The EPITELIO - Network is formed by a wide range of entities highly involved with social integration programmes and projects, as well as technical works on telematics and experience around teleworking and teleservices. The last point of this part B make an in depth introduction around the characteristics of partners. Here in the list of members of the consortium.

Pan - european organisations:

TERN (Trans - European Rural Network) . This entity will provide a rural network where will be running the application in Pilot sites located in France, Belgium, Norway, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Denmark.

ECTF (European Community Telematic/Telecommunication Forum).

Telecities Association.

NGOs with an intensive work in telematic services that they will be acting as pilot sites :

PANGEA (network of more than 200 Pilot Sites) Spain.

SODEPAZ (network of 40 Pilot sites ) Spain.

EUSKALNET (network of 10 Pilot sites ) Spain.

Rete Civica di Milano, Italy.

Research Centres specialised on evaluation and monitoring telematic application process and social / human impacts:

Vista Research and Consultation United Kingdom.

INMARK Spain.

Research Centres and supplier of services:

UPC Spain.

DIT/UPM Spain.

Public administrations:

Navarra Regional Council (Department of Health and Social Welfare).

Partners References and related projects.

The references will include the profile of the EPITELIO - network members. They are the following:

Euskalnet is a legal Association, non profit organisation, working in the develop of a Net which are placed in four different sites in the north of Spain: Navarra, Guipuzcoa, Alava and Vizcaya.

To develop their activities, EUSKALNET has installed four nodes in aforementioned sites where is running "Waffle" Software. The Waffle system lets to final users the information interchange as well as sending and reading messages and files. The potential users are more than 30.000.000 users, working together by Internet, only by a local phone call to the nearest BBS (Bulletin Board System).

The information that a user can take from EUSKALNET is related with the information into the APC Network, who are working in more than 90 countries like a non profit network.

EUSKALNET has a basic telematic infrastructure which is giving a basic offer of services to intermediate and end users. These are linked with the fight against social exclusion in different ways. The environment of groups linked actively with the EUSKALNET telematic offers can be understood by the following list:

Groups in the fight against social exclusion related with the drugs abuse.

Fundación Bartolomé de Carranza.

ONG Askagintza.

Proyecto Hombre.

ONG Adal.

AIDS and HLV Help Groups.

Comisión Antisida de Pamplona.

Sare.

Comisión Antisida de Bilbao.

Comisión Antisida de San Sebastián.

Grupo T4.

Linguistic groups (vasque language).

EKB (Euskal Kultur Batzordea). Here is a federation of entities (40 organisations) linked with schools, teachers forums, etc.

Disadvantage and elderly groups.

Asociación de Minusvalidos de Navarra.

Asociación de Sordomudos de Navarra.

Asociación Cubana de discapacitados físico - motores.

Euskalnet telematic network allows to users the access to an special "meeting point" where is the interchange of information about tasks related to social projects. Connecting by phone line, a final user needs around 10 minutes to retrieving information as well to send or read their own e-mail. Euskalnet support the use of the Vask language (named Euskera is the second official language in the areas of work of the Euskalnet Network). Euskalnet helps to isolated people (by territorial or language handicaps) and vasque speakers the access to the information facilities offered in the application because of its bilingual interface (spanish and vasque language). Many members of NGOs linked with cooperation initiatives in the country and with third countries are coordinated by the use of the Euskalnet network. In this sense there is a wide range of projects and initiatives linked with experiences with Cuba country. Specifically there is a communication service playing as a bridge between organisations and expertises which are working together around the implementation of a teleservice for handicapped and elderly people.

At the same time Euskalnet has been providing special training courses, for groups and individuals, to help them in the access to the Euskalnet Telematic Application (software and basic navigation in the communication progress).

Euskalnet have been preparing special internal taskforces in order to expand conferences from the Euskalnet Network to the APC Network (about AIDS, Linguistics issues, Fighting against Drug Abuse, etc).

Today, Euskalnet is using basic hardware (486 Dx 33 Mhz, 500 Mb HDD, RAM 5Mb, with MS - DOS V.6.3, Qemm, Deskview and Waffle for Ms - DOS V 1.65) to give their services, but there is plans to enhance the telematic tool. According with this objective there is a taskforce acting on the improvement of the software and to rich the hardware platform to host new facilities.

SODEPAZ is a private and non profit organisation which is located in Madrid. This entity was created at 1987 as an initiative for work on the fields of the cooperation in Spain and the disadvantageous countries in the named "Third World". SODEPAZ considers that the problems on those type of societies are located not only outside of Europe. In each world country and city can be recognized the identity indicators that appear as a attributes of the Third World.

