Month: November 2018

Organised by the Monaco Friends of Israel association in partnership with the Monaco Economic Board, this event put into perspective the risks associated with the widespread use of digital technology and how to protect yourself. Some 120 economic stakeholders and guests attended to hear some top-level speakers on the subject.

After an introduction by Association Monaco Friends of Israel President Franck Biancheri, the first talk focused on Monaco’s point of view. Dominique Riban, Director of Monaco’s Digital Security Agency, outlined the Principality’s strategy to protect IT systems in institutions, protect personal data, raise awareness and make cybersecurity a competitiveness factor, the legislation in force and his organisation’s objectives.

Martin Péronnet, Managing Director of Monaco Telecom, then underlined the crucial importance of cybersecurity for an operator, both to protect its own installations and that of its customers be they companies or private individuals.

He was followed by Haïm Tomer, former intelligence chief in the fight against terrorism and international relations in Mossad. Now working in the private sector in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, he highlighted the battle’s complexity and Israeli expertise.

For a start-up nation like Israel, one under intense regional geopolitical pressure, cybersecurity is an obvious necessity. This was the focus of the talk by Yuval Elovici, Cybersecurity Research Centre Director who heads Ben Gurion University’s Telecoms Department. The university is in Be’er Sheva, a Cyber City established by the Israeli government to develop an ecosystem that has proved very effective in bringing on start-ups in this field.

Concluding this high-level conference, co-founder and president of XM Cyber, Tamir Pardo, Mossad Director from 2011 to 2016, graphically illustrated how we all take risks every day, particularly with smartphones. “It’s as if you are putting your wallet and house keys in the middle of the road showing your schedule and when you will be absent,” he says. On a global scale, the threat is described as a “soft” nuclear bomb. Tamir Pardo and his compatriots have made themselves the spokesmen for the country’s expertise, an expertise that could be replicated here in the Principality.

The Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Principality, present in December, concerts of Baroque music at the Chapel of the Visitation.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 8:30 pm:

“Miraculous Tribes” by The Gesualdo Six

Owain Park, direction.

The Gesualdo Six is ​​a vocal sextet led by Owain Park. The ensemble favors early music and more specifically the polyphonic repertoire of the Renaissance but also offers programs that combine modern works and sacred and secular works.

Since its creation in 2014, The Gesualdo Six has given many concerts in the United Kingdom and is preparing other tours and concerts abroad, especially in Germany. In 2018, the ensemble recorded a CD, English Motets, at Hyperion.

Thursday, December 6, 2018, at 8:30 pm:

“La Spirita” by the Society of Ancient Music

Marie-Claire Bert, recorders – Michel Quagliozzi, recorders – Sibylle Schultz-Carrière, viola da gamba – Etienne Mangot, viola da gamba and cello – Camille Mugot, harpsichord – Michaëla Chétrite, organ.

“This program begins in the cozy atmosphere that precedes the Nativity with composers of the fourteenth century who celebrate the Virgin Mary in anticipation of the birth of Jesus. Prayers, meditative and more popular joys are found in music. Rather than a direct reference to the Nativity of vocal pieces, we create here a poetic path evoked by moods, joyous or collected, full of hope, love and wonder. Then Jesus is born, and our journey becomes more carnal, more human, and especially spiritual with some great church sonatas of the Baroque repertoire. Marie-Claire Bert

• Chapel of the Visitation, Monaco-Ville
• Free admission, limited seating available
• Doors open at 8pm.
• Information: +377 98 98 83 03

The 2019 Monaco International Workshop on “A historical approach for measurements and protection of Oceans and World Waters” will be held at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco on 20-21 June 2019 as one of the events of the IHO centenary celebration activities.

The Symposium will be jointly organised by the Piri Reis University, Istanbul, Turkey, Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

All IHO stakeholders are invited to contribute to the symposium by submitting a paper for the conference sessions on the themes and beyond. The abstracts are to be submitted to the Conference Secretary (iakin@pirireis.edu.tr) by 18 January 2019 in accordance with the submission guidelines indicated.

Monday, November 26, the President of the Economic and Social Council (CES), André Garino, gathered many personalities of the Principality, including HE Mr. Minister of State, Serge Telle, Government Councilors and representatives of the economic and social world, on the occasion of the traditional annual reception of CES.

In his speech, President Garino referred to the positive results of the past three years, during which 18 vows and 4 reports were drafted, and underlined the importance of the consultative role of this Assembly, a privileged forum for dialogue and proposals. whose vocation is to give an opinion on subjects related to the economic and social life of the country.

Subsequently, he expressed the wish that the Economic and Social Council continue to be associated with the reflections, on all the texts of social and economic nature.

Finally, President Garino also spoke about the next appointment of the new President of ESC and the renewal of its members.

As part of the International Day of the Rights of the Child, pupils of CM1, CM2 and 6th forms in the Principality had the chance to meet, on November 22, the director of the documentary film On the Way to School, Pascal Plisson.

The film follows four children on their journey to school – Carlos (Argentina), 11, Jackson (Kenya), 10, Samuel (India), 11, and Zahira (Morocco), 12 – confronting each day the multiple dangers in a hostile natural environment.

Presented to more than two million viewers, On the Way to School received the “Cesar Award for Best Documentary” in 2014 and was screened the same year at the United Nations Headquarters. He mentions the inequality of access to education for the world’s children and the fierce will of these adolescents who are ready to do anything to gain access to knowledge.

The students, who had all previously viewed the film with their teachers, were able to ask Pascal Plisson questions and realize that the school is not for everyone and that much more needs to be done to achieve objective of an education for all the children of the world.

This day dedicated to the 2018 edition of the International Day of the Rights of the Child ended with a public lecture by Mr. Plisson at the Technical and Hotel School of Monaco, which was attended by Isabelle Bonnal, Director of National Education, Youth and Sports, HRH the Princess of Hanover and many representatives of the institutions of the Principality including Stéphane Valeri, President of the National Council, and Patrice Cellario, Government Counselor – Minister of Education Interior.

At the end of this conference, a check of 10,000 euros was presented by the Directorate of National Education, Youth and Sports to HRH the Princess of Hanover as President of the World Association of Friends of Childhood (AMADE), in support of the essential actions of ground that this association leads for many years.