1996 - European Telework Week

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Telework 96 2.4.7. Telework and the Information Society Telework is a key component of the Information Society. It offers new employment opportunities, especially for the disadvantaged regions of Europe. It is also important as an instrument for European competitiveness, though the potential competitive advantage will not be realised until the obstacles to growth of teleworking have been removed . Possible measures for stimulation include the following: • Teleworking and telework experiments should be promoted by awareness-raising • campaigns by Member States, such as through, • direct assistance measures providing targeted financial support • indirect measures to help firms implement projects • support for Telecentres and teleports in development areas. Telework is a key component of the Information Society. It offers new employment opportunities, especially for the disadvantaged regions of Europe. It is also important as an instrument for European competitiveness. Initiatives could be taken by the EU, to co-ordinate these measures, and there needs to be an organisation to support telework development at European level. Such stimulation, accompanied by legislative and taxation initiatives, are needed to optimise transborder teleworking projects, and to raise awareness of communications facilities and their enormous potential for transborder telework. - 42 -
Telework 96 2.5. Telework and Small Business Networking 2.5.1. Introduction Small and medium sized businesses are now widely recognised as holding the key to future economic growth: that growth will only come through if the SMEs make maximum use of the potential offered by telematics and if they make that use at the earliest possible time. This report summarises the outcomes of six projects undertaking RTD and demonstrations concerned with small business networking in the context of telework. A brief combined summary might run the risk of seeming to trivialise individual projects, so more details of each of the six projects (EBNET, EVONET, RECITE, RITE, SBN and TESSE) are appended individually. In total, the six projects made a significant contribution to the understanding of SME networking as a practical activity, both in terms of facilitating increased activity, and also of making the benefits flow to SMEs, to regions and to the EC generally. Two projects (EBNET and TESSE) dealt with the international networking of SMEs in the generic sense: both developed activities in mentoring and netware brokerage, and each considered conceptual frameworks for the subject, EBNET developing quantitative measurement techniques (i.e. addressing the question “how much” for networking) and TESSE in terms of value chain analysis (a topic also looked at elsewhere by the ACCORDE project). EBNET produced important outcomes in distinguishing the characteristics of micro-SMEs (>10 individuals), and TESSE demonstrated how individuality may be accommodated in networking. Two further projects (SBN and RITE) considered the relevance of inter-networking for SMEs, and specifically of Internet usage and maximise the potential value of its use as a business tool. SBN surveyed this subject against the background of EDI and the use of Value Added Networks; RITE established a regional Internet server network both as a means of supply and as a means of structuring access to information for those from outside a region. SBN showed how “soft-EDI” could benefit SMEs, while RITE gave clear indications to SMEs and to regions on ways of increasing their marketing weight. Finally, two projects concerned themselves with appropriate technologies and technology implementations for SMEs; EVONET considered what products were available in the market for networking SMEs, and especially for individual mobile professionals, creating solutions for existing products and also designing anew; and RECITE applied existing technologies in harsh real-world environments showing how to gain real value from innovative applications of existing products. EVONET created innovative and successful techniques based on computer linked voice telephony; RECITE showed particularly exciting potential for the combination of GSM data and notebook Pcs. - 43 -
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