With this sense and feeling of the problems of the poverty SODEPAZ has been developing a wide range of activities with local communities. As well as this activities are focused to the direct assistance and support to self - initiatives the work on SODEPAZ has been carried out the telematics as a useful tools to allow the access to added value information to volunteers, researchers and project managers.

Last experience in this sense was been implemented with the organisation of telematic workshop around the situation of the development cooperation. This workshop was organized in Madrid with the name of "The other voices of the planet".

This experience in telematics teleservices has showed that there is a potential amount of users that could be interested to have a communication vehicle for the interchange of information. This workshop was at the beginning focused to be a transmission channel for the information and results generated by the real conferences in Madrid. In some interesting cases the telematic spaces was used as a channel for the interchange of information at other different levels: as a help desk for the knowledge on opportunities for the cooperation, as a help desk to have get fresh information about last scientific data and statistics, personal contacts, etc.

At the moment SODEPAZ has a basic hardware and software giving services for intermediate users (overall) and it has a handicap based on the difficulties linked with the restricted facilities and capabilities of the hardware. The current configuration is similar to those described for the Euskalnet experience, but , in this case there is an amount of users distributed in 40 places in Spain an some places of the South America. Their potential users are asking for a new developed telematic tool to allow the access to the information and facilities that they must solve by the visit (spending on travels and time) to the SODEPAZ office.

SODEPAZ has been supported the creation of "alternative shops" where just is accepted to sell products born from the hands of social excluded people around the world. It wants to be an experience to give a viability to self - initiatives. SODEPAZ considers that this type of initiatives can be integrated in some way in the EPITELIO telematic tool. This shop types are now integrated in Spain on an emergent network which will be integrated in the european network of the European Fair Trade Association identified as "alternative handle". The list of shops that can be integrated in this initiative is showed at the end of this part in "Others EPITELIO - Network target participants and extended references".

With an annual turnover of circa ECU 5.2 million, INMARK is one of the largest Spanish groups of medium-size private consultancy companies specialized in market assessment, commercial and institutional marketing, strategic planning, corporate and SMEs financing, information technologies management, project evaluation, socio-economic impact analysis, and regional and local economic development policy formulation and implementation.

INMARK is also part of an European network of similar companies named EUROINMAR with head coordination offices in Germany. And it has branch offices in several cities of Spain as well as in Argentina and Brazil.

INMARK has a permanent staff of 45 persons and a powerful network of independent professional for field work (interviewers, selling forces for third parties).INMARK's core of consultancy companies is formed by INMARK Estudios y Estrategias, specialized in market assessments, institutional and commercial marketing, strategic planning and corporate financing; INMARK Systems, specialized in organizational management, operational systems, software development and information technologies management and implementation; GESTINMARK specialized in management, including direct management of companies and institutions, refloating of companies in trouble, M+A, LBOs, MBOs; INMARK Human Resources, specialized in selection and training of personnel, including development and implementation of human resources management strategies; Task Force, specialized in direct marketing and the training and hiring (to third parties) of ad hoc professional sales teams; and FRS, specialized in providing high - valued information services to the financial and banking sector, where INMARK has a dominant participation.

INMARK has a proven record in carrying out complex and challenging projects in different business and socio - political environments involving an important research, communication, consensus development and institutional build - up effort. INMARK main institutional clients include local and regional governments and institutions (like Development Agencies, Chambers of Commerce, Foundations, etc). As well as international organizations like the EC (Directorates I, III, V, XII, XIII, XVI, XXII), UN, the World Bank and, more recently, the EBRD.

Pertaining to the SME environment, INMARK has a proven record of more than 17 years of close cooperation with this type of firms. Latest developments include the realization of technical and management audits and subsequent recommendation to SMEs to establish the viability to incorporate/adopt advanced telecommunication services to increase productivity, identify new business opportunities and in general support their market internationalization efforts. In the area of Information Technologies.

In addition to that, INMARK coordinates for Spain, as part of the corresponding european consortiums, a number of telematics/telework related projects called namely, SYNERGY, ARTISAN, SABRE, TELEURBA, EXPUN, RITE, BRITEUR, PRACTICE, ACCORDE and TELDET. Through these on - going projects INMARK has gained a good insight into the current and most successful uses of Euro - ISDN not only in Spain but across Europe.

INMARK then, is particularly well suited to undertake a very cost - effective promotion of Euro -ISDN in Spain and to a certain extent into other european countries in liaison with the Telework promoters in Europe.

