Telecenters

• Newfoundland and Labrador Telecentres
  The "Local Information and Networked Knowledge" supports the Regional Economic Development Boards in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was established to develop local economies by improving the opportunities. See the Telecentre Case Study - Southern Labrador

Germany

• Allgäu - Rettenberg

• Coburg

• Donau-Ries

• Märkisch Oderland - T@zo

• Neumarkt - Telezentrum Landkreis Neumarkt, Freystadt

• Nordhorn - Telehaus Nordhorn

• Schöpingen

• TeleService Kronach

Italy

• Centro di Telelavoro — Roma Nexus
  A teleworking center, realized by Telecom Italia in cooperation with Rome municipality. The Center offers advanced IT and telematic services, including the availability of the most widely used software packages, the access to company intranets and software, Internet, e-mail, document sharing between users, data transfer, access to remote computers or to different data bases. Moreover a Service Center ensures helpdesk availability and secretarial services like photocopies, phone and mail handling, parcels dispatching and booking. The center, organized on a desk-share policy, offers different kind of workspaces that can be booked for a few hours or months and configured, according to the different requirements, as flexible and modular 'virtual office'. In the Center there are about 100 multimedia workplaces, placed in single offices or in open spaces of different sizes.

USA

• Atlanta Telecommute Center
  There are four telecommute centers in Atlanta (Georgia) which are linked from this page: Fayetteville Center, Gainesville Center, Kennesaw Center, and Lithonia Center.

• Bishop Paiute Telework Center

• Cambridge Telework Center
  Started in May 1996 to investigate the application of advanced telecommunications technologies to reduce vehicle miles trabeled on trunk highways, air pollution, and fuel consumption. The center serves the Metro Minnesota area.

• Chula Vista Telecenter
  The message is clear: "Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do". In this center you can do it in a professional, well-equiped office environment. This site includes a guidebook, Telecenters - The Workplace of the Future.

• Frederick Telework Center (FTC) (Maryland)

• GMU Telework & Training Centers
  They offer telework, office hoteling, (video-)conferencing and business services from three Northern Virginia locations. Part of a 17 telecenter network around Washington DC. Sponsored by the US General Services Administration.

• Grass Valley TeleBusiness Center (California)
  The center can serve you as a remote worksite, office hotelling and work skill building.

• Hagerstown Telework Center (Maryland)
  A professional office setting that facilitates telecommuting via telecommunications, video teleconferencing, distance learning, high-function computing, and Internet accessability.

• Highland Telebusiness Workcenter - Potomac Highland Plaza.

• Long Beach Telebusiness Workcenter - California.

• Manassas Telecommuting (Virginia)

• San Juan Capistrano TeleBusiness Center

• Vacaville Telecenter

• Ventura

• Directories

  • Teleworking Neighborhood Telecenter Program
    A clickable map of California links to a number of past and present CA telecenters. Editor: Patricia L. Mokhtarian (Director Carol Buckinger, Manager Neighborhood Telecenter Program, Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis, USA).

  • Washington Metropolitan Telework Centers - Center contacts in Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia.

Netherlands

• Computer Clubhuis - Amsterdam
  Part of the Computer Clubhouse Network that provides a creative and safe after-school learning environment where young people from under-served communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.

• Digitale Trapvelden Amsterdams

• Kenniswijk Eindhoven
  

• Kenniswijk Zeeburg (Amsterdam)

• TeleDock - Digitale Werkplaatsen Amsterdam
  Initiative for multi-functional telecenters in Amsterdam.

• Telewerkcentrum Almere - ING

• Telewerkcentrum De Peel
  

• Telewerkcentrum Zeswegen (Heerlen)

• VCC Telewerkcentrum
  Facilitating telework in the North of the Netherlands.

• Stedenlink
  A network of knowledge cities.

• Internetcafes in the Netherlands

United Kingdom

• Adur Resource Centre - Shoreham by Sea.

• Antur Tanat Cain Telecafe - Llangedwyn Mill, Llangedwyn, Powys, Wales.

• Antur Teifi - Teifi Valley, Newcastle Emlyn, Wales.

• Burford Computer Centre - Burford, Oxfordshire.

• Castell-y-dail Telecottage - Newtown, Powys.

• CEB Telecentre - Brecon-Powys.

• CavanNet - Ierland.

• Clarendon City College

• Colwyn Telecentre

• Copyplus Telecottage - Gwent, Wales.

• Cosmic
  A telecottage that based in the disused railway station in the village of Ottery St Mary in Devon. The project is focussed on young people and is designed around the Internet Café model. During school hours the facility is available to businesses and is used for adult education. The telecottage offers Internet linked terminal that are connected for 24 hours per day via a 64k ISDEN. The project is also launching a teleworkers' database.

• Crickhowell Community Telecottage

• Daventry Tertiary College

• FlexIt - Barnstaple, North Devon.

• Honeytree Services - Brecon, Powys.

• Ilkley Telecottage Services - Ireland.

• KC3
  KC3 connects Kington and the surrounding area to the world by the innovative use of information technology. They offer dial up access to email, the World Wide Web, File Transfer Sites and News Groups. This service is supported by a technical team who operate a direct line Help Desk number the team are also available to come out to your home/office to configure your system for you.

• Mevagissey Telecottage - Cornwall.

• Nottinghamshire - Virtual Village Project
  An innovative project that tries to link people in eleven coalfield villages using the Internet and video conferencing.

• Phoenix Telecentre - Cleator Moor, Cumbria.
  The Internet Suite can be hired by the hour and the services include video-conferencing facilities and - daytime and online courses.

• Rural Area Training Information Opportunities - RATIO - Drake Circus, Plymouth.

• SIMTRA Centres
  Provides subsidised computer training from beginners courses to specific business applications in 6 compter centres. Simtra is part of the Pembrokshire County Councils' Community Education Department.

• SPEC - The Standon Parish Electronic Centre.

• Telecentres Powys - Welsh telecentres.
  Each telecentre has slightly different goals but the overall shared objective is to provide low cost, high quality, flexible access to modern computer and communications technologies to all members of the community. This shared common objective has given rise to a network of Telecentres who work together to ensure every effort is made to support the rapidly growing demands of our rural communities upon modern technology.

• WREN Telecottage - Warwickshire Rural Enterprise Network

• Directories
  • Telecottage Location Map
    A clickable map of the UK showing TCA telecottages/telecentres. You can also use the alphabetical listing of British and Irish telecottages.

  • Telecottages Wales (TeleFythynnod Cymru)
    A registered promotional charity which advises communities which wish to start a telecottage in their area. On this site you can find your nearest telecottage in Wales.

Editor	dr. Albert Benschop Social & Behavioral Studies University of Amsterdam
Created	July, 1996
Last modified	24th December, 2005