eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkTeleactivity. A generic term, not widely used, to include all types of teleactivity that are part of telework, teletrade ortelecooperation. Examples of teleactivities are teleshopping, telebanking, telemedicine etc.TWI - Telework Ireland, the Professional Association of Teleworkers in IrelandUMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System). An emerging cellular standard that supports speeds up to 2Mbps, and designed as a successor to GSM. Its name is slightly misleading in that one of its aims to provide seamlessservices to users across both fixed and mobile networks.Videoconferencing. The use of camera (with microphone) and monitor to allow visual communications over a highspeedcommunications link (typically 1Mbps or higher) instead of proximity face-to-face communications.Virtual Organisation. An organisation of various independent members that operates cooperatively (and may havebeen created) without the constraints of space and/or time.Virtual Communities. Communities that have been developed around an area of common interest, and use onlinetechniques to sustain themselves.Virtual Teams, Virtual Teaming. The concepts of virtual working applied to a work team. Members of the teamwork at different locations and use telecooperation methods to progress their joint work.Webcasting. Broadcasting live video and audio data over the Internet. For example, speeches and talking heads fromconferences can be received by Internet users over the ordinary telephone network in real time.WWW (World Wide Web). The collection of HTML pages that reside on Web servers across the world. It isestimated that there are over 100 million publicly accessible WWW pages on the Internet, a number that has beenmore than doubling every year.- 204 -