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This is the seventh occasional newsletter
from Analytica, distributed in March 2002. If you would like to subscribe
to future issues, press the 'subscribe' button above. CONFERENCESBRUSSELS IN APRILFollowing the successful conference organised by the EMERGENCE project in Budapest in October 2000 ('Where in the World? E-work Location in a Digital Global Economy' - papers on http://www.emergence.nu/events/oct.html ) the project is organising a further conference to be held in Brussels on April 16-17. The conference is called 'The World, the Workplace and We theworkers: eWork in a global world'. Keynote speakers include academics (eg Saskia Sassen, Penny Gurstein and Luc Soete) as well as a range of policy-makers from around the world, and an interesting range of papers have been submitted for the three parallel streams which will focus on global issues ('the world') issues of workplace organisation and management ('the workplace') and the impacts of globalisation and remote working on individual workers ('We, the workers') For more information and registration details, visit http://www.emergence.nu/events/wwwe.html PERTH IN SEPTEMBERFor people who are seriously interested in international research collaboration, the Australian European Network - Utrecht Network ResearchRound Table are organising a workshop in Western Australia on September 16-17. The research themes will be Information Technology in Education and Information Technology in Governance and Business.If you are a European researcher looking for Australian partners or vice versa , and would be interested in attending, you can submit a paper not exceeding 15 pages with a brief abstract (ca. 150 words) in Times New Roman 12 to m.ilich@ecu.edu.au by 30 April 2002 BANGKOK IN DECEMBERAn international Conference On Globalization, Innovation and Human Resource Development For Competitive Advantage, will be held in Bangkok from 17 to 19 December 2002, organised by AIT (the Asia Institute of Technology) and a panel of researchers from around the world. The conference will include a day organised by the Asian EMERGENCE project focusing on eWork and globalisation. Further details fromhttp://www.som.ait.ac.th/cere/conference/SOMCall_for_Papers_comp.doc MORE PUBLICATIONS FROM EMERGENCEThe EMERGENCE project continues to publish its results. Since the last newsletter, we have publishedStatistical Indicators of eWork, a discussion paper by Ursula Huws Currently in press are: Jobs on the move: European Case Studies in Relocating eWork by Joerg Flecker and Sabine Kirschenhofer of FORBA, the Austrian EMERGENCE partners. This is a synthesis of the results of 62 case studies in Europe of telemediated remote work each involving a 'source' in one country or region and a 'destination' in another. The choice of case studies reflects the results of the EMERGENCE 18-country employer survey and the results illustrate a complex picture which demonstrates that such relocations cannot be simply analysed in terms of jobs lost at one location and gained at another. Modelling eWork in Europe: Estimates, Models and Forecasts from the EMERGENCE Project by Peter Bates and Ursula Huws includes estimates of the numbers of employees and self-employed people currently working fully or partially from their homes or from multiple locations and forecasts up to 2010. Also forthcoming are reports on eWork in Denmark and eWork in Ireland drawing together the results from the Employer survey relating to these countries with results from supplementary surveys (using the same methodology) of small firms in the knowledge sector. Further details from http://www.emergence.nu NEW PROJECTSAsian EMERGENCEEMERGENCE continues to give birth to new progeny and Asian EMERGENCE is about to be launched, in collaboration with Edith Cowan University in Australia, AIT in Thailand, the Indian Institute of Management in India and FORBA in Austria as well as IES (the Institute for Employment Studies) in the UK. The work will involve further case studies in ten Asian countries which will be carried out by local researchers, with complementary studies in Europe where these involve a European 'source' or 'destination'. Further details will be announced shortly on the EMERGENCE website -http://www.emergence.nu . To be put on the mailing list to be kept informed of developments, please register your details on this site. STILEAlready up and running is STILE, a project focusing on statistical indicators of eWork and led by HIVA, based at the University of Leuven in Belgium, in which IES are the UK partners. Further details from http://www.stile.beRESPECTDue to start in April 2002 is RESPECT, a project we are leading through IES, with research partners in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. RESPECT will draw up voluntary professional and ethical guidelines for the conduct of technology-related socio-economic research, with workpackages on intellectual property, data protection, research ethics and professional benchmarking. It will also produce a database of professional and regulatory bodies so that users know where to direct their complaints if they think researchers are in breach of national or international laws or codes of practice. Website to be announced.JANUSAnother project due to start in April is JANUS, in which Analytica is the UK partner. JANUS brings together people involved in a number of different socio-economic research projects funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme with the aim of synthesising and disseminating the results both within the Commission and to the external research and policy communities. Website to be announcedMORE INTERESTING RESEARCH ON TELEWORKTELEWORK AND DISABILITYThe Canadian Centre on Disability Studies has recently completed a study of Canadians with disabilities working at home. A summary of the findings of the research has been posted on http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/teleworkes.htmThey have also produced an excellent Best Practices Handbook which can be found in PDF on http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/bestpractices.pdf and in HTML form on http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/teleworkbp.htm TELEWORK AND FAMILY LIFEThe excellent Famitel project (not to be confused with the similarly named FAMILIES project which has remarkably similar aims and much more extravagant funding) has produced some very interesting results, some of which will bepresented at the abovementioned WWWe conference. The project used an interdisciplinary approach, involving architects, psychologists and a sociologists from several different sub-disciplines, including time budget analysis, to develop multifaceted research instruments for analysing the impact of telework on family life. Echoing some of the results of the late Nicola Armstrong's work in New Zealand they found striking differences between the teleworkers' own perceptions and those of other household members. Further information can be obtained by emailing Helen Hootsmans on HelenHootsmans@compuserve.com CLERIHEWSA couple of years ago whilst travelling in India I received an email from a friend in Canada asking me what I knew about the origins of the clerihew. A clerihew is described by the Chambers dictionary as 'a jingle that humorously sums up the life and character of some notable person in two short couplets'. Ideally, the lines should be of unequal length ('in the rhythm of prose') and the subject's name should end one line, preferably with a rather tortuous rhyme. Anyway, not having any reference materials to hand, but with some time to kill I responded with one of my own:Finding that no-one in Delhi knewIt turned out that I was wrong. Although Auden famously wrote a large number of clerihews, the form was actually invented by (and named after) his friend Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). But this got me started, and now on finishing a book I often try to summarise the author's thoughts (or what I think of them) in a clerihew. Last week, in the unlikely locale of a European Commission evaluation session (where a certain amount of 'down time' is involved), I found that at least one other person finds these entertaining, so in case there are more of you out there, here are a few examples. Needless to say I would love to hear yours! Karl Popper Donna Haraway And finally here's one about Andy Warhol, inspired by a visit yesterday to the exhibition of his work currently showing at the Tate Modern in London Famous for more than 15 minutes And for anyone who'd like to look at a wider range by other authors, here are a couple of websites: http://www.yourbooklink.com/poetry/poeticforms/lightverse/theclerihew/ http://thinks.com/words/clerihew.htm MINOR CRUELTIESA reminder that you can still order copies of this book of short stories by Judy Savage published by Analytica from www.minorcruelties.com There's a gift-wrapping service and we can send to any address, so it's a good and painless way to send a birthday present. So far we have had nothing but positive feedback from readers.NOTEAll contents of this newsletter are copyright © Ursula Huws, 2002. However you are free to pass it on to anyone for non-commercial purposes provided the text, including this copyright notice, is not changed.If this is forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe, please send an email to analytica@dial.pipex.com with the word 'subscribe' in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to analytica@dial.pipex.com with the words 'delete me' in the subject line |
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