ECTF is actively promoting the application of telework programmes not only in Spain but also across Europe through is key participation in the European Community Telework/Telematics Forum (ECTF). ECTF manages, jointly, with the Spanish University - Enterprise Foundation (a branch of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Industry), the International Secretariat of the ECTF.

The ECTF is the main framework across European Union member states for concertation (diffusion, promotion and consensus building) on telework and related telematics applications. The ECTF promotes teleworking and the exchange and dissemination of information between telework projects and organizations interested in teleworking. These actions are carried out by means of seminars, conferences, case - study based training sections, help - desk services, publications and electronic library & conferencing within a dedicated "electronic Forum" on the international Compuserve host system.

The ECTF is actively collaborating with TELEFONICA of Spain in the promotion of ISDN to support new Telework applications.

The Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas Telemáticos (Department of Telematic Systems Engineering), belongs to the Universidad Polit_cnica de Madrid (Technical University of Madrid). It is in charge of education and research in communications and informatics at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación.

In the department work more than 60 full time persons, including professors, researchers and administrative personnel. It teaches to about 1500 student from engineering to master and Ph. D.

The department activity covers teaching, research and services. Half of the research activity is about protocols, digital communications and network architecture. Other research areas are software engineering, formal specification and design methods, knowledge engineering and database. A great deal of this research is done in response to EEC programmes.

As a telematic service provider, the department ran for years the central node of the Spanish EUNET (European Unix Network) and the backbone of the Spanish academic network ARTIX.

Key personnel form the Madrid University involved in EPITELIO Project.

Joaquín Seoane Pascual.

Joaquín Seoane was born in 1953 and is a Ph. D. on Telecommunications Engineering by the Technical University of Madrid, where he is Associate Professor of the Telematic Systems Department. He worked in industry and university since 1977 developing real time data acquisition and control systems and data communication, and operating systems components.

As a professor, he has taught Programming (sequential, concurrent, distributed and object-oriented), Computer Architecture, Computer Networks and Protocols, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. He also developed and run several laboratories on these subjects. As a researcher, he participated in some national and European ESPRIT projects (CACTUS and OSI95).

In relationship with NGOs and the so called civil society, he is setting up the CID/EUROSUR telematic information centre run by IEPALA and intended to provide communication and database to other NGOs, specially those working in Third World, Women, Immigration and other margination issues.

Angel Fernández del Campo.

Angel Fernández is a Ph. D. by the Technical University of Madrid, where he is Associate Professor in the Telematic Systems Department. He has been working in the Computer and Communications industry in R&D from 1983 to1995. Since 1979 has been involved in R&D activities in the following topics: software design, software engineering, digital transmission, data communication, local and metropolitan networks, formal description techniques and parallel architectures for communication equipments.

He has been technical advisor or supervisor of several industry and public supported contracts, with applications on microprocessors, electronic design, software design and protocol specification and development. In paticular, he participated in the following UE supported projects: PRODAT (mobile data terminal project), MAST (Mult Aircraft Simulator Terminal), SEPS (Study and evaluation of PRODAT), CODE (Cooperative Olympus Data Experiment), SEDOS (Software Environments for Distributed Open Systems), OSI-95 (Open protocols for de 1995s), and ETSIT (Telecommunication Engineering Teaching by Satellite).

He has taught in several disciplines, like programming, computer architecture, communication networks, digital systems, and communication theory.

Instituto de Estudios Politicos para America Latina y Africa (I.E.P.A.L.A).

The D.I.T. has been working in close cooperation with the NGO IEPALA in order to set up a communication and information service called RedEuroSur, associated to APC. This NGO has a live and important documentation centre on third world and women related issues, and will work along with DIT in the project, providing a server centre and information and dynamization about inmigration and women issues. The people to be involved in this project are:

María Pilar Colchero, Joint IEPALA General Secretary, Documentation Center Director, and Graduate in Social and Political Sciences.

And the following documentalists: Lola Pena (Journalist), María Jesús García (Graduate in History), Yolanda Fern¡ndez (Graduate in Pedagogy), and Soledad Vaquero (Arab Filologist).

The Trans European Rural Network, TERN, is a coalition of grass-root initiatives based in rural areas throughout Europe. TERN was set up following the second EC programme to combat poverty and responded to a need to facilitate contacts between groups based in marginalised rural zones. TERN has received initial funding from the EC to facilitate the network is building within the Community.

Although the network is currently made up of a broad range of activities, its prime objective remains a commitment to issues related to poverty and social exclusion in rural areas. Service provision, and in particular the postal services, so vital to rural communities, is relevant to the debate on rural exclusion.

