2. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 1 Project TELESOL – bringing the best EU telework solutions to CIS countries

3. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 2 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

4. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 3 Project coordinators: UNIDOEDNES, France (Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange)

5. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 4 Project participants - members of business and research communities in the participating countries, with a positive experience in the telework:

6. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 5 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

7. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 6 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

8. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 7 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, …)

9. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 8 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

10. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 9 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)

11. WWDU2002 Germany, May 2002 10 01.07.2002: www.ednes.org/telesol