Beatrice Van BASTELAER : Beatrice.vanBastelaer@info.fundp.ac.be CITA-The University of Namur Rue Grandgagnage, 21 B - 5000 - Namur Tel. 32 81 72 49 94 - Fax. 32 81 72 49 67 e-mail:
Beatrice van Bastelaer has a master degree in Economics from the University of Namur (Belgium). Her master thesis was devoted to the role of the EDIFACT standard in EDI diffusion.
Recent research Since 1992, she is working at CITA (Cellule Interfacultaire de Technology Assessment) at the University of Namur. CITA is a research unit specialised in the assessment of information and communication technologies. CITA, as a multidisplinary team, involves researchers from different disciplines: sociology, economy, computer science, … Beatrice van Bastelaer participates in the TEDIS program of the European Commission on the social and economic impacts of EDI. She also participated in another European research on the Social learning/shaping of Multimedia (SLIM) with a consortium of European universities. In 1995-1996, she has organised four seminars devoted to the development of Information Highways in Belgium. She is interested in the impacts of Information Highways on work and employment, in the analyses of national policies concerning Information Highways and Multimedia and in the study on the phenomenon of digital cities. She has published widely in the field and has participated to different conferences on the field. CITA is part of another COST program, COST A 14 Government and Democracy in the Information Age and more precisely of the workgroup 3 (ICT and Public Administration - One Stop Government).
Network & Affiliation University of Namur (B): http://www.fundp.ac.be/index_eng.html CITA: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~cita/pres_eng.html SLIM Social Learning in Multimedia: http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/research/slim.html COST A 14 Government and Democracy in the Information Age: http://www.cbs.dk/departments/cos/gadia.htm COST A 14 Government and Democracy in the Information Age - working group 3 (ICT in Public Administration): http://www.fgtk.informatik.uni-bremen.de/cost/
Recent Paper VAN BASTELAER Béatrice, HENIN Laurent et LOBET-MARIS Claire (eds), Villes virtuelles. Entre Communauté et Cité. Analyse de cas, L'Harmattan, Collection Villes et Entreprises, Paris, to be published. LOBET-MARIS Claire, VAN BASTELAER Béatrice (1999), " Regards sur la construction sociale des villes virtuelles ", in Actes de la conférence ICUST 1999, Bordeaux, 7-9 juin 1999, pp. 43-53. VAN BASTELAER Béatrice (1998), 'Digital cities and transferability of results', Proceedings of the 4th EDC conference on digital cities, Salzburg, October 29 & 30 1998, pp. 61-70. Available on the Web: http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~cita/slim/EDC.html
Interest in Cost269 Deepening the question of the use of ICTs in local administration and by citizens as well as within local virtual communities: how to create the feeling of membership in a virtual community how to involve users in the shaping of ICT dedicated to improve the relationship between citizens and administrations · how to stimulate uses..