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European Union - General Sites
http://www.ispo.cec.be gives access to a listserv which contains information about information highways and electronic democracy. Also contains details of the highly controversial bit tax proposed by Professor Luc Soete
The Advanced Communications and Technologies and Services programme (ACTS)operated by DGXIII/B of the European Union is comprehensively covered through this Information Window (InfoWin) site, including a list of projects and their web sites.
http://www.RACE.analysys.co.uk is the excellent server operated by British telecoms consultancy Analysys. It contains information on the EU's RACE and ACTS programmes. Do not miss the SONAH section which gives succinct, practical useful summaries of the findings of several EU projects.
http://www.intranet.gr/wise/english/rd/projects/tenibc/overview.html contains information on the European Union RACE projects.
ECTF is a network of academics and consultants whose discussions have been supported by the European Commission.
http://www.imprimatur.alcs.co.uk contains information on the Imprimatur project on intellectual property rights and you can register your interest in being involved in the Special Interest Groups currently being organised.
http://www.rare.nl is the site of the European association RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) which encourages the formation of consortia to apply for funding for telematics projects. The members of RARE are mainly national academic and research networks and representatives of user communities, and they operate a project called UPTURN to increase the number of proposals - follow the UPTURN link. There is also a listserve which can be access by subscribing to server@rare.nl
http://www.sisu.se/projects/CoopWWW/coopw~1.htm gives information about the CoopWWW programme which aims to provide a set of interworking tools for group collaboration using WWW.
The Elanet project gives details of the involvement of regional authorities throughout Europe in telematics projects.
The GIP project is a wide ranging set of information about the Global Inventory Project set up under the G7 group of nations activities to move towards the information society.
The Telecities site gives information on the "digital cities" initiatives being carried out around Europe.
Some results of the Patra project which looked at the psychological aspects of teleworking, are available. This project was carried out under the ORA section of the EU's third framework programme.
The DEMETER project aims to provide distance education, multimedia teleservices and telework for farmers.
Email contact: info@demenet.com
WWW Site: http://www.demenet.comThe LEADER programme - ("liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale") is the main rural development programme of the European Commission and has telematics as one of its action areas.
The ADAPT programme is the European Social Fund Community Initiative designed to help European employers and workers anticipate industrial change.
European Telework Development ( http://www.eto.org.uk/etd/ )is an initiative to increase awareness, understanding and successful use of telework, teletrade and telecooperation, and is part of the European ACTS programme - Advanced Communications Technologies and Services.
PIPER - The aim of the Piper project is to provide assistance to TAP projects in the dissemination of their deliverables on-line. To this end we have developed a free piece of software which converts rich text format documents into fully navigable 3 frame web pages - The Piper Tool Kit v2.0.
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