Recent information society policies have been paying much attention to the threat of a "digital divide".The gap between citizens from different socio-economic backgrounds with regard to theiropportunities and abilities to access and use information and communication technologies iscommonly...

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...

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...

This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study,carried out by empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the EuropeanCommission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The dataused for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary...

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