Finding out what others have done

Resources providing good practice examples, advice and data

The EMERGENCE newsletter includes several articles on regions which have successfully developed specialist niches in the new global division of labour in information services, and companies which have ‘gone global’ using ICT links:
http://www.emergence.nu/news/

Teleworking and Rural Development is a report produced by IES for the UK Rural Development Commission which includes a detailed analysis of the regional ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors determining the location of eWork in England:
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=rdc

Teleworking and Local Government: Assessing the Costs and Benefits is another IES report, commissioned by the UK Local Government Management Board, which includes an overview of local government strategies for the development of eWork:
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=telegovt

Teleworking and Globalisation, an IES publication, includes a world-level analysis of the factors influencing the uptake of eWork:
http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/pubs/report.php?id=358

The Analytica website and newsletter also includes a variety of information of relevance to the development of eWork strategies:
http://www.analytica.org.uk

The Beep (Best eEurope Practices) project includes some good practice case studies on a database of cases, addressing isssues relating to work and skills, the digital SME, social inclusion and regional development:
http://www.beep-eu.org

The LOCREGIS database provides tools to benchmark the regional information society and provides a project database, regional information society profiles, and project profiling results:
http://www.locregis.net, LOCREGIS has also produced a best practice handbook

The BISER project is developing sets of regional indicators for measuring the impact of the information society on European regions and is collecting large data sets across a sample of European regions:
http://www.biser-eu.com

The FLEXWORK project, for bringing new ways of working to remote regions, is supporting business advisors, managers of small or medium sized businesses, and agencies concerned with regeneration and sustainability:
http://www.flexwork.eu.com

The USHER project is promoted by a set of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and Business Support Organisations, and provides a package of support for advisors working with small business entering e-commerce, and for SME managers who wish to explore e-Business benefits, particularly in a regional context:
http://www.usherproject.org.uk/

The Cross National Survey on Informatics Readiness is focused mainly on European Rural Areas and provides good practice results from a large survey conducted across 6 EU countries in 2000:
http://www.zeusnet.gr/csoir/

The RuralWins project is developing a roadmap, which will ensure the economically and technically feasible deployment of communication solutions for rural areas that allow broadband connection to ‘universal services’ such as voice and internet access:
http://www.ruralwins.org

The Regional-IST project is examining e-Government and e-Business implementation in the European regions for measuring, auditing and benchmarking the use of ICT. Its main focus is upon building a network of regional IS Observatories to become a platform to assist decision makers:
http://www.isi.fhg.de/ir/pb_html/regional_ist.htm

CURDS, the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, at Newcastle University (UK) has long experience researching the regional impacts of ICT, and their website provides many reports and relevant links:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/

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