Born on 15 June 1955 in Grenoble, Alain Le Diberder entered ENS Cachan in 1975, and two years later obtained a post-graduate diploma (DEA) in economic conditions and policies at Paris 1. He passed the agrégation in Social Sciences the following year, and in 1980 obtained a doctorate in the Economics of Telecommunications.
After five years as a teacher and researcher, Alain Le Diberder was appointed director of the "Media and Communication" department at the University of Paris in 1983. Economic Forecasting and Information OfficeIn 1989, he became technical adviser to the cabinet of Jack Langthen Minister of Culture and Communication, in charge of media and new technologies. He then became adviser on programmes to the President of France Télévision for three years, where he produced Video Games Night (1994) on France 3.
With his brother Frédéric, he wrote the first 'serious' book on video games, Who's afraid of video games? (La Découverte, 1993) and for two years wrote the video game review column in Liberation. In 1994 he became director of new programmes at Canal+where he launched the Cyberflash (500 issues from 1995 to 1998) and Cyberculture (40 from 1995 to 1999), as well as the Cyber Night(1996). At the same time, in March 1995, he founded the subsidiary Canal+ Multimediawhich has published a number of games such as Versailles 1685: Conspiracy at the Court of the Sun King (1996), but also developed the virtual universe The Second World (1997).
Finally, at the launch of the digital version of Canalsatellite in 1996, he founded the C:dedicated to digital technology, which in September 1998 became dedicated to video games under the name Game One. In 2001, Alain Le Diberder left Canal+ and co-founded Buzz2buzz (formerly CLVE), a "new media architecture firm" where he designed, among other things Cultureboxthe cultural portal of France 3and FilmoTVthe group's VOD platform Wild Bunch. From 2010 to 2012, he was Managing Director ofAllociné TV then, from 2013 to 2017, Director of Programmes atArte. He wrote numerous articles and ten books between 1983 and 2012, and in 2004 created the local channel Télégrenoble and was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
This is a great honour for the association MO5.COM to benefit from the support of Mr Alain Le Diberder. It is thanks to him and his interest in the work of Philippe Dubois as early as 1996, notably for the creation of a virtual museum for Canal+ New Programmesa show Cyberculture for 25 years of video games, for participation in the first Video Games Encyclopaedia and Video Game City from Lyon with our other honorary member Bertrand BrocardOur chairman will be continuing his efforts to complete the first French-language virtual museum dedicated to digital heritage, which will lay the foundations for the association.
