Dr. France Bélanger is Director of the Center for Global Electronic Commerce and Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Bélanger held various technical, marketing, and managerial positions in large information systems and telecommunicationscorporations. She is also a consultant in electronic business and distance learning. Her research interests focus on the use of telecommunication technologies in organizations, in particular for distributed work arrangements, electronic commerce, and distance learning. Dr. Bélanger has presented her works at several national and international conferences, and has published in Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Information and Management, The Information Society, and other information systems journals. She co-authored the books Evaluation and Implementation of Distance Learning: Technologies, Tools and Techniques (Idea Group Publishing, 2000), and Foundations of E-Business Technologies (John Wiley & Sons, forthcoming). Dr. Bélanger has a Ph.D. in information systems from the University of South Florida.