Pierre A. Lévy is Professor in the Department of Communication, Uni- versity of Ottawa, Canada. He occupies the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence where he is engaged in research on the design of a universal system for semantic addressing of digital documents. He completed his MA at the Sorbonne and his PhD at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. His Habilitation (PhD) was in sciences of information and communication at the Université de Grenoble. Professor Levy studies the concept of collective intelligence and knowl- edge-based societies. He is a world-leading thinker on ‘cyberculture’ and the author of many books, including L’intelligence collective (1994), Qu’est-ce que le virtuel? (1995), Cyber- culture (1997), World Philosophie (2000), Cyberdémocratie (2002), La sphère sémantique (2011), The Semantic Sphere (2011) (Photo: http://arts.uottawa.ca/communication/en/ people/levy-pierre).