Marc Bélanger is a labour union educator specializing in information technology and distance education via computer communications. He works for the Workers' Activity Programme (ACTRAV) of the training centre of the International Labour Organization]] (ILO) in Turin, Italy. ACTRAV'S objective is to help build the capacities of unions in developing countries.

Bélanger has a Master's in Media Studies from The New School in New York and a PhD in computer communications from Simon Fraser University in Canada. His
Master's thesis was on "Marshall McLuhan and the art of work". The subject of his doctoral thesis was "Online collaborative learning and the training of union staff in developing countries".

Before joining the ILO in 2000 Bélanger worked for the Canadian Union of Public Employees(CUPE). For the first ten years of his career at CUPE he was a communications specialist assigned to support negotiators and local unions during strikes. During the last 15 years he was director of the union's computer department. It was during his time in the computer department that he organized the first local area networkin Canada and created SoliNet - the Solidarity Network. SoliNet, established in 1985, was the first union-owned and operated computer communications system. It was used for the first online labour education courses, including university-credit courses, and international workshops. It spawned a number of important labour projects including the labour news service LabourStart.

In 1995 Bélanger became the first person in Canada to earn a university degree (a Master's in Media Studies) completely via computer communications. Also in 1995 he became a founding director of Canada's Telelearning Network of Centres of Excellence (a national research network concerning distance education via computer communications) funded by the Canadian government.

He has written on labour and technology, labour education, the digital development of African unions and the international labour movement. He teaches courses on computer technology, both residentially and via computer communications, to unionists in developing countries.

Bélanger is the coordinator of the SoliComm (Solidarity Communications) project. SoliComm, which began operating in 2004, is a labour search engine and communications system. Its objective is to make the information on all the union and union-related web sites in the world easy to find and use. The system, which is a project of the Workers' Activities Program at the ILO training centre, also provides free email and educational computer conferencing services for unionists.

He is the manager of the ACTRAV Computer Training (ACT) programme which allows unionists in the developing world to study online and in residential sessions for the International Computer Driving Licence.