eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

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New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkSwedenSeminar/work-shop at the Swedish Transport and Communication Research BoardThe topic of the workshop held in Stockholm on Tuesday November 2 was the impact of teleworking and newways of organising work on transport and the environment. It was organised by the Swedish Transport andCommunication Research Board, which runs a fund to finance research into transport and communications. Itscurrent key areas for research are decision tools for traffic policies, traffic security and the consequences ofICTs on society.Organisations represented at the workshop were Stockholm University, University of Linköping, University ofLund, University of Gothenburg, Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communication, SwedishEnvironmental Protection Agency and Swedish Institute for Transport and Communication Analysis.Inauguration of Herrgården at Masugnen, a Telework and Telelearning centre in LindesbergLindesberg is a small town with a successful telework strategy. The telecentre provides a base for about 50people working in training and tele-learning and thirty others engaged in research and development issues.Among the latter are the staff of Kopernicus Interactive AB, an enterprise which develops multimedia productsand teaching media for distance training, a 5 person research group from the National Institute for WorkingLife, and representatives of the University of Örebro.On Tuesday November 9, the inauguration took place of a new building which considerably expands thepremises of the centre and allows a adoption of new activities. Among the speakers at the event were the headof the University of Õrebro, the head of the Masugnen training centre, the head of the local community andtelework consultant Walter PaavonenWorkshop on Regional and Local Telework strategies, Ronneby, SwedenThis one-day workshop, held on November 17, was aimed at discussing how to take advantage of teleworkingand new ways of organising work in a regional context. The province of Blekinge in southern Sweden has formany years focused its activities on ICT-related businesses and has successfully built up an appropriateinfrastructure for high level education and distance independent businesses. The region today is home to one ofthe most successful Swedish mobile phone operators, Europolitan, and opinion poll companies Sifo and Gallupalso operate from Blekinge.Media interest in SwedenOctober: An 8 page supplement on Teleworking appeared in the October issue of the SAS Magazine. Thearticles (one of which explicitly mentioned the forthcoming European Telework Week) addressed theincreased productivity achieved by teleworking and discussed how to avoid drawbacks such as isolation. Oneof the articles was about a telework arrangement in Swedish Lapland where a female teleworker is takingdirectory enquiries from her home in a small village with only 6 inhabitants. Her regular workplace is 310kilometres away. From her remote workplace she has access to phone numbers to 550 million subscribers in260 different countries.October 13, 1999: A half page article about Teleworking was pubished in Computer Sweden. In it JonRognes, a researcher at Stockholm Business School, argues that home based teleworking is decreasing inSweden, while there is increase in mobile working. On November 2, 1999: A short article aboutTeleworking appeared in Metro, a free-of-charge daily newspaper distributed to train and metro commuters inthe Stockholm area. On November 10, 1999: A front page article and additional half page was published in- 158 -
New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkBergslagsposten, a Swedish regional daily newspaper. The article was about the in inauguration ofHerrgården at Masugnen Learning. On November 11, 1999: A half page article about remote businesssupport and call centre services was published in Dagens Nyheter, a major Swedish daily newspaper.FinlandPreparatory work-shop for a spearhead project, Levi, Lapland.Finland has a national strategy is to be a forerunner in the construction of an Information Society based onhumane and sustainable development, and to support this vision a national plan Quality of life, Knowledgeand Competitiveness has been produced. This document addresses several areas: Culture, Knowledgeproducts and services, Development of electronic commerce, Personal navigation, The learning environmentof knowledge networks, Knowledge based work, Business networking and telework and Local InformationSociety. The initiative is funded by Finnish National Fund for Research and Development.The Levi workshop, held from November 4 th – 6 th , was aimed at drafting a structure and co-ordinatingmechanism for the area of Business networking and telework. About 40 people participated in the workshopand among organisations represented were the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development, theMinistry of Labour, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of the Interior, Helsinki University ofTechnology, University of Lapland, University of Tampere, Technical Research Centre of Finland, ICL DataOY, Siemens OY, Sonera OY and several regional development bodies and telecoms companies.Media interest in FinlandOn October 1999: A 9 page article on the Information Society and teleworking appeared in Kuntalehti17/99, a Finnish magazine addressed to local administrations. On October 17, 1999: A one and a half pagearticle about telework was published in Savon Sanomat which is a rural edition of Helsingin Sanomat, amajor Finnish daily newspaper. On October 22, 1999: “Työ tuli tekijänsä luokse”, an 8 pager article abouttelework and quality of life appeared in Suomen Kuvalehti, a major Finnish weekly magazine, and onNovember 1 – 10, 1999: At least 3 regional radio programmes in Finland discussed teleworking.ItalyTelework 2005: Italian Telework Association meeting, RomeEuropean Telework Week began in Italy with the second reunion, in Rome on Tuesday November 2 nd , of theSocietà italiana telelavoro, SIT (www.societaitalianatelelavoro.it). This occasion provided an opportunity topresent some early findings from research undertaken to assess the development of telework in Italy in theyears up to 2005.Italian Telework AwardsAs well as participation in the European Telework Awards, this year companies and organisations in Italy alsohad the opportunity for their contribution to telework development to be recognised in the country’s ownTelework Awards. The Awards ceremony took place in the Hotel Excelsior in Rome on WednesdayNovember 3 rd , at a ceremony jointly organised and hosted by Telecom Italia and ETD Italia (the Italianpartners of the European Telework Development project).Workshop on telework in public administrations, Trento- 159 -
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