Project TELESOL – bringing the best EU telework solutions to CIS countries WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Goals of the project: to create awareness of the telework advantages in the business and research communities; to study the experience and best practices of telework in the EU countries; to identify local telework problems; to create new EU-CIS contacts in the telework area; to start new business telework projects WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Project coordinators: UNIDO EDNES, France (Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange) WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Project participants - members of business and research communities in the participating countries, with a positive experience in the telework: WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
To identify (EU) teleworking tools, which can be used in CIS telework: documentation and project support tools; network (VPN) tools; printing tools; … To identify (EU) methodologies in telework, which can be used in CIS telework To bring these tools and methodologies to CIS countries WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Central Asia: distributed offices Offshore programming telework in Russia: 150M euro, 20-40% annual growth Offshore programming telework in Ukraine: 45M euro, 80-100% annual growth Central Asia: distributed offices WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Aspects of telework which are to be covered in the project TELESOL: state of communications, technical development, necessary hardware/software… legal, financial, fiscal issues, cultural diversity; management of the synchronous work, quality control, certification, telework personnel development; distributed office as a telework within one company; tele-services (tele-medicine, tele-education, …) WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Expected results of the project TELESOL: better understanding of the local telework problems; telework competence centers as the focal points for addressing telework issues; new contacts and new telework projects WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
Project events: - kick-off meeting (Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan, June 2002); - project workshop (Erevan, Armenia, November 2002); - project workshop (Kiev, Ukraine, spring 2004); - Central Asian telework conference (Almaty, Kazakhstan, autumn 2004) WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002
01.07.2002: www.ednes.org/telesol WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002