Where in the World? First EMERGENCE Conference

The Conference Programme
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Session 1    Session 2

Session 1: Tuesday 24 October 2000
	Chair’s announcements	Professor Csaba Makó, Research Director, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences, and Director, Institute for Management Education, St Stephen University, Budapest
	Welcome address	Dr Keviczky László, Vice-President of Hungarian Academy of Science
33kb	Keynote speech: The new digital global economy: an overview	John Browning, editor, New Economy Watch
794kb	E-work location in a global digital economy	Ursula Huws, director of EMERGENCE, Institute for Employment Studies Judy Morrell, Director, NOP Business
162kb	Statistical indicators of the information society: the Eurostat agenda	Jean-Louis Mercy, Head of Sector, Research and Development in Statistics, EUROSTAT
126kb	Human capital in the new economy	Mario Cervantes, Economist, OECD
158kb	National niches in a digital global economy: towards a typology. Preliminary results of EMERGENCE analysis	Nick Jagger, Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies

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Session 2: Wednesday 25 October 2000
	Chair’s announcements	Richard Pearson, Director, Institute for Emplyment Studies
178kb	The Future of the Internet and its implications for employment	Kazuhiko Nishi, Founder and Vice President, ASCII Corporation, Japan
211kb	Hungary: skilled employment on the doorstep of the EU	Gabor Élõ, Director, Research and Development Laboratory, Nokia, Hungary
149kb	Diversity and the digital economy as drivers of the new economy in the European periphery	Glyn Williams, Director Research Centre, University of Wales, Bangor
	*Chair’s announcements	Serge Leroux, Director, TOSCA Project
208kb	*New Brunswick: call centre capital of North America	Professor Ellen Balka, professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada
173kb	*Morocco: prime offshore destination for French call centres	Professor Saâd Belghazi, Professor of Economics at the Institut Général de la Recherche Appliquée, Rabat, Morocco
50kb	*Call centres in South Africa: new opportunities for enterprise?	Racuni Naidoo, Director, Enterprise Objects Network, South Africa
	*Chair’s announcements	Rifke Weehuizen Research Coordinator, International Institute of Infonomics, University of Maastricht, The Netherland
106kb	*India’s export software sector and its place in the digital global economy	Dr Jane Millar, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) University of Sussex, UK
73kb	*Knowledge professionals or controlled production workers? Medical transcription work in Bangalore	Dr Jan Sinclair Jones, Curtin University, Australia
	Chair’s announcements	Jeremy Millard, Danish Technology Institute
219kb	E-Europe	Dr Jean Millar, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission DG Information Society, IST Programme
	The new global structure of employment	Rashid Amjad, Chief of the ‘World Employment Report’ team, International Labour Office
61kb	Sustaining quality employment in Europe in the E-economy	Penny Clarke, ETUC
173kb	*Call centres: employment strategies in France	Jean-Claude Delaunay, ISERES, France
153kb	*Call centres in South Africa: the employee perspective	Charley Lewis, Head of Information Technology Unit, COSATU, South Africa
33kb	*Call centres as an instrument of regional development: the case of Sweden	Professor Birger Rapp, Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology, Sweden, and Carl-Johan Petri, Linköping University
88kb	*ITCs, employment and the economic development of rural regions? The case of Australia	Dr Peter Standen, School of Management, Edith Cowan University, Australia
83kb	*Externalisation strategies by European companies: the case of Austria	Dr Jörg Flecker, Director of Forschungs und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA), Austria
45kb	*The risks of e-exclusion in a digital global economy: the case of Botswana	Dr Charles Manga Fombad, University of Botswana
	Chair’s announcements	Dr Jörg Flecker, FORBA
132kb	Information technology in India : the shift in paradigm	Shiri Ahuja, Lecturer in Management, University of Roorkee, India
	Rapporteur’s summary	Ursula Huws

* = Sessions took place simultaneously.
 

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