Podcast. Guillaume Rozier, the Covid-19 tracker

On May 22, he was awarded the National Order of Merit. A reward which is, for the young engineer Guillaume Rozier, the fruit of work recognized at the highest level of the State and which began with his parents, at the beginning of the first confinement.

In March 2020, while a student in engineering school, Guillaume Rozier launched alone and on a voluntary basis CovidTracker, a site that publishes daily graphs to follow the progress of Covid-19 in France. The VaccinTracker version will follow and, above all, the Vite ma dose site, on which the vaccination campaign in France will be based.

But these recently awarded individual initiatives also highlight the flaws of a French government which has not been able to make available to as many people as possible the figures linked to the pandemic, yet essential to the management of a large-scale health crisis.

In this episode of the podcast “L’Heure du Monde”, Zeliha Chaffin and Jonathan Parienté, journalists at the Economy and Decoders departments of the World, talk to us about the Guillaume Rozier “phenomenon” and analyze the administration’s failings on the issue of open data.

An episode produced by Cyrielle Bedu, directed by Amandine Robillard, and presented by Jean-Guillaume Santi.

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