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January 2002
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The New Paths of Knowledge |
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Dear (faithful) Readers,
It always gives us great pleasure to greet you every four months, since quite a few years now and today, we may complement these greetings with all our best wishes for 2002! You are well over 2000 people reading us (or not?) in all parts of the world, most of you engaged in professional activities close to our own. Some of you also visit our web site, where by the way, all past issues of our Newsletter can be found; this is the reason why we never issue an annual report: just look at our last three issues at any point in time, and it will give you a fair overview of our recent activities. Right now, we are starting two new EC contracts, ADONIS and 6NET, while our NGN-LAB project was just successfully reviewed – and we may pre-announce an important event that will take place at ULB on March 19: “IPv6 in Belgium and in Europe – The future of the Internet”; make a note in your agendas if you live close enough to Brussels! Meanwhile, on top of the recent activities described in this issue, we maintain our long term relationships with BANKSYS, BELNET, CIRB/CIBG, CISCO, DIMENSION DATA, as well as the Belgian Broadband Platform, the Belgian Teleworking Association, BELTUG, the Brussels Teleport, DNS.BE and the Walloon Telecommunications Agency. With three new faces in the Group in the last months (and no departures!), and our collaboration with ARPnet, we are again more than 15 people working together and advancing on the New Paths of Knowledge. The pictures below will let you see how good we look! Happy reading,
Paul VAN BINST
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The
concepts of teleworking, flexible working, e-work attract more and more attention
and are taken into consideration by many - private and public - organisations.
Through the Belgian Teleworking Association and the FLEXWORK project, we have been involved in many events where these matters are presented, discussed, indeed sometimes hotly debated, by people who are practically concerned with the possible outcome of the “new ways of working”. A solid series of workshops and presentations were conducted in a few months, as can be seen below (the FLEXWORK project is particularly aimed at the Belgian Luxembourg province and at the French Ardennes department): |
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2, Marche-en-Famenne (FOREM event) - October 15, Brussels Teleport (in partnership with the EMERGENCE project) - November 6, Sambreville (FOREM event) - November 12, Brussels, eWeek2001 Awards Ceremony and BTA cocktail - November 29, Donchéry (French Ardennes) - December 5, Lessives (FOREM event) - December 6, Tenneville (Belgian Luxembourg) The picture was taken at the Marche-en-Famennes event. |
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ASCOM products |
"IT-SCAN" PUBLICATION |
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Before commercialising their security products, ASCOM had the assessment
of their products made by STC. The products of ASCOM are of the IT_SEC range
and are based on the smart cards technology.
The survey made on the ASCOM products consists in verifying the features announced of each product, and to make a comparison with some competitor products in terms of offered features. Service Télématique et Communication will also participate in the seminar that ASCOM will organize next February in order to announce its entrance into the market of security. |
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Due to the success of the "technology watch" project, the contract between
Brussels Technopol and ULB-STC has been renewed, to produce a series of
newsletters during the year 2002.
The activity consists in a permanent survey of the evolution of the ICT world, with a special attention to the news that may interest companies in the Brussels Region; news collected by ULB-STC are assembled in a periodic newsletter, called "IT-SCAN", sent to about 700 organizations, who may ask Technopol for more information and documents related to the subjects summarized in the publication, in Dutch and French. The 2002 contract foresees a number of newsletters as well as some thematic publications. |
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