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First Questions

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First Questions

The first set of questions comes in from our colleague Robert Ayres of CMER - The Centre for the Management of Environmental Resources of Insead, who has indicated that he is extremely wary of inflated claims about telework and would like to know...

1. How many people are currently teleworking and where?
2. What kinds of things are they doing?
3. Is the situation significantly different now, as opposed to, say, a decade ago? If so, why?
4. What is the evidence that demonstrates they these technologies are serving to… decrease, increase or shift physical movement patterns and related environmental impacts?
5. What are the environmental costs of telework? (Everybody talks about the benefits, but…)
6. Could you imagine a society in which ‘everyone’ teleworks? Or will this remain a fringe or marginal activity?
7. If telework is a (potentially) positive force in the move to a more sustainable, much lower emissions society – what are the barriers that are holding it back?
8. What should policy makers and researchers be focusing on now in order to advance the positive impacts of telework in sustainability terms? What are the policy areas or initiatives which, if we could get them right, could lead to a ‘major breakthrough’ to z/s.. (Who, What , How, When Where)

(Note: Common sense may dictate that the "7" questions may eventually turn out to be a much larger number – but perhaps we will to well to draw some kind of line after the ‘top 7’ so that those that we believe to be most important will in fact get the bulk of the attention. Also worth noting that by dint of the conference procedures, the more discussed items will automatically be pushed up to the top on that page. All of this however will come out in the actual doing of it in the weeks ahead.)

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