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The dramatic rise and constant progress of data and telecommunications technologies is contributing directly to a spectacular development of services related, whether directly or indirectly, to the processing and transmission of information. The current Technological (R)evolution is giving birth to practices which are at the root of a deep transformation in the way we live, in our habits of production and consumption. Indeed, we are all taking part in the progressive inauguration of a new social structure: that of the "Information Society".

Such an upheaval raises several technical, judicial and economic questions. The degree course "Law and Management in Communication and Information Technologies" (DGTIC: Droit et Gestion des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication) intends to provide answers to these questions in the light of four complementary disciplines: law, management, economics and technology. The degree course is organised by the faculties of Law, Economics and Business Managememt, together with the Institute of Computer Technology. The curriculum aims to educate and empower the student to attain the following goals:

• Awareness: The student must be able both to comprehend the reality of new information and communications technologies (NICT) and to perceive the challenges and social changes they imply.

• Analysis: Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, the student will gain a command of those concepts which enable rigorous analysis of the judicial, economic and technical issues raised by the emergence and diffusion of NICT.

• Action: Through individual case studies the student is confronted with practical problems facing either businesses that produce or use products and services connected to NICT, or the State in its role of market regulator.