Call for papers and participation

We are pleased to announce a preliminary program with keynotes and paper presentations to the 12th International Workshop on Telework in Norway from 26th to 28th August 2007. We can offer a variety of around 40 papers in addition to some fascinating key-note speakers:

• “The state of eWork in Europe today”
  by Karsten Gareis, Empirica, Germany
• “The experiences with telework and new organisational forms within Norwegian Public Road Administration (NPRA)”
  by Hanne Heen, Work Research Inst. and Wiggo Knudsen, NPRA, Norway
• “Between Transparancy and Borders. The Practice of Operation-Support (OPS) Rooms in an oil company”
  by Berit Moltu, SINTEF Technology and Society, Norway
• “ICT and telework for sustainable development, Swedish National Strategy for ICT and Sustainable Development”
  by Peter Arnfalk, Lund University, Sweden
• “Being in the centre even for a remote location with ICT,
  by Jonny Tungen, Intelligens Quality, Norway
• “Turn it off, the limits of availability”
  by Gil Gordon, Gil Gordon Associates, USA
• “Digital natives and the future workforce”
  by Marianne Levinsen, Fremforsk, Denmark

We have paper sessions on topics such as: virtual teams, social networks and knowledge management, management of telework, workspace design, HRM, technology for telework, e-learning and digital literacy, complex coordination at a distance, organisational change, distributed innovations, and innovative organisational forms in the public sector. In addition we will have a session where participants can launch their R&D-ideas in order to get participants and develop international projects.

For those who now consider sending in a late abstract, we keep an opening for this until May 20th. We have also opened up for registration to the conference where we welcome participants with and without papers. Other important dates are:

The International Telework Academy (ITA) is welcoming you to three days of research exchange, networking and social activities.

Kind Regards,

Svein Bergum
Chair, 12th International Workshop on Telework

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Updated: 17-08-07