European Telework Development (ETD)

The ETD Team and Who does What

A ready-reference to participants in the European Telework Development Initiative

This is intended as a ready reference to the people directly involved in managing and delivering the European Telework Development Initiative.

The ETD Central Team

The following people comprise ETD's central team, responsible for overall European and International aspects of the programme.

Jeremy Millard, Project Manager

is directly responsible for project management aspects of the ETD national coordinators' programme (NC tasks, timetable, budget, resources, reporting etc) as well as being overall project manager of ETD, reporting to the European Commission and responsible for project milestones, formal deliverables, resources, budgets etc, all our subcontracts, and generally keeping us all on track. [profile]

Horace Mitchell, Programme Director

is responsible for strategy, direction and development of the ETD Initiative, for how the Initiative is presented and delivered to our target audiences and for relationships between the Initiative and other programmes and organisations. [profile]

Michel Ickx [profile] and Kitty de Bruin, National Activities Coordinators

share the task of support and assistance to the individual ETD national coordinators, each working with a particular group of NCs to help with country status reports, plans, bids for money, getting help from the rest of the project, cross fertilising ideas, solving problems etc.

Nicole Turbé-Suetens

In addition to her role as ETD national coordinator in France, Nicole is a member of the project management team with particular responsibilities for ETD's relationships with and cooperation with suppliers of products and services relevant to telework, teletrade and telecooperation.

Patrizio di Nicola

In addition to his role as ETD national coordinator in Italy, Patrizio is a member of the project management team with particular responsibilities for developing ETD's understanding of and support to the development of telework, teletrade and telecooperation in the Mediterranean region.

David Skyrme, Online and Media Relations Manager

has management and reporting responsibility for our media and online communications, including the web site services and other technology, public media relations, network of contact points, literature etc. [profile] Within David's team:

runs the European Telework Online web site and manages the ETO Site Team, (see below) including the site's support to the European Telework Development Initiative. [profile]

Bjorn Johannson, ETO Technology Services Manager

keeps the ETO online facilities on the road, providing technical management and support to the web site and is the ETD Initiative's day to day contact point with our Technology Services Supplier, Loud-n-Clear.Com.

Freddie Dawkins and Sue Gibbard, Media Contact Points

edit ETD's press releases and media backgrounders and manage ETD's response to information and other request from editors, publishers, journalists and industry commentators

Penny Bridgewater and Wendy Sissins, Online Media Team

handle ETD's main media communications programme, with Penny responsible for planning and targeting, Wendy managing the ETD aspects of the NEWSdesk online services and physical distribution of our "paper" press releases.

Christian Van Asbroeck, ACTS Telework Chain Coordinator

is responsible for ETD's support to other projects within the ACTS programme and provides administrative and secretariat support to the ACTS Telework Chain (Christian is also ETD's national coordinator for Belgium)

Ian Culpin, European Telework Week Manager

is orchestrating ETD's support to European Telework Week (ETW97).

ETD National Coordinators

For each country of the European Union (except Luxembourg which is supported from Belgium), ETD activities are supported through a National Coordinator, usually working in the context of a National Telework or Teleactivities Association. In this list only the names are shown, there is also a page showing their 'phone and fax numbers and a National Page for each country.

Austria - Klaus Rapf
Belgium - Christian Van Asbroek
Denmark - Thomas Frovin Jensen
Central and Eastern European Countries (EEC) - Andy Pieniazek
Finland - Lars Toller
France - Nicole Turbé-Suetens
Germany - Rainer Pollmann
Greece - Marc Bonazountas
Ireland - Imogen Bertin & Chris Hudson
Italy - Patrizio di Nicola
Luxembourg - Christian Van Asbroeck (from Belgium)
Netherlands - Kitty de Bruin
Portugal - Mahamadali Najarali
Spain - Javier Poves
Sweden - Lilian Holloway
United Kingdom - Alan Denbigh

Close Connections

1. The European Commission

Our three main contacts at the European Commission are:

John Nolan

John is the Project Officer for ETD, and responsible for the formal (contractual) relationship between the Commission and ETD as a project within the ACTS programme, linking with Jeremy Millard, ETD Project Manager.

Maarten Botterman

Maarten is seconded to the Commission from the Netherlands Transport Ministry and is DGXIII's telework specialist. Maarten provides a primary Commission input to our focus and direction, especially in the Telework aspects of the ETD Initiative. [profile]

2. The DIPLOMAT Project
(Telework Charter Initiative)

ETD worked with a "sister project", DIPLOMAT, now completed, which developed a European Telework Charter, see their own web pages for details of this. There is a page here at the ETO web site outlining ETD and ETO support facilities provided for the DIPLOMAT initiative. The relationship between the two initiatives was managed by:

Josef Hochgerner

Josef is the DIPLOMAT project manager, working with Jeremy Millard to ensure appropriate coherence in the work of the two programmes.

Noel Hodson

Noel is the DIPLOMAT partner responsible for liaison with ETD, Horace Mitchell is the person in ETD responsible managing ETD's support to DIPLOMAT.

DIPLOMAT partners and national/regional contacts

DIPLOMAT has its own teams of partners and national contacts (listed at the DIPLOMAT web pages).

A draft of the DIPLOMAT Telework Charter is online at:

http://www.telework-forum.org/diplomat/uk/what/what.htm

European Telework Online

European Telework Online (ETO) is an online service for telework, teletrade and telecooperation, working at European and International levels to deliver online information and services on an open to all basis for suppliers and users of the relevant technologies and methods and for policy makers and advisers. ETO is a joint venture of Management Technology Associates and Loud-n-Clear.Com, working with David Skyrme Associates and Carlyle Information Services. ETO provides web site and related services for the ETD Initiative and works closely with ETD to promote understanding and effective use of online methods in telework, teletrade and telecooperation.

These are the current members of the ETO Site Team

NEWSdesk

NEWSdesk is an online service for editors, journalists and commentators, founded by Graeme Radcliffe, and used as their online channel to the media by a large cross section of the leading IT and telecom companies world wide. NEWSdesk has bases in UK, North America and the Far East. If you want to register with NEWSdesk to get access to their site and receive their weekly digest of press releases, email Holly, mentioning your involvement with ETD. Copies of ETD press releases and other support material for the media are also available here at the ETO site. The ETD home pages at NEWSdesk are at http://www.newsdesk.com/english/companie/indcomps/etd/etd.htm.

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ETD Central Team
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