Hans De Canck holds a Master Degree in Modern History (K.U.Leuven) and studied Library Science at the University of Amsterdam. He followed several Post Academic courses on ICT and Project Management subjects. He started his career as Scientific Researcher in an Academic Library environment, but made a change to ICT soon afterwards. He worked for four years at ELiAS, a K.U.Leuven spin-off software company. After he developed the Customer Support Services and build up the Helpdesk team, he started to work as Product Development Manager for the LibriVision team (a Library search gateway application). In 2002 he worked at VCOB (Vlaams Centrum voor Openbare Bibliotheken), where he was ICT-project manager and team member of the Vlacc-II project (Flemish Central Catalogue). In 2005 Hans joined the SMIT-IBBT staff as project & research coordinator.
 

Started his career as Scientific Researcher in an Academic Library environment, but got infected by ICT soon after that. After a short stop at SIMAC nv (network engineering), he worked for 4 years at ELiAS nv (Extended Libary Access Solutions), a K.U.Leuven spin off company. After he developed the Customer Support Services and build up the Helpdesk team, he started to work as Product Development Manager for the LibriVision (a Library search gateway application)team. In 2002, after the failure of the company, he worked at VCOB (Vlaams Centrum voor Openbare Bibliotheken), where he was project manager and team member of the Vlacc-II project (Flemish Central Catalogue). From May 2005 on, Hans became member of the SMIT-IBBT staff, as project coordinator, in order to keep the constant in- and output of current and new research projects efficiently going.

He holds a Master Degree in Modern History (KULeuven) and studied Library Science at the University of Amsterdam. He followed several Post Academic courses on ICT and Project Management subjects.

Related projects

• E-paper
• FLEET
• Cocomedia
• Erfgoed 2.0

Recent weblog posts

• FLEET CONFERENTIE 20 november 2009. Digitalisering van de Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia: Impact & toekomst (14 October 2009)
• Berlin, April 27, 2009: SMIT organizes the First International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 09) (14 April 2009)
• Onderzoeksseminarie ‘Virtuele Media’: Paul Virilio, ‘snelheid’ en ‘versnelling’ (12 September 2008)
• Research seminar ‘Virtual Media’: Baudrillard and the ‘logic of simulacra’ (25 February 2008)
• Succesfull IBBT Friday Food 5th of May (19 May 2006)
• Seminar: From the "Information Society" to the "Innovation Society" (26 April 2006)
• SMIT @ ECCR Amsterdam (14 November 2005)
• Smit @ Microsoft (14 November 2005)
• VUB Research Partners (14 September 2005)
• TNO research partner (15 August 2005)
• Research Networks (14 August 2005)