Yves Punie

Yves Punie’s Summary

Yves Punie is senior scientist at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a European Commission Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) (http://www.jrc.es) based in Seville. Currently, he is project manager of eLearning, looking at the future of ICT and Learning, at ICT-enabled learning in the EU New Member States, and at ICT and learning in an ageing society. He is also involved in research on the socio-economic impact of web 2.0 or social computing, on Learning 2.0 and on the potential of ICT for inclusion.

Punie has also worked on the social and technological aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life, on the future of the media and the media industries, on social capital in the knowledge society and on privacy, security and identity in the future information society. Before joining the IPTS in 2001, he was interim Assistant Professor at the VUB and senior researcher at SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications). He holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and (co-)authored more than 25 publications and presented more then 50 papers at different occasions.

Yves Punie’s Experience

• researcher
        Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (European Commission / Joint Research Centre)
  
        (Research industry)
  
        2001 — Present (8 years)
    
• Senior researcher
        European Commission Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
  
        (Research industry)
  
        2001 — Present (8 years)     
• Researcher
        IBBT-SMIT, VUB
  
        (Research industry)
  
        1990 — 2001 (11 years)