European
Telework Awards 1999:
Short-listed Nominees
On September 25th at the Telework’99
European Assembly on Telework in Aarhus ,Denmark, an entry of 26 nominations
from 10 European countries was reduced to a short-list of 17 candidates
for the European telework awards. Below is a brief description of each
of the nominated projects.
Best Example in Large Organization:
France Telecom “PC Nomade”
An A to Z turnkey solution for Corporate Business
sales force teleworkers in France Telecom (France)
Solution for nomadic teleworkers,
already used by France Telecom salesmen from the Corporate Products and
Services Division (target 800 people). This solution has been packaged
as an A to Z solution, including training (tutorials) for teleworkers
and managers.
Contact: Jacques
Lagorce
France Telecom
Branche Developement,
Direction de l’Innovation
6 place d’Alleray (Périsud), 75505 Paris cedex 15, France
Tel : +33.1.44.44.62.22
Fax : +33.1.46.55.40.85
web-site: http://www.francetelecom.com/vangl/b/b6/TW/index.html
e-mail mailto :
jacques.lagorce@francetelecom.fr
Teleworking in Danica (Denmark)
Implementation of telework in a Danish Insurance Company.
In parallel with the introduction of telework, the organization and business
processes were and will continue to be changed. Initially 150 out of 250
agents have chosen to work from home.
http://www.danica.dk
Contact:
Hubert Jensen,
Parallelvej 17, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark.
Tel:+45.45.23.23.23
mailto:HU.J@Danica.dk
The Swedish National Energy Administration
(Sweden)
Implementation of telework in the
Swedish National Energy Administration after its move to a new location
(120 out of 166 employees are teleworking).
http://www.stem.se/english
Contact:
Mrs Anne Andersson,
Kungsgatan 43, Eskilstuna, Sweden
Tel: +46.16.544.20.23
Best Example in SME:
IT Norrbotten (Sweden)
Contact:
Tomas Wallbing,
IT Norrbotten,
Skapa Företagsby, Teknivägen 3-13, S-961 50 Boden, Sweden,
tel: + 46.921.570.95
mailto:
tomas.wallbing@itnorrbotten.se
Ali Spa (Italy)
The temporary job agency is offering
teleworkers to all enterprises that look for professionals to develop
work at distance.
http://www.alispa.it/
Contact:
mailto: lbarattelli@alispa.it
Telework facilitation Service for the Western
Isles of Scotland (UK)
Work-global.com is a teleworking
facilitation arm of the Western Isles ICT Advisory Service. The main beneficiaries
are the local SME’s and people who are being helped into employment through
work-global.com
http://www.work-global.com/
Contact:
The Western Isles ICT Advisory Service
Pairc House, Habost, Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Scotland HS2 9QB,
Tel: +44.1851.880225
Fax:+44.1851.880386
mailto:donnie@sol.co.uk
Best supporting Public Initiative:
Teleskop (Germany)
Teleskop is providing
a Public Information Service for SME’s interested in Telework. Teleskop
(an ADAPT project) tackles the difficulties behind introducing telework from
the point of view of providing the decision makers in SMEs with the knowledge
necessary to make a qualified decision about the implementation of telework.
It provides training units for managers and employees but also valuable
information thanks to the project website: http://www.teleskop.de/
Contact:
Anne Wegner,
Institut Der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln,
TELESKOP,
Postfach 51 06 69, 50942 Köln, Germany
Tel: 0221.3.76.55.34
Fax: 0221.3.76.55-54
mailto:wegner@iwkoeln.de
TeletreBages
The main aim of the project is to introduce telework
in the Bages County. To achieve this goal, the project counts with the
participation of public and private entities. Two major studies have been
elaborated, one focused on the competence of teleworkers, and, the other
focused on the possibilities of telework in the companies of Bages. Those
studies have helped to design of the training (courses and CD-Rom) and
advisory activities. The project have also carried out diffusion activities
(exhibitions, conferences and seminars) as well as innovative activities
such as virtual markets.
http://www.bages.org
Contact:
Albert Giralt
Consell Comarcal Del Bages
Muralla de Sant Domenec, 24, E-08240 Manresa, Spain
mailto:
consell@ccbages.org
Comune di Napoli
(Italy)
The “ Telework and Local Development »
project was submitted by the Municipality of Naples within the framework
of the ADAPT Community Initiative. The project aims to anticipate the
organization and production changes. It also aims to respond to the needs
for training and new professional skills related to the introduction of
telework. The project is based upon 3 major components: research to design
the model, training and implementation (experimentation) along with a
widespread dissemination of the results.
http://comune.napoli.it/telelavoro/intro.htm
Contact:
Salvatore DI MAIO
mailto:sereuropa@comune.napoli.it
Best Initiative supporting disadvantaged:
Online (UK)
The project enables independent
access by disabled people to the information and support they need in
relation to training and employment opportunities in a variety of places.
