I think we have to equip more and more laboratories with high-tech hardware and software so we can use all these new media. We have got projects for schools and research centers. The French education ministry has promised to give all schools cable line access, which is a pressing national need. I saw a TV programme about a small rural primary school's experience of the Internet. The pupils were communicating by e-mail with schools all over the world. This is very enriching, especially when supervised by specially-trained teachers. So that is how I see the Internet. Now I am equipped at home, more for fun, and I hope to convince my daughter to use all these tools to the fullest. *Interview of August 10, 1999 (original interview in French) = What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web? With its text database Frantext, the INaLF is greatly affected by problems of copyright and publisher's rights. I think the rules should be more flexible. At the moment, use of the database is restricted, which reduces its influence and the spread of French in general. = How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web? Personally I have no problem about the use of English, which has to be regarded as a shared communication tool. But websites should offer access both in English and in the language of their country of origin. = What is your best experience with the Internet? It was the one I recalled in 1998, when I got responses from all over the world to my very trivial question about type-faces. = And your worst experience? When I sent an email to someone by mistake. Sometimes this communication tool has to be used carefully. It goes faster than the human brain and can then be used by the recipient in a very ugly way. GERARD JEAN-FRANCOIS [FR] [FR] Gérard Jean-François (Caen) #Directeur du centre de ressources informatiques de l'Université de Caen Directeur du centre de ressources informatiques de l'Université de Caen (CRIUC), Gérard Jean-François est chargé de l'exploitation et du développement des technologies de la communication pour la recherche et la pédagogie. *Entretien du 13 mars 2001 = Pouvez-vous décrire l'activité de votre organisme? L'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie compte 24.000 étudiants. Elle est unique, donc pluridisciplinaire pour la région. De ce fait, elle est répartie sur une douzaine de sites. Les activités principales sont évidemment l'enseignement et la recherche. = En quoi consiste exactement votre activité professionnelle? Mon activité professionnelle consiste à effectuer la veille technologique et à mettre en place les moyens nécessaires à l'activité de l'établissement. Ces moyens sont essentiellement le réseau de communication, les serveurs et les équipements individuels. Sur ces équipements sont mis en place les services (messageries, bases de données, visioconférence...) nécessaires aux utilisateurs (étudiants, enseignants/chercheurs, personnels techniques et administratifs).