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TDC

Jeremy Millard is Managing Consultant with Tele Danmark Consult, the main Danish telecoms supplier and carrier, and since 1986 has specialised in assisting clients understand the socio-economic, human and marketing aspects of new  information and communication technologies. His background is as a consultant, social scientist and educationalist in the UK before moving to Denmark in 1983.

He has been involved in numerous research projects for the European Commission and other funding agencies, as well as private clients in Europe and internationally, and has worked on teleworking, employment, regional, rural and urban, distance education, marketing, environmental and cultural studies. Many
of these have involved investigations of user needs and best practice approaches, and have been based on cooperation with the whole range of actors from users to suppliers, including governments, regional authorities, employers, trades unions, and other   decision-makers in large and small organisations and companies, including SMEs.

The Commission programmes in which he has participated include DELTA, COMETT, RACE, STAR, ORA, Telework Stimulation, TA  and ACTS. In addition to his work on TeleWork Europa he is also managing the main ACT Telework project: European Telework Development.

Moindrot Associates

Paddy Moindrot has been a teleworker since1989, and is currently involved in the development of a marketing system to benefit teleworkers from Wales. His enthusiasm for telework stems from a long-term interest in the social and economic regeneration of rural areas, and he has been working with a community charity called TeleCottages Wales for five years. TCW aims to bring IT skills within reach of all rural communities in Wales, and encourages the
formation of telecottages and telecentres (IT resource centres). He is also a director of the UK-wide Telecottage Association. Based in a 16th century farmstead in mid-Wales, Paddy uses mobile technology to keep in touch with his work, whatever and wherever it is. Part of his work each day is sysoping (mediating) the TeleWork Europa Forum on CompuServe, and this keeps him in frequent touch with teleworkers around the world.

Frederick Dawkins

Freddie Dawkins is a well-known European journalist, researcher and CIT consultant, with offices in the UK, Finland and Belgium. He edits several pan-European publications in the fields of Electronic Commerce/EDI, Electronic Messaging (both Internet and X.400) and ISDN, and has been retained by some of the largest telecommunication service providers in Europe on various high-level strategic studies. Part of an established network of European editors, he regularly contributes to specialist publications in Sweden, Finland, France, Germany and the UK. Over the past four years, Freddie Dawkins has been a System Operator (Sysop) for the Telework Europa Forum of CompuServe and has been employed as the Media Relations Manager for the annual European Telework Week.

Kevin Tea Communications

Kevin Tea has more than 25 years senior journalism and marketing communications experience. He has diversified into working with clients to provide an online presence on the Internet as a marketing tool, as well as advising them on integrating electronic messaging techniques into their existing communications strategy for greater flexibility and productivity. With some clients he is also developing Intranet strategies to enhance internal communications and is a contributor to Web Weaving - Intranets, Extranets and Strategic Alliances along with other contributors including Tim Berners Lee, and Bill Gates . He also runs the UK Outdoors forum on CompuServe. For further information: http://www.ktc.co.uk

SteppingStones (Europe) Ltd

Steppingstones was established as a Limited Company in 1992 to provide support services for a group of consultants helping clients benefit from the introduction of the Single Market. As the benefits of Quality Assurance and telematic tools became more apparent to local SMEs the company responded by directly providing quality and telematic business services and training. This area of work became our priority in 1995 through our involvement with the EU's Telematic Applications Programme and our provision of the UK representative to the ISO terminology task-force (TC176). The company also sells and supports a small range of professional level Internet related software.

The company has a purpose designed training and consultancy centre in Balham, (south-west London) where we provide training in the use of Internet applications and networking courses (Windows NT4) for the Microsoft Certified Professional examinations (MCP).

The company has it's own Internet domain (steppingstones.co.uk) which it uses for promotion and demonstration as well as managing a number of sites for other agencies, including the Terminology Task Force (TC176) for the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Further information: http://www.steppingstones.co.uk

AEIDL

AEIDL - The European Association for Information on Local Development - is a non-profit organisation specialising in information, communications and technical support services for European programmes and initiatives.

AEIDL's objective is to contribute to the widest possible flow of information at European level. Access to information is a key step in enabling all the regions and communities in Europe to tap its resources and benefit from new developments and initiatives.

AEIDL'S subject specialities include rural, local and regional development, employment and training, small business development, telematics and social affairs.

AEIDL's list of clients includes the European Commission (in particular DG I, DG V, DG VI, DG X, DG XIII and DG XVI), European organisations and consultancies and national and regional bodies.

AEIDL’s role in Leader II, Links between actions of Rural economy, (1995 -1999) is that of European Observatory. The main role of the Leader European Observatory is to facilitate innovation transfers and exchanges of experiences and know-how between the territories and rural players of the European Union. It also works towards raising the profile of the Leader programme and the EU’s rural development policy.

The AEIDL was also the co-ordinating partner in the FOR A & FORADA projects for DG XIII. The FORA project was concerned with the development of a consensus between the different interest groups on the advantages of using telematics in rural areas and the most effective ways to encourage its wider use.

The FORADA action was set up by the European Commission in December 1994 to disseminate the results and conclusions of its 'R&D on Telematic Systems for Rural Areas' ('ORA') Programme (1990-94). Specifically it was concerned with the potential for using applications of telematics in rural areas to stimulate socio-economic development and as a means of facilitating the provision of public and private services.

Further information can be obtained on the website http://www.aeidl.be

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