European Telework Week: 4-11 November 1996
Country Report - Belgium
Reporter: Christian van Asbroeck, ETD National Coordinator, Belgium &
Luxembourg.
The Belgian TeleWorking Association (BTA)
celebrated the 2nd European Telework Week on November 7, 1996 at the Palais
des Colonies in Tervuren near Brussels.
Starting at 11.00, a seminar on "Tools for Teleworking in the Enterprise",
chaired by Maarten Botterman from DG XIII of the CEC and Ian Culpin, BTA's
Secretary General, was attended by some 50 paying participants from a variety
of companies and institutions. Presentations were given by Anixter, Alcatel
Bell, Belgacom, IBM, Lotus, RAM Mobile Data, and Telindus. In addition Noel
Orain, a board member of BTA, demonstrated the importance of telework for
the disabled.
The seminar was followed at 17.00 by a Panel Discussion, moderated by Piet
De Puydt, a journalist with Trends magazine, where non-technical aspects
of the implementation of telework in an enterprise were reviewed.
At 18.00 in the main hall, BTA's President Xavier Darmstaedter opened the
reception and introduced the guests speakers: Jan Lamers, Managing Director
of the leading financial and economic newspaper "De Financieel-Economische
Tijd", and David Szafran, who spoke for Belgium's Vice Prime Minister
Elio Di Rupo, also Minister of Economy and Telecommunications.
The highlight of the evening was the inauguration of the BTA web site. Over
300 representatives from the political, governmental, business and academic
worlds attended the reception.
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