The dissertation is about Compound Indicators, DIDIX, Regional divide, Digital Divide, eInclusion of older Europeans and the Riga Index. It is a Workshop towards a European Approach for Monitoring eInclusion.

The last years have seen a change in attitude towards new ways of working and their role inthe modernisation of organisations. Until a few years ago, balancing employees’ interestswith those of business has often been the spur for introducing eWork in German companies.The opportunity to...

There is a broad consensus today that increasing practice and intensity of lifelong learning has become a key requirement for Europe if it wants to remain economically competitive as well as socially inclusive. In this context much attention has focused on the ability of ICTs to improve the...

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...

The paper deals with these questions based on research undertaken in the context of mainly twoprojects:Ÿ BISER1, a recently finished research project supported by the European Commission’s ISTProgramme which developed and piloted indicators for measuring Information Societydevelopments at the...

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...

Multi-locational work, supported by information and communication technologies (ICTs), represents one key element of the current shift in the organisation of the labour process. Work which takes place at non-traditional work settings, and being enabled by increasingly mobile ICTs, is becoming...