Measuring the spread of telework has been an objective of telework research since it has been appropriated by EU andnation state policy during the 1980s. While a great deal of statistics on the subject have become available from varioussources, a number of questions have not been sufficiently...

In Germany, multi-locational eWork continues to spread against a background of a growing need for more flexible forms of labour deployment. However, the potential of eWork to contribute to better work/life balance and to increasing workforce participation (by women and older people) is not fully...

The dissertation is about what are new work environments, why measure it, what to measure, the challenge, approach chosen, state of the art in research, a framework for benchmarking NWEs and next steps.

Benchmarking has recently achieved a major importance as a support tool for policy-making, inparticular at the EU level and in the context of the Lisbon process. Benchmarking has become acommon tool in policy support, especially in the most innovative policy fields where institutionallearning is...

On January 13 and 14, 2005 a FP7 preparation workshop on technological research in the eInclusion domain was held at the premises of the European Commission in Brussels. A group of experts from various European Member States as well as representatives from the European Commission participated in...

In a recent Communication1, the European Commission has outlined a new strategic framework, i2010 – European Information Society 2010, laying out broad policy orientations in relation to ongoing Information Society developments. The framework promotes an open and competitive digital economy...

The dissertation is about eInclusion and Active Ageing inWork and Employment.

The paper draws upon initial results of the eInclusion@EU project. It presents a conceptual framework for the location and prioritisation of issues in including societal at-risk groups in eService provision. The framework is designed to enable the evidence-based formulation of policy...

Written during the second half of 2004 for debate at the 11th Economic Forum in Krynica,Poland, this report is one of three contributions to the FISTE project which aim to documentand identify research and policy issues to support the achievement of the Lisbon Objectives.These issues result from...

This article proposes a relatively simple indicator, DIDIX, that wasdeveloped in an EU -funded project to benchmark and track national digital divideswithin EU member states. Based on the relative diffusion of computers and theInternet in four disadvantage d socio-demographic groups (compared to...