EUROPEAN TELEWORK AWARDS PRESENTED IN BRUSSELS The 1997 European Telework Awards were presented on November 7 at the Hotel President WTC in Brussels, in the presence of over 130 representatives from the economic, social, political and academic spheres in all member states of the European Union. All finalists presented their cases during the afternoon. The award winners are five organisations that have made the best contributions to telework development in Europe. They were chosen by an expert panel drawn from different EU countries who nominated three finalists in each of five categories, from which they selected the following winners : IBM Belgium-Luxembourg’s Shared Office implementation, the most impressive example of contribution to competitiveness ; the European initiative ISDaC (Information Society Disabilities Challenge) as the most original telework application ; Rijkswaterstaat directorate of North Netherlands for its examplary contribution to sustainability ; Siemens AG / Private Networks of Austria for its wide-ranging technological contribution to teleworking ; the brand new Teleworx magazine of Germany for the best media coverage. The awards are copies of a unique sculpture by Liliane Caumont, a French sculpt-ress currently living in Spain. She has sculpted other awards, one of which was presented to Bill Gates of Microsoft. The European Telework Awards will feature again in ETW '98 to be held in the early part of November 1998. ETW’97 - the 3rd European Telework Week This the first European Telework Award, was organised as part of the European Telework Week that is taking place for the third consecutive year, November 3 to 10. This initiative is supported by the European Commission and the European Telework Development project, with primary sponsorship of Siemens and Toshiba. The ETW European Coordination Office is based in Brussels. It can be reached by phone to +32 2 285 4631 or (GSM) +32 75 683473, fax to +32 2 285 4632, or electronic mail to Ian Culpin, iculpin@martech-intl.com. This is a brief overview of the awards, more deatails will be loaded in the next few days. The presentation material of the award winners. |