The project has collated existing information and learning resources in
order to make them more widely accessible to the individuals and organizations
that may wish to use them as a resource using information and communication
technologies. This is underpinned by providing training programmes and
qualifications for disabled individuals.
http://www.on-line.org.uk/
Contact:
Alex McDonald
Toucan Europe,
Tanzaro House, Ardwick Green North, Manchester M12 6FZ, UK
Tel/Fax: +44.161.273.5122
mailto:info@on-line.org.uk
Naestved (Denmark)
The Project New Pathways”” is a
project that via Open Data Centres is offering admittance to distance
learning courses primarily to socially excluded citizens. This includes
persons who are without work and must be activated, persons who must be
rehabilitated and early-retired pensioners who via the information and
communication technology can find new possibilities to re-enter the Labour
market.
http://www.naestved-datastuer.dk/
Contact:
Leif Henriksen
Radmandshaven 20, DK-4700 Naestved, Denmark
Tel: +45.55.78.49.01
mailto:lhenriksen@naeskom.dk
mailto:lh@naestved-datastuer.dk
Periphera (UK)
The PERIPHERA approach shows that Telework
can be the basis of re-entry to social and economic life for many groups
marginalised by Geographic location, by Ethnic origin, or by Disability.
Contact
Frank Wilson
Interaction Design Ltd
13 Stonehills House
Welwyn Garden City
HERTS AL8 6NH
UK
Email : 100306.3174@compuserve.com
web-site http://www.periphera.org/
Tel: +44 1707 338 751
Best Contribution to Public Awareness:
Tele Danmark (Denmark)
The main idea behind the campaign
has been to promote awareness and understanding of the many benefits a
modern enterprise can obtain by developing a strategy for telework and
flexible work.
http://www.tdu.dk/telework99
Contact:
Eva Bjerrum
Tele Danmark Development
Sletvej 30, 8361 Tranbjerg J.,Denmark
Tel: +45.70.12.70.12
mailto:evbj@tdk.dk
All about working from Home
(UK)
Launched in the UK by Partridge
Publications in July 1998, the monthly, magazine “All About Working From
Home” has firmly established itself as the Homeworkers’window on the World.
The aim of the editorial team is to inspire, inform and support the millions
of people in the UK already working from home and those aspiring to this
particular workstyle.
Contact:
Jeff James
Avenue Lodge, 60 East Street , Brighton BN1 1HN, UK
Tel: 01.273.71.99.00
Fax: 01.273.71.99.11
mailto:Jeff@partridgelimited.demon.co.uk
Study of the traffic reduction (Netherlands)
Inspired by the ICT policy document
by the Ministry of Economics Affairs, Media Plaza came up with the idea
of linking the emancipation of the electronic highway with the solution
of social problems, one of which is traffic jams. This problem could be
tackled with the help of teleworking. The aim of the traffic reduction
plan is to get 10,000 people presently commuting between Amsterdam, Utrecht
and The Hague by car to work at home during rush hour in exchange for
a fast Internet connection and multimedia PC.
http://www.telewerkforum.nl/
Contact:
Telewerk Forum
Stichting Nederlands Telewerk Forum
Postbus 623, 3440 AP Woerden, The Netherlands
Tel: 0348.49.36.50
Fax: 0348.48.22.88
mailto:
info@telewerkforum.nl
Best supporting Technology or Service:
MITEL (UK)
MITEL is a global designer, manufacturer
and marketer of networked systems for the communications industry.
MITEL’s Teleworking communications solutions enable organizations to integrate
Teleworkers into existing investments in head office infrastructure, and
have access to, and use of, all of the computer and telephony functionality
of the corporate office.
http://www.mitel.com/
Contact:
MITEL Telecom plc
Mitel Business Park,
Portskewett, Monmouthshire NP6YR, UK
Tel: 0870.909.8888
Fax: 0870.909.4040
A telework trial using ADSL
(France Telecom)
This project describes a trial of
telework using ADSL technology associated to phone over IP, co-operative
work, and videoconference then CAD activities and web sites management
became possible from home with the use of this technology.
Contact :
Jacques Lagorce
France Telecom
Branche Developement,
Direction de l’Innovation
6 place d’Alleray (Périsud), F-75505 Paris cedex 15, France
Tel : +33.1.44.44.62.22
Fax : +33.1.46.55.40.85
web-site http://www.francetelecom.com/vangl/b/b6/TW/index.html
mailto :
jacques.lagorce@francetelecom.fr
Boogie: Teleworking
at France Telecom (France)
The project explains how are used solutions called
Boogie like videoconferencing, video on demand, synchronous cooperative
tools, remote groupware tools and data bases (Espace Coopératif) for virtual
teams. In average, France Telecom through Boogie is having 1400
to 1600 sessions of video-on-demand per month and 2500 people are using
the Espace Coopératif on an everyday basis.
Contact:
Jacques Lagorce
France Telecom
Branche Developement,
Direction de l’Innovation
6 place d’Alleray (Périsud), F-75505 Paris cedex 15, France
Tel : +33.1.44.44.62.22
Fax : +33.1.46.55.40.85
web site http://www.francetelecom.com/vangl/b/b6/TW/index.html
mailto :
jacques.lagorce@francetelecom.fr
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