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...

ICTs radically open up 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...

The experience of recent years has shown that take-up of ICT, for example within strategies toimplement online public services, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progresstowards regional development goals. What is of interest is not ICT use per se, but applications...

The paper investigates the specific challenges created by new online services and delivery methods with regard to the protection of consumers interests. By means of a survey of a representative sample of online consumers in five EU countries, the authors found a high degree of interest in young...

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...

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...

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...

It is a dissertation about “Towards a European Approach for Monitoring eInclusion”. The main points are Measuring access, Internet access, Functional restrictions and Measuring competence.

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...