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...

Engaging the entire EU population in lifelong learning has emerged as akey policy goal in recent years. While it is clear that ICT-enabled eLearning cancontribute considerably to reaching this objective, much of the public debate aboutthe issue has failed to explore whether the advantages of...

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...

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 presentation describes the project BISER in 28 selected regions in Europe.

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...

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht beschäftigt sich mit dem eHealth Benchmarking in Europa. Dabei wird insbesondere auf einige vorläufige Ergebnisse und dem Blick nach vorn eingegangen.

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...