Elsewhere in the Telework Awards, British entries
were rather less successful this year after winning
three awards last year. Both Manchester-based Toucan
Europe and the Periphera consultancy were shortlisted
for work supporting telework development among disadvantaged
people, but the award eventually went to a
Danish local authority.
The magazine All About Working From Home from
Brighton publishers Partridge Publications was also
shortlisted in a third category, that of best contribution
to public awareness of telework, but here again a Danish entry,
TeleDanmark took the award.
Other awards were won by France Telecom, the
Naples city administration and (a third success for Denmark)
the insurance firm Danika. The awards, sponsored by the
European Commission's Information Society directorate-general
(previously DG XIII), were the culmination of this year's
European Telework Week, held in the first week of November.
Peter Johnston of the European Commission congratulated all
the finalists, and told his audience that
nine million Europeans were now engaged in telework-
type new working practices. "This is not something just
for the technological elite," he said.
by Andrew Bibby
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