A teleworking conference for the insurance industry will take place Nov. 3rd and 4th, containing a workshop on the technology for teleworking and teleworkers especially. for the target audience insurance companies run by TA Telearbeit under the umbrella of ETW'97. The whole conference called 'Telearbeit in Versicherungen - personelle, rechtliche, organisatorische und technische Rahmenbedingungen' is organized by Management Circle. Contact details: MCF Management Circle Mrs. Martina Westhäuser Mergenthalerallee 25 D-65760 Eschborn/Ts. Phone: +49-61 96 / 47 22 37 Fax: +49-6196 / 47 22 35 E-Mail: 100634.2044@compuserve.com We want to take the opportunity to introduce ETD in Germany and one of our new telecentres (in Bochum) during the European Telework Awards ceremony to be held in Brussels on November, 7th. Here we expect to have a video-link via one ISDN-Line (we are going to use a PictureTel PCS100 system) to remotely attend the ceremony and to give a short presentation and view into our 'virtual office' in Bochum. We will be available there throughout the whole day. It is possible that a separate open session running in a side room will be arranged so that people can come in and out. Contact details: Telecenter Bochum, Brenscheder Str. 62, D-44799 Bochum Phone: +49-234-97760-0, FAX: +49-234-97760-10 ISDN/H.320 VK: +49-234-9731160 Email: rainer.pollmann@ta-telearbeit.de TA Telearbeit will have an open day on Nov. 10th at its telecentre in Geilenkirchen near Aachen, where we are reachable by video-link too. Video-conferences at that date with other telecentres throughout Europe (e.g. Italy, UK) will be very welcome throughout the whole day. contact details: TA TeleArbeit GmbH ESC Euro-Service-Center Geilenkirchen An Fuerthenrode 52 D-52511 Geilenkirchen Tel.: +49-2451-718-171 FAX : +49-2451-718-179 Videoconference (ISDN, H.320): +49-2451-959530 E-Mail: 101342.1160@compuserve.com URL: http://www.ta-telearbeit.de There will also be a great event on December 4th, where the Initiative 'Telearbeit für den Mittelstand' runs a workshop for the participants of the initiative. It will contain an award ceremony for the best concept presented to introduce telework into an SME. General information about this can be obtained from http://www.iid.de/telearbeit/mittelstand/ It is a federal initiative to support and fund the introduction of telework for SMEs ('Foerderrichtlinie Telearbeit im Mittelstand) and was launched in march 1997 by the same ministry (BMBF) together with the Deutsche Telekom. Its goal is to help up to 5000 SMEs with a total budget of about 10MECU to become teleworking enterprises as soon as possible. |