When I was in Japan, I had noticed that in supermarkets stores, fruit and vegetable when very often wrapped, as in this picture I have taken then of an apple bought in a supermarket in Sangu Bashi (Tokyo) where I was staying:
At that time, seeing this apple carefully wrapped in the supermarket surprised me and made me smile, but I am seeing it differently now.
In the current situation, would you buy and eat an apple that may be 10 different people have held in their hands before it ended in your basket? As we can see how much more effective in fighting the virus Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong have been than Europe or the USA, it tells us that we can learn important lessons from these countries on habits and ways to behave to better cope with epidemics.
I joined SITA Paris in June 1978 as an engineer in the Technical Studies department which was then managed by Georges Giraudbit. After developping planning tools for the HLN and later the DTN, I led the design and implementation of the new routing algorithm of the DTN.
Later my team delivered the strategy and specification for migrating the network from airline specific protocols to open standards, and whichalso served for the RFP for the MTN.
After working on developing projects for non-airline customers, I moved to SITA Geneva in 1999, in marketing and later fiance departments.
In 2004 i left SITA to join IATA in Geneva.
With IATA I first worked on launching and developing a new business based on providing credit card payment services to travel agencies. Then I moved to IT, in charge of all data management for successfully.implementing SAP at IATA. Once that project was over I joined the Cargo department at IATA, in charge of Technical developments.
Having worked both at SITA and IATA has been a very unique experience for me!
