At the European Telework Development Initiative website
ACTS Telework Chain (GAT: General Access - Telework)

GAT Chain Meeting
24 September 1997 - 8.30 am

Venue :
Stockholm City Conference Centre
Norra Latin
Drottninggatan 71 B
S- 111 23 Stockholm

The 6th ACTS Telework (GAT) Chain meeting will take place as planned, on Wednesday 24 September 1997 in Stockholm, hosted by Telework '97, the 4th European Assembly on Telework and New Ways of Working.

This session will be largely devoted to the preparation for the 7th ACTS Concertation Meeting (ACM) of September 30 in Brussels, where ACTS Guidelines will be a major agenda topic.

Following the last GAT Chain meeting in June, three guidelines have been retained for a presentation at the "poster session" during the ACM, as follows :

• GAT-G1 : Telework : Interoperability Guidelines - authored by Horace Mitchell, ETD

• GAT-G3 : On Work, Jobs and Employment in the Information Society - authored by Noel Hodson, DIPLOMAT

• GAT-G5 : Implementation of Telework for Multi-Site Software Development - authored by Francisco Fontes, TECODIS

The texts are available on the eto website at http://www.eto.org.uk/gat/guides/

Two more GAT Guidelines : GAT-G2 (by Deirdre Hunt, DIPLOMAT) and GAT-G4 (by Michel Gironde, EIES) have been initiated and are awaiting further contents input.

AGENDA

08.30 - Coffee

09.00 - Chairman opening remarks - linking to Telework'97

09.10 - Review and approval of minutes of last GAT meeting

09.20 - Update on Telework activities by the Commission

09.30 - Guidelines :

1. summary by the authors/editors
2. presentation and discussion of draft "posters" for ACM
3. "dry run" of the GAT G1 presentation for ACM + discussion

10.50 - Links to ACTS technology projects and other GA Chains

11.00 - Chairman summary of the meeting and Next Steps - Actions to finalise and publish Guidelines: - Distributing the Guidelines to ACTS - Guidelines to Politicians/Executive - Public/Press/Media release to Industry

11.15 - Close formal meeting - Coffee, discussion