program, Communications and Sustainable Development Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)
Create Joy, Vivendi’s solidarity program
« Under its solidarity program Create Joy, Vivendi supports some twenty projects in France, the United States, the UK, Africa (Morocco, Mali, and Burkina Faso) and Brazil (...) »

Charles-Édouard Vincent, Director, Emmaüs Défi France (Emmaüs charity’s dedicated program supporting disadvantaged persons)
(ASDR 2010)
SFR and Emmaüs Défi launch the Telephony and Solidarity Program
« The Telephony and Solidarity Program is aimed at persons in a situation of precarity, oriented by social workers in Paris. This is an authentic program aimed at helping(...) »

 ASDR 2009

Christine Cauquelin, Directrice Director, Documentaries, Canal+ Group
(ASDR 2009)
Canal+, a creator of progressive documentaries
« In 2009, Canal+ reaffi rmed its documentary policy of engaging today’s world. Playing a major role in exploring major national and international issues (...) »

Abderrahim Koumaa, Director of Network Planning and Control, Networks & Systems, Maroc Telecom Group
(ASDR 2009)
Maroc Telecom contributes to reducing the digital divide
« For several years, Maroc Telecom has been engaged in efforts to reduce the digital divide in order to fight exclusion, encourage access and sharing of knowledge, while strengthening connectivity with the rest of the world in the Kingdom and Africa (...) »

 ASDR 2008

Rodolphe Buet, Executive Vice President, International Distribution and Business, StudioCanal
(ASDR 2008)
« Managing a back catalogue as rich as StudioCanal’s, including prestigious films and directors like Senso by Luchino Visconti, À Bout de souffle (Breathless) by Jean-Luc Godard, and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (...) »

Mike Griffith, Chief Executive Officer Activision Publishing, Activision Blizzard
(ASDR 2008)
« At Activision Publishing, we realize that our social impact is greater than the games that we make. Video games are an ideal medium to promote social values and cultural diversity (...) »

Janie Letrot, Managing Director, Regulation, Communication and International Development, Member of the Management Board of Maroc Telecom
(ASDR 2008)
Maroc Telecom subsidiaries and Sustainable Development in Africa
« Mauritel, Onatel and Gabon Telecom have listed the development and democratization of telecommunications and new information technologies among their priorities (...) »

Arnaud Lucaussy, Director of Regulation and Economics, SFR
(ASDR 2008)
« SFR is continuing the deployment of its mobile and fixed networks, an essential dynamic for territorial development (...) »

Arielle Saracco, Head of Canal+ Original Programming, Canal+ Group
(ASDR 2008)
Using content to promote Sustainable Development
« Canal+ programs provide a forum for sustainable development issues every day. These issues include solidarity, the fight against exclusion, discrimination, discovering other cultures, protecting the environment, (...) »

 SDR 2007-2008

Michael Lang, President of Deutsche Grammophon
(SDR 2007-2008)
Deutsche Grammophon launches its DG Web Shop
« With the launch of the DG web shop, music lovers can easily access the best and broadest collection of classical music from the best known classical label in the world (...) »

 SDR 2006-2007

Martine Brousse, Director, La Voix De l’Enfant, France
(SDR 2006-2007)
Mobilizing young people
« Mobile telephony continues to surprise us! Wireless communication means that you can talk, send an SMS messages, or send a photo even if you’re in the mountains, at sea, or at the opposite end of the world. But even more (...) »

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