ICTs open up radically new ways in which to address the basic challenges of regional development in the Knowledge-Based Society. The transformative potential of ICTs resides, in particular, in the way they enable networking, learning and innovation, and empowerment. A horizontal theme that runs...

In order to explore to what extent existing online taxation services arelikely to meet interest on the part of end users, this chapter uses data from arepresentative population survey caried out in 2005 in nine EU Member States.By applying a so-called Access-Competence-Motivation model, the...

Instead of the home becoming a near-permanent second workplace, weface a situation where much work has become more locationally flexible,and workers settle down temporarily wherever it suits their job, tasks andpersonal preferences best, all the time staying connected to the networksthey need...

This paper analyses key issues towards a research roadmap for eHealth supported patient safety. The raison d'etre for research in this area is the high number of adverse patient events and deaths that could be avoided if better safety and risk management mechanisms were in place. The benefits...

The study is a continuation of the earlier benchmarking exercise for eEurope 2002. It involved two surveys:a head teacher survey of more than 10,000 head teachers to obtain information on the schools and asurvey of more than 20,000 classroom teachers to focus on their use of ICT for educational...

The paper uses the SIBIS database (which stems from population surveys undertaken in 2002/2003 in all current EU25 Member States1 plus the remaining candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Switzerland and the USA) to explore the determinants of eWork uptake at the level of the...

In this paper, we will try to contribute to the establishment of a model of eWork diffusion. Firstly, the paper will review the latest research on telework, and how its findings compare with the hopes and beliefs of futurologists and policy-makers (section 2). Secondly we will suggest how the...