2nd European Telework Week set for November 4th - 11th 1996


Telework is high on the agenda in discussions about Europe and the Information Society. The issues range from social questions raised by the prospect of many more people working at home, to the competitiveness of European industries and the questions of where and how the new jobs of the Information Society are being created. The scope of debate is wide, from practical matters such as health and safety at the "home workplace", to strategic opportunities, such as the possibility of reducing traffic congestion and pollution through telecommunication - transportation trade offs.

The first European Telework Week - November 1995 - saw over 30 registered events across Europe. The activities ranged from key international events in Austria (ACTS/National Hosts Conference: "A Day in the Information Society"); Rome (2nd European Assembly on Telework and "New Ways to Work") and London ("Tomorrow's Workplace") to grass roots "open days" at telecottages and telecentres in both cities and villages. ETW '95 attracted coverage by the press, radio and television.

The 2nd European Telework Week, 4-11 November 1996 - will build on last year's success to achieve even wider public attention. Events and activities pioneered in1995 will act as role models for ETW '96. Organisations in every part of Europe have already indicated their support to international, regional, nationaland local events and activities. With European Commissioner Martin Bangemann accepting the role of "patron" for European Telework Week, there's no doubt that the European Commission's most senior executives are putting their full support behind the many telematics/teleworking initiatives across Europe.

ETW '96 provides opportunities for everyone who has an interest in telework - employers, teleworkers, unions, suppliers of telework technologies and services, policy makers and environmentalists. If you want to support European Telework Week by organising your own event, joining or sponsoring other activities, helping us reach more people - or simply by keeping in touch and participating, register an interest now - you can do this at: Three major events: The three events will be interconnected through videolinks.

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The latest information and contacts regarding European Telework Week can be found online:

Vienna Event

The European Assembly has become the major platform for debates on telework in Europe. Further to the debates in Berlin (1993) and Rome (1994) the main topics this year will be: Getting people to work; Training for the Information Society and Working towards Substainability. The main players in these areas will be invited to come to the City Hall in Vienna and meet with politicians, union representatives, scientists, industrialists and telework experts and practitioners.

Further information:

Vienna - BCO conference secretariat
Tel: +43 1 589 25 114. Fax: +43 1 586 7127
Email: austropa@oevb.co.at
WWW: http://www.bco.at/bco/tw96

London Event

The London conference will be held from November 6th to 8th at the new Britannia International Hotel, in Docklands. It will continue the theme, successfully started last year, of telework as a business benefit and will also look at the wider social and environmental issues.There will be over 40 speakers over three days with a choice of different streams focusing on People, IT and Property. Key speakers will include leading world authorities on the subject, business leaders, experts and managers of teleworkers. There will also be demonstrations of video conferencing and other technologies.

Further information:

Tel: +44 1734 623 292
Fax: +44 1734 622 230
Email: teleworkevents@cix.compulink.co.uk
WWW: http:// www.compulink.co.uk/~awsl/tele96uk.htm

Bonn Event

The Bonn conference and exhibition - Telework Deutschland 96 - will be held from November 6th to 7th at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza hotel, starting with a reception of the Lord Mayor of the City of Bonn in the Old Town Hall on the evening of 5th November. The conference, subtitled "New Ways to Work and Employment" will focus on different models of telework in a huge variety of application areas, of how telework creates and maintains work and employment, success stories in telework and also the problems and pitfalls of telework implementation in organisations and ways forward to tackle these.

Further information:

Werner B. Korte
Tel: +49 228 98 53 00
Fax: +49 228 985 30 12
Internet: http://www.bonn-service.de/empirica
Email: werner.korte@empirica.de

Some of the organisations contributing to this year's European Telework Week are:

3Com, Alcatel, IBM, CAP Volmac, Compaq, Canon, Digital, ICL, Netscape, Microsoft, Toshiba, Mercury Communications, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Austrian Ministry for Public Economy & Transport, The Netherlands Ministry of Transport, City of Vienna and City of Bonn, European Community Teleworking Forum, European Trade Union Confederation, Global Office Network, Regus International Office Centres, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, TeleDenmark Consult, Royal PTT Netherlands, Telework Associations in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden.

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