Hachimi ABBA

Hachimi ABBA is Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF), based at INSA Hauts-de-France. Since January 2022 he also serves as the University’s Chargé de mission Enseignement – Formation durable, steering sustainable-development and social-responsibility initiatives across all programmes. Within the DeVisu research laboratory he acts as communication officer.

Education

• 2007 – Doctorate in Information & Communication Sciences, specialty 71 (official French decree)
• 2002 – Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in Information & Communication Sciences, UVHC
• 2001 – DESS Management de l’Innovation et Veille, IAE UVHC
• 2000 – DESS Administration des Entreprises, IAE UVHC
• 1999 – DESS Informatisation et Communication Homme-Machine, UVHC

Research Focus

Professor ABBA’s work places the human being at the centre of organisational systems. He investigates how trust, project-management practices and communication processes interact within service-sector information and quality systems. A complementary stream explores the social transformations triggered by the introduction of ICTs—especially mobile telephony and the Internet—in sub-Saharan African countries, ranging from tele-medicine adoption to digital education and media literacy.

Methodologically, he draws on qualitative approaches such as the PAT-Miroir method developed by UTC, emphasising cooperation, communication and trust in complex “thorny” projects. His field interventions include a two-year embedding within a personal-services company during his doctoral work to implement ISO 9001 certification and migrate its information system.

Publication Trends

Between 2006 and 2021 he authored or co-authored more than fifteen peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference papers. The corpus clusters around three domains: (i) trust and organisational change in service information systems; (ii) ICT adoption and policy in Francophone Africa (Niger, Togo, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire); and (iii) educational technology and digital pedagogy in African contexts. Venues include high-rank journals such as Journal of the European Union for Systemics and Les Cahiers du numérique, as well as international conferences like H2PTM, ACFAS, EUTIC and RES@TICE.

Scientific Awards & Distinctions

No specific prizes or fellowships are listed in the supplied documents.

Teaching & Advising

Professor ABBA currently teaches:

• Management & Communication Techniques – Master 2 MQDF (STAPS)
• Professional Expression & Communication – Professional Licences
• Techniques d’Expression et Communication (TECA-B-C) – 1st-year Industrial Engineering & Maintenance (continuing education)

Earlier offerings include the qualitative-methodology seminar PAT-Miroir for Master 2 and PhD students in co-accreditation with Université de Lille 3.

Laboratory & Teams

He is a member of the DeVisu research laboratory (Arenberg site) and serves as its responsable de la communication, orchestrating outreach, dissemination and stakeholder engagement activities for the unit.