The Asociación Argentina de Teletrabajo has developed the TEDEL Project: Telework and New Working Methods for Local Development (as per Spanish acronym) directed towards piloting five research experiences and promoting local development initiatives through the application of new working methods.
It is to be developed in five localities within the Argentinean territory and it is aimed at creating a set of favorable conditions for promoting local development initiatives in a two-year term as form 2006 and disseminating and applying new working, employment and teleworking methods.
The Project will be introduced in:
Benito Juárez, Buenos Aires
Fernández, Santiago del Estero
Villa Ángela, Chaco
25 de Mayo, La Pampa
Belén, Catamarca
TEDEL basically consists in a research study that will record the different follow-up, monitoring, analysis, interpretation and assessment activities of the whole development process of each experience in particular.
Concurrently, the different types of learning will be systematized in a conceptual model that includes them all and becomes a framework and a source of reference for the creation and development of other similar experiences with other groups of people, institutions, localities and regions.
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What Telework is and its Impact on Local Development |
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The TEDEL research project is driven by the convergence of…
…the increasingly consolidated trends for the dissemination of new working, employment and teleworking methods.
…the local development strategy.
What is Telework?
Telework and the new working methods are a flexible way of working mainly characterized by the fact that people do their job far form the company environment and/or their clients using the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
It is a way of working that requires new working skills of teleworkers:
Teamwork
Dealing with complex knowledge
Continuing training during the whole professional career
Collaborative learning
An innate or acquired curiosity for discovering what new technologies can offer when performing any task
These new working methods are acknowledged to have an impact on the definitive structure that the knowledge society will have in Latin America and the Caribbean on key social and development issues, such as social equity, employment, human resources education and training, new social groups leading to socioeconomic and technological transformation and the subsequent social relationships, and its integration into the world.
How to Understand Local Development?
It is necessary to understand local development from a broad perspective that shows its capacity to overcome many of the issues that these days of uncertainty bring to people’s needs and expectations.
Therefore, local development may be defined as…
… a cultural changing process that adopts learning features: a player-strengthening process that values the community’s own capacities and a reconstruction process of cooperating bonds and social capital1 strengthening.
Three Core Elements for this Process
Gender Issues:
Introducing this variable into local development projects means moving forward towards equality, regarding sex as a social and cultural category with different manifestations according to the relationship patterns shown by each society and/or culture at certain historical moment. Therefore, changes in attitudes, structures and mechanisms are necessary at all levels.
Inclusion of people with disabilities:
Following the international classifications developed by the WHO, TEDEL adopts the expression “people with disabilities” to highlight that disability is a health condition that does not entail “special needs”, but requires support to satisfy the needs that are common to everyone. Thus, it is essential to work on the importance of generating non-excluding, barrier-free environments.
Education and training as a strategic element in local development policies
This Project aims at understanding education and training as the catalysts of a society that is undergoing changes. These, together with other general political actions, should provide adequate answers to corporate and labor competitiveness underlying issues, and to the problem of social exclusion in every dimension.
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