Rudi Vansnick

ISOC Belgium initiator of the consortium with ISfTeH going for gTLD .health.

Rudi Vansnick (° 1955) graduated Accountant (EISTC - Enghien 1977). Rudi Vansnick (° 1955) graduated Accountant (EISTC - Enghien 1977). Rudi started his professional career at the Ministry of Agriculture and quickly became involved in the digitisation process of government administration. In 1988 he developed the "pharmacy computer" solution, bringing communication facilities to pharmacy distribution centres and pharmacists (in collaboration with Labo Flandria, Gent). The elaborated solution was later implemented in France, Luxemburg and Germany, with national regulations and laws incorporated for each country.

A few years later he designed and implemented a huge IT-architecture for logistics and communication purposes in Hungary for a food/non-food distribution corporation (TiszaCoop). More recently he was involved in the IT-outsourcing contract of the Flemish government for about 2 years. An impressive experience was gathered while implementing corporate decisions on regional and local level such as the Flemish portal website.

Since 2000 he has been president of the Belgian chapter of the Internet Society, an organisation focusing on the promotion of the internet for everyone. He participates in national debates with federal and regional governments on topics such as cyber criminality and security issues related to Belgian citizens. In November 2004 he became more and more involved in Internet issues and debates all around the world - in Bangladesh, Tunis, Hannover. In 2005 he became the national expert for the World Summit Awards and one of the 38 Grand Jury members from all over the world in electing the 40 best e-Content projects worldwide.

2006 saw him focusing on breaching the Digital Divide through projects in regional and European organisations. His goal: to capture the voices of the Internet user, individual as well as in an organisational environment, understanding the needs and burdens of each. He considers the most difficult hurdle to be the fact that while culture and technology are far away from each other, they should be mutually supportive.

His 30 years experience in ICT was a perfect basis for the study ISOC Belgium together with EROV made on the usage of ICT in the Social Profit sector in East-Flanders. The result of this survey, which last till end of 2007, The ICT Whitebook for the Social Pofit is available in electronic format by simple request at www.ictwitboek.be. It contains an overview of the ICT inventory in the Social Profit in East-Flanders and several requirements and recommandations for the sector itself but also for government and the ICT sector.

December 6th Rudi participated in the International Conference in Washington focusing on the Rights and Protection of Children in the Web 2.0 World. An issue he was already involved in during the Round table in June 2006 in Brussels, in presence of Ms. Viviane Reding and several important authorities. Following this congress, he participated in the workshop organised by ETSI in February, focusing on what should be done by the telco's for children up to 12 years of age.

April 2008 the general assembly of TIK vzw (usersgroup Telecom & Internetcustomers in Belgium - some 10.000 members) has decided to elect a new board. Rudi moved from secretary to president for a mandate of 3 years. By selecting Rudi TIK hopes to move on in the recognition of the organisation by the national government and will push up the defence of the Internet user in different cases.

Universal Peace Federation nominated Rudi as an Ambassador for Peace during the Global Peace Festival in Tokyo(November 2008)

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• rudi.vansnick [at] isoc.be

• ISOC Belgium

Affiliations: ISOC Belgium, ISOC-ECC, EURALO, TIK vzw

Location: Destelbergen Belgium

Phone: 32 9 3293916

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AFFILIATIONS

Internet Society (ISOC Belgium): president Belgian Chapter. www.isoc.be
ISOC European Chapters Coordinating Council - Barcelona (Spain) : vice-chair www.isoc-ecc.org
Board member European Regional At Large Organisation (EURALO) : www.euralo.org
TIK vzw : president www.tik.be
World Summit Award : national expert, organiser of the Belgium World Summit Award 2005 - 2008 www.wsa-belgium.be
Member Grand Jury WSA - September 2005 Bahrain (WSIS) www.wsis-award.org
W3C : representative for Belgium and Luxemburg. www.w3c.nl
ICANN At Large Structure (ALS) : member www.alac.icann.org
European Regional At Large Organisation (EURALO) : board member www.euralo.org
Expert evaluator for eTEN and European Commission FP6/FP7 - IST.
Member Steering Committee Global Forum 2006 - Paris www.items.fr
Peter Peterschapsprogramma Social Profit EROV Gent
Boardmember OpenDocSociety.org.
Docent Social Profit en Publiek Management - Informatie en Communicatie Management - Hogeschool Gent
Ambassador for Peace - UPF.

Presentations - Publications - Conferences:

Upcoming :

Internet Governance Forum - Hyderabad India : 2-6 December 2008
Lunchcauserie Hogeschool Gent - School voor Social Profit Management : 24 January 2009

2008

Hearing in Belgian Federal Parliament on Internet Security in Belgium - January 2008
Dreamday - 12/3/2008
Debate on e-Commerce confidence by customers - Belgium e-Business Expo - 19/3/2008
Keynote speaker at the VMWARE Roadshows (Belgium - Luxemburg) - June - September 2008
32nd ICANN meetings in Paris - June 2008
Moderator at European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG) - October 2008
Actif participation at 33rd ICANN meetings in Cairo - November 2008
Article in Social Profit Jaarboek -Standaard Uitgeverij (October 2008)

2007

Digitale divide congress - Belgian Senate - 9/3/2007
28th ICANN Meeting 24 - 30/03/2007 - Lisbon - Portugal
OpenDocSociety Belgium 14/11/2007 - Gent
FOSI International Conference 6/12/2007 - Washington - USA
Whitebook ICT for Social profit - December 2007

2006

CeBIT 2006 - Focus on e-Content 12/03/2006 - Hannover - Germany
6th European Conference on e-Government - 26-28/4/2006 - Marburg - Germany
IT criminaliteit : veiligheid voor alles - 28/11/2006 - EROV Gent
2nd Annual Mobil Gambling Asia Summit - 31/10 - 1/11/2006 - Hong Kong
The Gaming and Gambling New Product Development Conference - 6 & 7 December 2006 - London - UK

2005

Lecturer seminars EROV - Feb-May 2005 - Internet & Privacy
ECEG05 - 5th European Conference on e-Government - Panel debate on Top Three challenges of e-Government
Top3 Challenges for e-Government - Presentation on EU website
Article in De Tijd 23-6-2005 "Virtueel gepluimd" - cyber criminality in Belgium
Vienna - Austria : Rapporteur at the UN WSIS International Conference on e-Content & Creativity
Manama - Bahrain : Member of the Grand Jury for the World Summit Award 2005
Dhaka - Bangladesh : Guest of Honour - Keynote speaker at UNDP WSIS Int. Congress
Global Forum 2005 - Brussels