In this page I am going to collect and share, using ICTconsequences Bibliography, some of the works I have been doing along or with fellows.

During 2005 - 2007 I was working in the Project Internet Catalonia “Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health” directed by the Prof. Manuel Castells.

This research project analyses the interaction between information and communication technologies, organisational change, cultural change and relationships with users in the public system of health services in Catalonia.

The study will include a statistical analysis of the dissemination and uses of information and communication technologies in the public health system, including hospitals, primary care centres, clinics and other service delivery centres. It will also analyse the uses of communication technology in the relationship between these centres, the health administration, social security and insurance companies.

The study plans also to conduct a qualitative study of the social practices that condition the introduction of new technologies in three major hospitals. It will also analyse health-related websites in Catalonia, with particular emphasis on the uses of these webs by patients. We will also study the development of Internet-based self-help groups among patients and their relatives. We will also carry out a series of in-depth interviews with experts and managers of the health administration system, MDs, nurses, paramedics, hospital workers, associations of patients, biomedical researchers and managers of hospitals and health services.

A few lines about myself. My name is Francisco Lupiáñez- Villanueva (or just Paco a typical Spanish name) and I begun this site as a blog following the concept of Personal Research Portal developed by Ismael Peña.

I work as a lecturer at Open University of Catalonia, School of Information and Communication Science, teaching and coordinating issues related to the Network Society:

During 2008 I have been working as a researcher in  the project “Citizens, Health and the Internet in Catalonia” directed by Prof. Castells. Before this (2007-2005) I was involved  in the Project Internet Catalonia “Technological Modernisation, Organisational Change and Service Delivery in the Catalan Public Health” directed by the Prof. Manuel Castells.

In 2003, I gave support in every e-learning UOC UNESCO Chair project, and I also had been teaching and doing some contents for the UOC’s E-learning International Master Degree.

My research is concerned with the social, economic, cultural and policy issues associated with information and communication technologies; so using Prof. Castells theoretical blueprint I’m interested in the relationship between the new technological paradigm -informationalism- and the current social structure -Network Society-.

My research interests can be written, in a broad sense, this way:

• Education, Health and Government and the Internet.
• Digital Economy.
• New Media and Communication.
• Openness at the informationalism paradigm (Open Access, Open Science,…)
• e-Science
• Web Science

You can contact me: flupianez[at]ictconsequences.net