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Telework and related market requirements
in the context of Europe's Fifth Framework Programme

This and associated pages provide a snapshot of work in hand by the European Telework Development project. The text is subject to continuing revision and/or extension, sections may be incomplete. Some explanatory notes are provided; ETD cannot respond to individual questions about these requirements but welcomes comments as follows:
  • Suggestions for additional requirements not listed here
  • Suggested enhancements or modifications to these requirements
  • Enquiries from qualified organisations interested in leading or joining projects to address one or more of the requirements, either from a wholly commercial or a supported basis (ie within the Fifth Framework Programme or other programmes)
Comments should please be addressed to Horace Mitchell, horace_mitchell@compuserve.com, Programme Director, European Telework Development. ETD does not undertake to respond to all comments.

Inclusion of an item in this list does not imply that it will qualify for a call for proposals in the Fifth Framework Programme; users should read the relevant Commission documents to ascertain the opportunities that will be addressed in the programme.

Currently identified requirements (see page last updated date for currency of this list, see the website (http://www.eto.org.uk/fp5) for most recent version.

  1. technologies and mechanisms to reduce interoperability and other technology adoption, migration and support difficulties for home-based and other individuals who have difficulty in getting adequate technical support locally

  2. task-integrated learning and development facilities for isolated, mobile or unsupported individuals

  3. standardised application-oriented usage reporting from devices and applications

  4. better and cheaper language translation technologies to facilitate work and business relationships across Europe for individuals and small firms

  5. continued improvements in telecommunications price-performance, especially in the delivery of low-cost bandwidth in areas with low concentrations of economic activity and/or population

  6. improved mechanisms for interpersonal and group interactions across networks, including virtual presence (Note 1)

  7. mechanisms for facilitating individuals joining and leaving (widely dispersed) groups/teams (getting quickly up to speed with the group dynamics and knowledge base)

  8. mechanisms for groups to receive and integrate/manage new individuals and leavers gracefully and effectively

  9. competencies management - data acquisition support, data management and maintenance, search, task matching, infrastructures (especially transnational and transcultural infrastructures), intermediation and facilitation

  10. enhanced access methods for information sets, including distributed information sets (Note 2)

  11. self-declarative data/information sets - creation, maintenance, access - for alternative scales and contexts, eg personal, team, enterprise, community, global

  12. enhanced person-centred infrastructures, including intelligence in networks, such that a mobile, multi-location or portfolio working individual can more readily attach and connect using a mix of mobile facilities, local facilities (eg in hotels), distant (home base) facilities and facilities integrated within the network (this applies also to the majority of home-based teleworkers, who work partly at home, partly at one or more offices, and partly while travelling) (Note 3)

  13. contextual analysis and selection of synchronous and asynchronous interaction alternatives

  14. enhanced person-centred interfaces to heterogeneous multimedia communications environments and applications

  15. technologies supporting the use of asynchronous mixed media communications (Note 4)

  16. enhanced methods for screening and prioritising incoming communications (Note 5)

  17. new approaches to optimising the timing of synchronous communications between individuals and among groups

  18. technologies and methods supporting mixed real and virtual presence interactions

  19. environments supporting self-employment and self-employed persons

  20. evironments supporting portfolio working

  21. support to asymmetric relationshionships (eg small-large, employee-enterprise, citizen-government)

  22. person-centred scenarios and requirements assessment

  23. alternative transport/travel demand/opportunity scenarios

  24. methods for supporting asynchronous participation in primarily synchronous communications (meetings), including meetings that are primarily physical (a current example of asynchronous experience of a synchronous meeting is achieved through an archived webcast of the meeting)
  25. alternative participation scenarios for ICT-rich/economically rich and ICT-poor/economically poor communities in the global context.

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