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MDD Consultancy – Information Society Services™  is a company registered in the Kamer van Koophandel Zuid-Limburg (Chamber of Commerce), Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Established in 1991 by its Managing Director, Ms. Myriam Diocaretz, Ph.D., under the name of M. Diocaretz and later Worldwide Rights and Publishing Consultants, the company has been re-defined to reflect the changes into the knowledge-based society.
Its founder and Managing Director is a published author, editor, researcher, manager and specialist in new technology, working in English, French, and Spanish. Her competencies in other languages and her expertise in intercultural communication and future and emerging technology in the 21st century are an added-value to the company.

Originally serving and representing authors and publishers within the domain of copyright, translation, subsidiary rights, public and corporate image relations, in the last five years we have expanded to include a wide range of services related to stakeholder analysis in the publishing chain, digital libraries initiatives, eContent, authoring tools, communication and dissemination,  consultancy for the establishment of EU NGOs, lobbying and networking in Europe.

Our focus is on people, with the human being and citizen as the driver and co-designer of Information and Communication tools and related technology.

Services

  • Communication strategies.
  • Management and coordination of technology enhanced services and projects.
  • Development of user-centred concepts for web design and interactivity.
  • Coordination of digitisation work between technical and non-technical teams. 
  • Monitoring of web tools for specific aims and user groups.
  • eContent creation and editing.
  • Research.
  • ICT reviews and monitoring
  • Policy reports and communication documents for the larger public.
  • Copyright policy and procedures for online content.
  • Web analysis.
  • Ethnographic and socio-cultural factors for ICT user environments.
  • Copyright consultancy, specialised in digital issues.
  • International cooperation in the area of culture, technology, e-learning, e-business.
  Examples of our services and clients since 1995 include:
  • Website monitoring of the membership registration in the recently launched partner section for civil society of The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 (EYID 2008) - an initiative of the European Commission, DG Culture. 2007
    Link: http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu  
  • Website content, as well as creation and updating of semantic categories for online book cataloguing for back-lists, series and journals; reader-centred semantic book classification http://www.rodopi.nl  (1995 to the present)
  • Website content to define eCulture and digital culture R&D.  
  • Coordination of cross-sector digitisation projects.
  • Research, supervision and coordination of e-learning projects.
  • Research on broadband deployment, mobile services and Internet product development.
  • Conceptual design for networks and portals.
  • Copyright advice for authors and/or publishers, since 1995
  • Website content and redesign of digital corporate identity for e-business:
    In 2002, the Dutch Internet Auction House Venduehuis Dickhaut Maastricht received the “Best Member Website Award”  from the National Auctioneers Association of the USA. http://www.veilingmaastricht.nl/
 

Contact: MDD-Consultants@inter.nl.net

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