Proceedings of 8th European Assembly on telework (Telework2001)

141Aim <strong>of</strong> project Today Decide I http://tom.riik.ee/ is to rise level involvement ordinary people instate decision-making processes. It is possible to make legal acts proposals and other ideas. Openforum enables comment materials and government proposals in draft version.Mobile Positioning SystemRegio Ltd. http://www.regio.ee/ participates in the team to create the first Mobile PositioningSystem (MPS) service for society (May 2000) in the world. Estonian Mobile Telephone (EMT),Ericsson and Estonian Rescue Board started the pilot project to determine the location <strong>of</strong> thecallers who have dialled the emergency number 112. The service is accessible to all clients <strong>of</strong>EMT regardless <strong>of</strong> the brand <strong>of</strong> phones or GSM cards. Regio has started development <strong>of</strong> number<strong>of</strong> commercial applications for the MPS, such as WWW logistics server.ConclusionDespite <strong>of</strong> success it is worth to mention, that we in Estonia faced same problems as other countriesin Europe, so it seems to be same level <strong>of</strong> development. It is not question <strong>of</strong> buying technologiesbut implementing new technologies in organizational level. It is not so easy to switch on telework.Current organization <strong>of</strong> work/learning is not suitable for Web-learning/teaching, new technologiesdemand time and new methodology, leaders and administrations have not realize that yet, and thatis why content is not developed sufficiently. For example, there are lot <strong>of</strong> ideas and virtual <strong>of</strong>ficesproducts on the market, but all technologies available need much tailoring to meet actual businessneeds <strong>of</strong> enterprises. Additional necessary investments should made. Internet and Web are likeordinary infrastructure systems, they need investments in corporate level, technical maintenance,security measures implementation.Let us note that the development <strong>of</strong> e-business culture and e-work culture based on new technologyrequires more time than is usually expected. The intellectual capital and pr<strong>of</strong>essional staff are thekey factors in the further development. Work is not where to go but what to do. But not only infuture, it have been always so. Development <strong>of</strong> new ways to work should be evolutionary process,in what Estonia has role to play.