European Telework Development (ETD)

Who Can Benefit from ETD?

• Suppliers of "Information Society" Products and Services: by helping with understanding of the market and promoting the effective and beneficial use of the technologies; "suppliers" includes the suppliers of added value services such as telecentres and telecottages, www development etcetera, as well as providers of hardware, applications and infrastructure
  
  
• Commercial Enterprises Generally: by improving access to information about the opportunities presented by telework, teletrade and telecooperation, including examples of success and best practice.
  
  
• IT and Telecommunications Managers: who have responsibility for advising their enterprise colleagues and directors on the technologies of telework, teletrade and telecooperation, and supporting the adoption of Information Society methods through the provision of infrastructure and applications.
  
  
• Employers: by providing information and case studies concerning the adoption of good practice for implementing telework programmes and managing teleworkers.
  
  
• The Media: through provision of online press releases and background information.
  
  
• Teleworkers: through access to information and by promoting wider understanding of the telework opportunity among employers and customers for services that can delivered on a telework basis; "teleworkers" includes employees, self-employed, under-employed and unemployed - and their representative organisations.
  
  
• Public Services: by provision of timely information and better access to know how and expertise for those engaged in economic development, employment development, enhanced services for citizens and industrial competitivess.
  
  
• Social Partners: by working closely with those organisation who can accelerate the uptake of telework, teletrade and telecooperation, such as professional associations, trade unions and trade and telework associations.
  
  
• Policy Developers and Policy Makers: by increasing awareness of the policy issues and possibilities and through forums in which the views and needs of interested parties can be made visible; focusing on better "ground rules" for an Information Society
  
  
• Proponents of Sustainable Development: by helping to explore how telework, teletrade and telecooperation can help address problems such as traffic congestion and pollution, environmental damage etc .
  
  
• Developers of future technologies and services: by improving the dialogue between developers and users and making users more clearly aware of what can be expected and when.
  
  
• The Citizen: by provoking a wider and deeper public debate about the meaning and implications of an Information Society and by providing the media with balanced and well informed commentary on issues such as "the future of work".
  
  
• Non-EU Countries: by involving relevant people and organisations in the "Wider Europe" and other world economies, especially relating to the emerging Global Networked Economy