Deployment of Telework in European Public Administrations

Technological persuasion
However, definitions relate to purposes. Rather more important than the search for strict
classifications is the 
persuasive character of technological environments
. Together with the
growing numbers of PCs and modems in private households, the increasing interoperability
between and within public administrations is the provision of the technical means and technical
skills for decentralised ICT-based flexible work. ‘With distributed and relational databases it no
longer matters where an organisation or an administrative layer is located.’
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Indeed, we currently
face an enormous shift towards pan-European electronic tele-cooperation as exemplified by the
Schengen Information System (SIS), the inter-connection of data among different bureaucracies
on national basis and telematic applications at local level. DG XIII of the European Commission
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