Rudi Vansnick

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Rudi Vansnick (born 8 September 1955 in Herfelingen, Belgium), 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.

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.

Currently Rudi is involved in a project focusing on the ICT needs of the Social Profit and will write the ICT Whitebook for the Social Profit, with publication expected around mid December 2007.

AFFILIATIONS

Internet Society (ISOC Belgium): chairman Belgian Chapter.
ISOC European Chapters Coordinating Council - Barcelona (Spain) : vice-chair.
TIK vzw : chairman
EURALO : boardmember
World Summit Award : national expert, organiser of the Belgium World Summit Award 2005 / Member Grand Jury WSA September 2005
W3C BeNeLux : representation for Belgium and Luxemburg. (see ISOC Belgium)
ICANN At Large member www.alac.icann.org
Member Steering Committee Global Forum 2006 - Paris www.items.fr
Member Steering Committee eCademy Belgium
Regional director Academici - Belgium www.academici.com
Peter Peterschapsprogramma Social Profit EROV Gent

Presentations - Publications - Conferences:
2007
28th ICANN Meeting 24 - 30/03/2007 - Lisbon - Portugal
FOSI 1st International Conference 6/12/2007 - Washington - USA

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