The most efficient means of achieving a greater understanding of the needs rural communities in through the process of networking both at national/regional level and at transnational levels. TERN has been instrumental in assisting the development of networks at national level and in binding contacts with rural groups part of the commission's LEADER I programme.

TERN draws its membership from a broad range of socio-economic and cultural initiatives in rural areas. Some of its members have been involved in preparations for the new TELEMATICS programme. A telematics conference was organised by TERN at the end of March 1994.

TERN in an international non-profit making organisation (AISBL) with an infrastructure in Brussels, registered under Belgian law. TERN's main tasks include:

Disseminating information on EU policy and programmes of interest to rural communities.

Creating a greater understanding of Europe, its institutions ant its procedures towards rural communities.

Preparing position papers and issues of policy to pursue at European level.

Key personnel of TERN involved in EPITELIO - Network proposal.

Barbara Diklev, born 22-4-1946 Danish citizen. Member of board Danish Village Association and editor of the Village News magazine since 1990.Vice president of TERN, Trans European Rural Network, from start, Nov. 1991, president since Oct. 1992.Author of articles concerning rural development in Danish, English, and Fr.

Special concern within rural development: Children, The Elderly, Social Exclusion Training, Postal Services, Transport, Renewable Energy and Telematics as a tool for development.

Consultancy work for Danish Ministry of Education, start on August 1994.

Presently involved with DGXIII, TURA; telematics for Urban and Rural Areas. Danish representative in Working Party.

DGXII, Study; Effect of RTD in Rural Development, North and South Europe (Two teams co-operating).

Other members of TERN, from the Administrative Council as of 24 March 1994, delegated to be advisors:

André Wenkin, representing Les Petits Mougns d'Potie, a network on small scale farmers Centre du Dèveloppement Rural.

Rue du Monument 7.

Belgique.

Frans Lannoy treasurer of TERN.

Bruxelles.

Barbara Diklev president of TERN , representing L.A.L., The Danish Village Association (Denmark).

Thierry Trabut.

France.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is a prestigious public university located on various cities in Catalonia with 38 departments, twenty two centers of high studies and six research institutes. In the academic year 92-93, the UPC had 34270 non-graduate students, 915 graduate students, 2040 teaching staff and 939 administrative staff.

The Department of Computer Architecture has 5 lines of research. One is:

Distributed Systems, with experience and projects in distributed applications and systems (ESPRIT COMANDOS-P2071, Organizer of the IFIP WG 6.5 conference ULPAA'94), client/server architectures, open documentarchitectures (editors of the parts of ISO-10031 DOAM, ISO-1066 DFR, ISO-8613 ODA and ODIF, ESPRIT FODATEC-5402, TWB and TWB II), open systems (OSI and Internet), specification and implementation of protocols, security in computer networks (TEDIS, EDITTP), computer supported cooperative work (ISO WG 18/4, COST 14 CO-TECH, ESPRIT Basic Research COMIC 6225), and international standards development (ISO, EWOS, AENOR, IFIP, IETF). Additional information can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.ac.upc.es or WWW: http://www.ac.upc.es.

Key personnel and advisor Manuel Medina.

Manuel Medina was born in Barcelona (Spain) the 17th of march of 1952.

Obtained the degree on Telecommunication engineering in September of 1974, and the Ph.D. in June of 1981. Since 1974 has been working in the technical university of Barcelona, first as lecturer, and since 1982 as full professor.

COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIES

In parallel with this academic work, has collaborated with several industries in R&D projects in the following subjects:

Specification and implementation of LAN and WAN based distributed systems, and VAN (Value Added Networks).

Evaluation and Revision of several CEC funded projects, under the umbrellas of the RACE, ESPRIT and VALUE programs.

Specification and implementation of security policies in distributed operating systems and applications.

Specification of security architectures and protocols for management of security information for secure data interchange (EDI, TCP/IP).

Among these relationships with the industries, it is specially interesting to mention the coordination of the participation of the department of computer architecture of the UPC in the ESPRIT projects:

718 CARLOS/CACTUS, from 1986 until 1989. To develop a X.400/84 MHS, with a message store based on the P7 protocol, to allow to have mailbox clients in any compatible PC. - 2315: Translation Workbench, since 1988. To develop a means to interconnect an automatic translation machine to a mailbox, in order to allow its access through the X.400 service.

2071: COMANDOS II, since 1988. To specify and implement the Security Architecture of a Distributed Operating System. Outside the ESPRIT program, he has participated in the TEDIS projects: SAM (Security Administration and Management in EDI), and EDITT (EDI Trusted Third Parties).

In these projects, the main areas of work are specification of distributed applications, and security of distributed systems.

