| Go to Rethinking Work + New Ways to Work in an Information Society
A 21st century group work platform, mediated by a steadily expanding series of electronic and communications tools, and specifically targeted to encourage and support alternative thinking and hands-on experimentation in the fast-changing, often troubled and seriously under-explored new world of work. Attention to ways in which the world of work and the rapid advances in information and communications technology interface with each other. New opportunities are there. But we must be open to them 16 April 2006: There is no doubt in my mind that this - together with the Kyoto World Cities 20/20 Challenge program - is among the most important and timely of the programs that we have undertaken under The Commons over the last fifteen years. The central accomplishment of this program remains the 'thinking exercise' that we carried out under the auspices of the European Commission with the support of a highly qualified group of international collaborators coming from a number of fields and places, the report Rethinking Work: An Exploratory Investigation of New Ways to Work in an Information Society which you can access directly here. In addition to this you may want to have a look at the 1996 report, also with the Europcean Commission: The Information Society and Sustainable Development Why have we thus far been unable to build on what I believe to be a very firm base of enquiry and an initial set of action proposals? A failure of communications on our part? Ideas such as the necessary delinking of income and work, which we have somehow failed to get across in a sufficiently convincing manner? Whatever it might be, this is a program which in our view should be getting highest priority at this time.
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