Service des Usages du Numérique

English translation: Digital Technologies Service

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French term or phrase:	Service des Usages du Numérique
English translation:	Digital Technologies Service
Entered by:	Catharine Cellier-Smart

12:27 Apr 6, 2011

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / University department

French term or phrase: Service des Usages du Numérique

This is the name of a university department. It's part of the "Direction du Système d'Information" and co-exists with the "Centre des Ressources Informatiques"

It's obviously not translatable as "Digital uses department" but would be "Digital department" be sufficient ? Or do I need to get a translation of those "usages" in somewhere ?

Plenty of hits on the internet for "Digital department" but I'm not sure it's exactly equivalent to "Service des Usages du Numérique "

Catharine Cellier-Smart KudoZ activity Questions: 63 (none open) (10 closed without grading) Answers: 1049 Reunion
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Department of Digital Technologies

Explanation:
I think they are referring to the "Department of Digital Technologies".

Check this out: "La Direction des usages du numérique a pour mission d'initier, de développer et de déployer l'ensemble des projets et services liés aux Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) dans les domaines de l'enseignement, de la recherche et de la diffusion des savoirs."

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Jelena (Lena) Burgic
Local time: 21:00

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Thank you. In the end I went with Digital Technologies Service.
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Summary of answers provided

IT/Digital/Computer Applications Department

B D Finch

3 +1

Learning Technology Support Service

DouglasCarnall

Department of Digital Technologies

Jelena (Lena) Burgic

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43 mins confidence:

Department of Digital Technologies

Jelena (Lena) Burgic
Local time: 21:00
Native speaker of:

English,

Serbo-Croat

Grading comment

Thank you. In the end I went with Digital Technologies Service.

1 hr confidence:

IT/Digital/Computer Applications Department

Explanation:
They would be responsible for developing the application of digital technology to various university activities and functions.

"ELECTRONICS AND IT applications Department at Covenant University Canaanland, Ota. on Academia.edu: ...
covenantuniversity.academia.edu/..."/INDUSTRIAL_PHYSICS_ELECTRONICS_AND_IT_applications

"... as Graduate Engineer Trainees (GETs) in the IT Applications department @ John Deere Technology Center - India ..."
narendrajobs.blogspot.com/2011/.../fresh-engineering-graduates-it.html -

"This is a senior role within the newly formed Business Process and IT Applications Department and requires an exceptional people manager ..."
www.totaljobs.com/.../Development-Manager_job49783727 -

B D Finch
France
Local time: 06:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 121

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Asker: Thank you for your input.

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Learning Technology Support Service

Explanation:
My approach to translating this was to find out what such a department actually does, and then look for its counterpart in a British university.

Hits for "Services des Usages du Numérique" seem to be mostly at the Sorbonne, Strasbourg and in Réunion. The mission of the Sorbonne service seems to be to educate students in the uses of IT to support them in their various courses. (see first link). The Strasbourg service has a rather wider remit of developing online course materials etc.

University College London has a department with a similar mission which is called the "Learning Technology Support Service." (second link) It's not exactly snappy as a term, but I think you need the word support in there, as this is the IT jargon generally used when computer experts interact with ordinary users to solve their problems.

I don't think it is just "IT department," as this would imply a more overarching term in the hierarchy. The word "applications" has a particular specialised meaning in the context of IT--of developing software for particular real world use cases--and should probably be avoided unless this is actually what they are doing (which I doubt).

Reference: http://www.etu.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article199
Reference: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/e-learning/ltss

DouglasCarnall
France
Local time: 06:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

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