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUPS

Between 1982 and 1994 has been collaborating in projects of the COST action:

COST-11.bis: GILT, which aim was to develop a distributed MHS, and where I coordinated the development of some communication entities of the OSI tower.

COST-11.ter: AMIGO, where I participated in the specification of the architecture of distributed MHS, able to support group communication.

COST-225 on Secure Communications, in order to experiment the means to provide the ISO security services with the ISO communication services.

Also since 1985 I am member of the IFIP WG6.5 developing basic research work in the field of electronic mail and conferencing systems. Since 1987 I have been member of its Conference Program Committee, and the Program Committee Co- Chair between 1992 and 1994.

I have been collaborating with RARE working group on VT, from 1987 until 1989, through the Spanish member of RARE, IRIS. And with the RARE working group on security, WG-SEC, since 1992. Also in the framework of the RARE activities, I did attend some meetings of the FTAM WG, and I did participate in the specification of the project to port the ISODE/FTAM package from UNIX to VMS, now already finished.

NATIONAL PROJECTS

Coordinator of several projects funded by the Spanish government, both to support the participation of our group in the international projects, and to provide the adequate infrastructure to the UPC, our university:

Distributed electronic mail system (related to GILT).

Group communication, Storage and Security (AMIGO and CACTUS related).

Distributed systems (COST-225, COMANDOS and TWB related).

Voice and data network of the UPC, to design and install the LAN and the telephone network of the UPC. I did also participate in the set up and organisation of the network maintenance and management, and in the internal Electronic mail installation.

I have also participated in the specification and pilot experiments of the IRIS, Spanish academic, network. Inside this activity I have attended some RARE workshops, participated in the program committee of its national conference, and set up of some of its projects, like the already mentioned FTAM, and VT, and also the local arm of the european academic network, the ARTIX network.

PANGEA (Comunicacio per a la Cooperacio (Comcoop)) is a federation of non-profit organisations created in 1993, devoted to the promotion of the use of telecommunications and computers for people and organisations working for the human and social development: education, health, peace, international cooperation, development and environmental issues. ComCoop want to offer and facilitate the access and use of these services, with the goal of improving and enhance the contacts with people and organisations of local and international scope.

ComCoop organizes specific and generic courses on the use of computing and telecommunications for people and non-profit organisations, and offers the Pangea network.

Pangea is the name of a computer communication service offering electronic mail, electronic conferences, access to databases with a local and global scope. Additional information is available by World Wide Web at http://www.pangea.org/. Founding members of ComCoop are the following NGO:

Moviment 0,7 % pel desenvolupament.

Pallassos sense Fronteres (PSF)

Moviment d'Objecció de Consciència.

Entrepobles.

Pangea hosts several initiatives of interest. The most outstanding projects have been: the IEARN.FAMILY project (during 1994) where approx. 30.000 pupils worlwide did educational activities on the concept of family. The exposition and conference (30.1.1995 - 15.2.1995) "Una finestra a la societat oberta" (A Window to the Open Society), where the social uses of telematic applications was presented to the society by means of a show, several talks, panels, tutorials, etc.

Key personnel and advisor . Mr. Leandro Navarro.

Leandro Navarro was born in 17.03.1964. He is member of the management committee of Comunicacio per a la Cooperacio, technical coordinator of Pangea, and professor at the Universitat Polithcnica de Catalunya. Since 1988 he has been lecturing at the "Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors" at UPC.

He has experience on distributed systems and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. He participated in the project ESPRIT 718, CACTUS on the implementation of a client/server electronic mail system based on the X.400 standard, he also participated in the Cost 14 (CoTech) WG2 on a CSCW environment (The MOCCA project). recently he has been Spanish coordinator and principal researcher in the ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6225 (COMIC).

In addition, he has been collaborating with several NGO and educational projects. From that experience and his theoretical studies on distributed systems to support group work, he was one of the founders of Comunicació per a la Cooperació.

Management capabilities:

The Technology Transfer Centre (CTT) is the unit at UPC whose function is to make the University's technological potential more widely known and to bring company and institutional R+D demand and the University's R+D supply together. The CTT has a personnel structure designed to ensure long-term promotional and administrative continuity within the framework of University's agreements, services, teaching courses and research teams.

Some of the services are:

Information, promotion of activities of technology transfer. Administrative and accounting management of these activities. Administrative assistance.

Guidelines and advice on the rights and obligations of staff working on projects, specially patent rights and intellectual property rights.

Guidelines to companies on obtaining joint financing of projects.

Advice on participation in multinational R+D projects, specially within the EEC.