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Now that European Telework Week is over, we would like to know your reaction to continuing Online activities. So why not send us an email (directly from this page) to email and tell us what you thought about European Telework Week 1995. And remember, plans are already under way for European Telework Week 1996.
Across Europe, teleworkers, telecommuters, researchers, businessmen and women, trade unionists, politicians and others have been swapping ideas, experiences and knowledge.
The week has caught the imagination of Europe's media, with special television broadcasts across all 15 member states, in all national languages, being produced by EuroNews, the French-based subscription channel.
We spoke with Jacoma Mazzone, Chief Editor of EuroNews, and asked him why he had decided to run six spots on ETW over a 16 hour broadcast period.
"First, it's of broad interest to our viewers. Teleworking is something which
appeals to many different workers and businesses in all of Europe. So, for us,
it's a natural topic to cover.
Secondly, I happen to believe passionately in teleworking. Euro News itself is
a good example of how a very centralised head office, which we have here in
Ecully, outside Lyon, with all our translators, could adopt teleworking without
too much pain. We could then have our translators working from their home
countries, rather than having to put in long shifts here. I'd quite like to try
it myself!"
EuroNews has carried items on teleworking in the past, but they have tended to be sectional items. Now, Mr Mazzone believes teleworking has managed to raise its profile through the week so far, and he has asked for a regular supply of features and news items from us to update viewers as teleworking broadens its reach.
In the print media, The European's Business Editor Chris Butler wrote an extended news story on the event last week and is planning a highlights report next Thursday.
"The great thing about European Telework Week is that it's addressing exactly
the same challenge we have - to try and find a mix of news, views and interest
for many nationalities. It's exciting just how many events have been organised
and a great opportunity for us to report on a technology which can be of real
business and personal benefit."
Latest News About Telework'95 London
London event goes ahead this Tuesday. Seminar prices cut by up to 40%!
To clear up any confusion about what is happening at the Barbican in London from the Tuesday November 14 until Thursday November16 - The Conference "Tomorrow's Workplace Today'" is running as planned - NO CHANGE The public Exhibition has been cancelled by the organisers.
The seminars are still on but the times have changed - all seminars will now run only in the afternoons and not be repeated in the mornings. There are likely to be places available on most of the sessions for people who turn up without booking but this cannot be guaranteed. There will be a charge for this - there are no free tickets - but it will be at a highly subsidised price. There will also be places for sale on afternoon sessions with a focus on Europe, Japan and the USA which have not been advertised as part of the seminar programme.
Peter Thomson, Organiser, Telework 95 London.
Further details call the information line.+44 1734 623 292 or Internet:
teleworkevents@cix.compulink.co.uk
France:
Internet Access to a First Class BBS in Paris is now open for European Telework
Week. All you need is a First Class client which is available, free of charge,
in the Telework Europa Forum of CompuServe (GO TW EURO, Library 4, TeleTools.
File name is FC.CLIENT) - and, of course, the password:
user id is: demo
password is: demo
It's mostly in French but Alan Husselbee reports there's a fair bit of news in English too and you can try your luck at leaving messages in the forums (but everyone will have the same mailbox (demo). First Class client configuration (it must be recent release after July '95 if you are using your own client) -
Service set-up page:
connection: TCP-IP,FCP
server: 194.2.213.30
zone: leave blank
telephone: leave blank
Click on parameters for 2nd service set-up page, then click on little arrow for
parameters:
TCP buffer setting is: 1000
TCP port setting is: 3004
If you have any problems contact Alan Husselbee, Club de l'Arche at the web server address:
This site contains all French teleworking activities and will be an ongoing site.
Ireland
If you have noticed an uncommonly quiet period of messaging in the TWEURO Forum
of CompuServe, it's because many of the 6,000 plus members are too busy working
on events this weekend!
Among the System Operators, the volunteers who keep the Forum running and have helped many to get started on the teleworking trail, Paddy Moindrot (Wales) and Imogen Bertin (Cork) have joined forces in Dublin for the two-day seminar "Opportunities for Irish Teleworking", which has been organised by the National College for Industrial Relations.
Remember, if you attend any of the many events, we'd like to hear from you, what you discover, what you find good and bad about all or any of the events.
For CompuServe subscribers, send your messages to GO TWEURO, section 11 and for web surfers, http://www.mtanet.co.uk/etw.htm
Europe's first ever Telework Week began earlier this week in Vienna, with the start of a four day conference hosted by the European Commission. Over the next few days, there will be many large and small events in every member state of the EU, ranging from simple Internet messaging to live multi-site videoconferencing debates and national television broadcasts. As the week begins, the UK's biggest telephone company, BT, has published this morning the results of a special survey - covering commuters attitudes to the possibilities of teleworking. Not surprisingly, the majority of people interviewed would like to have the option of teleworking, at least some of the time, and escaping the chore of daily travel to and from the office, factory or other workplace.
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