eWORK 2000 - European Telework Week

New Ways to Work 2000European TeleworkTelework.com 99 - the first French congress dedicated to work and teleactivities.Telework.com '99, a congress with a demonstration area for participants was held at the Palais des Congrès,Porte Maillot in Paris on 4 and 5 November 1999 during the European Telework Week.This event, dedicated to work and teleactivities, was organised jointly by the AFTT (French Association ofTelework and Teleactivities) and by the French subsidiary of the American company E.J. Krause &Associates; it was sponsored by the European Commission and had as an official partner France Telecom andseveral associated partners including, in particular, Andersen Consulting and Sony.The topic of the first day was: Teleactivities: Telework and Teleservices, that of the second: Teleactivities:Net-Economy and Electronic Trade.The conference opening "New Methods of Work for a new Millennium ", presented by Peter Johnston, fromthe European Commission, was simultaneously broadcast by videoconference to an audience of tele-workers inthe Reunion Island. The topics of the conference which followed were:• To make the Teleactivities accessible to al ,• The opening of the Nomadic life, competitiveness factor,• Remote Management,• The Net Economy,• The Digital Currency,• Virtual Banks and security of transactions,• Commercial/Communities Sites of interestsThe text of the majority of these sessions can be consulted on-line on the AFTT web site: www. aftt.net.Three round tables discussed: Technologies in mobile services and remote work, New Organisation and NewWorkplaces and The call centre at the heart of the customer relation; innovative and original experiments inelectronic commerce were presented, and a summary was made on the survey’s results of the Chamber ofCommerce and Industry of Paris on Telework applied to administrative trades.The congress ended with a connection with Brussels, transmitting on line the presentation ceremony of theEuropean Telework Awards, and, on this occasion, Nicole Turbé-Suetens, President of the AFTT, announcedthe creation of the French Telework Awards. These awards were presented in March 2000 in Paris during thenational week Work of the future – Future of work.Telework.com 99 , which was a first in France, welcomed, with its 30 speakers and its 12 show case coordinators,215 congressmen, a number of them coming from the Paris area, but also from elsewhere inFrance, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Italy, as well as about fifteen journalists.The next edition of this event telework.com 2001, still sponsored by the European Commission and coorganisedby the AFTT and E.J. Krause & Associates will take place in Paris in March 2001 jointly with theworld congress of the net-economy "net 2001 ".- 67 -