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UT
Uses of ICT
(Information and Communication Technology)
Project Leaders :
Myriam Le Goff-Pronost
and Thibault de Swarte
Department:
• Logics in Uses,
Social Science
& Information Science
Project team:
Annabelle Boutet,
Myriam Le Goff-Pronost,
François Deltour,
Annie Blandin,
Philippe Béraud,
Bernard Gourvennec,
Thibault de Swarte,
Nicolas Jullien,
Virginie Lethiais,
Bertrand Seys,
Gérald Retali,
Clara Kovési,
Raruca Gorea,
Myrtil Rolin,
Harisoa Ny Aina
Rakotomalala,
Mickaël Le Mentec,
Bérangère de Saint Laon,
Karine Roudaut,
Wided Smati,
Dandi Petauton,
Antiago Ruano Rincon
Aims and objectives throughout the project
The "Use of Information Technologies" project was undertaken with a
multidisciplinary approach, bringing together economics, management
science, law, sociology and psychology. The research is based on
partnerships, mainly with universities in Brittany, the scientific interest group
Marsouin, and various learned societies. Three themes emerge :
• public uses ;
• private or residential uses;
• professional uses.
The main themes concern the understanding of social and psychological
behaviors, and economic and legal use analysis.
The tools used are epistemological reflection, qualitative studies,
quantitative modeling, computer simulation, cognitive economics, the
critical study of legal texts, field analysis, statistical investigation, and
evaluation.
The private use theme fits within a framework of psychosociological
perspective and innovation marketing.
The professional use theme relies on :
1. the circulation of information within the organization ;
2. the reconfiguration of territories by ICT ;
3. electronic commerce.
The public use theme includes various other sub-themes: public policy,
decision, e-administration, and e-governance.
In 2006, a matrix of the UT project was established, including a horizontal
technological research field (ICT) and three vertical but multidisciplinary
approaches to uses : organization, localization, and evaluation. In 2008, a
significant development in the area of regulation encouraged us to add a
fourth column to the matrix. The project took on more depth at that point,
with the rather theoretical research "regulation-organization-localization"
triptych being the natural complement of a more empirical "evaluation"
line of research.
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1) CMCU : Comité mixte de coopération universitaire (Mixed Committee for Inter-University Cooperation)