COST269 WORKING GROUP
Membership/Community
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Analysis issues
A) Conceptual framework for "user"

Each working group has the opportunity to discuss ideas and write papers on the "user" and "users" points of vue. Our working propose to enhance the knowledge of the users aspects on the three subsequent levels:

• Representations of the users, in a double sense; who are the representative of the users in all the attempt to catch their intentions , demands and desires; which sorts of images of the users are brought in the design by leaders of projects, as well computer scientists in the design as non-technician managers of the projects or representatives.
• The way of implication of the users at each phase of the process of design and development of a networking action
• Effective practices of the users, beyond the "celebrative" literature Nevertheless, have an additional analysis of who are the non-users, and why seems also an interesting idea.

B) Some transversal and theoretical entries

In this part can be found working papers and achieved texts on a more conceptual perspective (except for the "user" one, see section A above). Presently, two texts are available:

• Beatrice Van Bastelaer performed a comparison between Bangemann Report on "Information Society -May1994-and e-Europe initiative -March 2000.
• Leopoldina Fortunati presents a working paper on the "Transparency", proposed by the institutions or the power side, or enjoined by the users. One could find here texts about relationship with technological design, from the Membership/ Community prospects

C) "State of Art" statements

Here are the statements we are going to find when we take the "state of art" posture. As indicated in position papers and minutes of our group, we try to focus on "research state of art". But we are also going to load here information on important initiatives and active institutions, all over the Europe, whose reflections are well connected with research approach and issues.

C1-Research Data

research programs and knowledge funding institutions on the domains (experiments, research and evaluations/observation setting)

• existing networks of research on the domains of the group, and in the near neihbourhood (for instance, Cost A14 on Government and Democracy in Information Age"- with a sub-group on e-administration). Key centers and persons, research events.
• significant research results

C2-Significant field activities and experiments on the three domains (be very selective) C3-Reflective and active institutions (non research ones)

As soon as possible, the site-address of each interesting item on this page will be displayed with a notice will be written on. If not, one can find the link in the Virtual Library.