Grégoire Pouget

Gregoire Pouget

Tech, information, digital rights

Born: 03/04/1977
Personnal website : Barbablog

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Skills

Management

Team direction and recruitment. Love Kanboard and kanban methodology.

Training

Development of several training programm and tutorials on digital safety
Facilitation of digital safety workshops for journalists an netizens (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Ukraine, etc.)

Advocacy

Speakers in several conferences and international events related to digital liberties, hacking, press freedom and freedom of Speech.

Internet

Good understanding of Internet technical infrastrucure. Great knowledge of cryptographic tools (Tor, VPN, VeraCrypt, OTR, PGP) and of the associated issues. Good front end (html5, javascript, css) and back end (PHP, Python, SQL) languages skills. Confortable with any content management system

Editorial

Writing of press releases and reports related to online surveillance and censorship

Languages

English fluent, French (native)

Miscellaneous

Linux, Windows, Mac. Strong preference for Free and Open Source Softwares


Professional background

Nothing2Hide, NGO

February 2017, present

President and co-founder: To protect their data and communications to promote freedom of speach, I have created Nothing2Hide, an association whose purpose is to help citizens and professionals to protect their data and communications. We focus especially on technology and information and how the first can empower the latter. I devote myself to digital safety trainings, public and media interventions (French festival of digital freedoms, Assises du journalisme, 34C3) and fundraising.

Library Without Borders, NGO

August 2015, August 2017

As the IT Director I led the development of every technical projects within Library Without Borders with a remote team based in Lyon, Paris, Rennes and Hong Kong. As a member of the management board, I was involved into the definition of the NGO strategy

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), NGO

July 2012, August 2014

Head of New Media Desk: I am involved in projects aiming at combating online surveillance and censorship: selection and distribution of a set of circumvention tools, creation of digital security tutorials, animation of an international network of trainers, censorship monitoring, advocacy.

July 2010, July 2012

Webmaster / IT Manager: I managed technical aspects of RSF' websites. I created new online services and was responsible for the maintenance and development of internal tools (emails, groupware, network, CRM, etc.).

31 DESIGN, Web Agency

September 2008, July 2010

I created my own company and worked as a freelance webdesigner and webdevelopper. This allowed me to discover new aspects of this job: selling a project, manage a customer relationship, business development.

CNET Networks, online media group

February 2006, september 2008

Web editor / Webdesigner: In collaboration with the technical team, I worked on several digital projects: websites redesign, creation of new online services and content types. My main priorities within these project were accessibility, Search Engine Optimization and speed optimization

Cegid, software editor

November 2000, February 2006

As a Webmaster, I managed costumers dedicated websites. I worked on several online application redesign (UI) and on the company's Search Engine Optimisation strategy.

L'ile des médias, online media group

November 1999, november 2000

During my multimedia degree, I worked at l'île des médias as an online journalist.


Education

Post graduate degree in computer sciences

University of Marne-la-Vallée, September 2000, with Honnors

Master degree in History

University of Marne-la-Vallée, September 1998, with High Distinction

Bachelor’s degree in sociology

University of Marne la vallée, June 1995


Personnal realisations

Barbablog

I edit a professional blog (4000 uv / month)

Events and conferences

Travel diary, USA 2005

A blog on my one month roadtrip in the US, from New-York to San Francisco.

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