ISSUE (Interactive Support System for Usergroups in E-democracies) - proposal for research and development of "Online support of democratic processes".
Client: Spirit, Rotterdam
Most relevant tasks: co-author, concept
1999-

TURA CD-ROM (Telematics for Urban and Rural Areas) - peer review for Telecities
Most relevant tasks: peer reviewer
1999-2000

VirtuHalls (Infocities-2) - Deployment under TEN Telecom of a platform for innovative services and e-business solutions.
Client: Casema, Den Haag
Most relevant tasks: co-author, concept, Deputy General Project Director, project management, management board
1999-
N.B.: This project will run from 2000-2001. The evaluators wrote: "This proposal [...] is clearly a potentially significant milestone in the TEN-TELECOM programme."

Valorisator - proposal for research and development of the valorisation of large volume sources, under the 5th Framework Programme
Most relevant tasks: co-author
1999

Eurocities Technology Policy Forum
Most relevant tasks: peer reviewer, consultant Web site
1999-

Web site ICTO/HOB - ICT in education, The Hague education council
Most relevant tasks: Project leader
1998-1999

The Hague Explorer - cultural application for promotion of The Hague
Most relevant tasks: project supervisor, concept
1998-1999

Dynamo - improvement of Website The Hague city administration
Most relevant tasks: project supervisor, concept
1998

Digital Powerline
Most relevant tasks: Integrator and conceptualist of proposal under TEN Telecom 98 about the Digital Powerline invention of NOR.Web for application in Manchester and Stockholm
1998

Ministery of the Interior: Economic regional stimulation - opening
Most relevant tasks: consultancy, organisation, Web site Den Haag
1997

Infocities Office - commercial bureau for European project management, until 1999 affiliated with the Bureau Urban Telematics Projects of the City of Den Haag. European projects can only be managed in teams, and we chose the name of our most successful project.
Most relevant tasks: Senior project manager, European project management
1997-

Infocities - 10 year Europees city information project, budget 300 mln Euro.
Client: City of Den Haag
Most relevant tasks: Deputy General Project Director, one of the two authors, project management, management board, crossborder applications, socio-economic business plans, webmaster
1996-
N.B.: In 1997 an article was published worldwide on how at the end of the 90-s city policy is being devised, and how European projects can contribute to the integration of new media in the relation between city administrations and their citizens.

• Joost Smits, "Infocities - Support for Citizens and SMEs", in: "Global Communications - Interactive '97", published by Hanson Cooke Ltd., edition ±45.000 by the ITU worldwide, preface by US Vice President Al Gore and EU Commissionar Martin Bangemann, September 1997

On 1 July 1999 the The Hague City Council concluded that Infocities result in a city-wide-Intranet. This Residentie.Net was opened in April 2000. It is also one of the channels under VirtuHalls.

Bureau Urban Telematics Projects of the City of Den Haag
Most relevant tasks: consultant, technical advisor
1996-1999

LeoWeb Plaza - Digital City Leeuwarden
Client: Kenniscentrum Telematicatoepassingen, Leeuwarden
Most relevant tasks: consultancy, projectmanagement, conceptualising
1996-1997

Equality - Teleservices for All
Most relevant tasks: consultancy, concept Web site, testing
1996-1997

EuroWeb Plaza
The main objective is to explore and implement new ways of thinking in urban planning in order to constitute sustainable economic and social cohesion. Thus reacting in an adequate manner to the fact that enterprises in the information age are becoming footloose.
Most relevant tasks: conceptualising, consultancy
1996-
Note: in 1996 we won a EuroWeb Plaza Exploratory Award under Esprit in the 4th European Union Research and Technological Development (R&D) Framework Programme.

Digital City Weert
Most relevant tasks: inhabitant, member Advisory Board
1996-

I&E Web - Industry and Employers' Web
Most relevant tasks: full project
1996-

Website VVD Hillegersberg-Schiebroek (Dutch liberal party Rotterdam)
Most relevant tasks (as The Prize Consultancy): Webmaster
1995-

Mediaport Rotterdam
Most relevant tasks: member working group
1995-1996

Telecities - Europese Digitale Steden
Most relevant tasks: training, consultancy, testing
1994-

Development of ENTER - European communications provider
Most relevant tasks: consultancy, training
1994-

UNICE - Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe
Transeuropean communications network
Most relevant tasks: consultancy, project management, training, software development, installations
1992-1995

Pré-Prize (and activities as wage-earner): JSSSoftware - freelance programmer, editor and journalist
Most relevant tasks: free-lance programmer, editor several computer magazines in Belgium, free-lance journalist for a.o. Computer!Totaal from IDG Communications
1982-1993

Updated: 26 July 2000