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...

This report presents the results of the eHealth Benchmarking study carried out by empirica on behalf of the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media. The study aimed to collate and analyse existing eHealth monitoring and benchmarking sources in order to identify best practice in...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

Im politischen Diskurs über die Chancen und Gefahren der Informationsgesellschaft fälltseit geraumer Zeit immer wieder das Schlagwort der digitalen Spaltung oder „DigitalDivide“. Die digitale Spaltung als Metapher fehlender sozialer Inklusion in der Nutzungvon Informations- und...