Who are we?
The International Telework Academy has its roots in the International Telework Foundation (ITF), an independent non-profit association, which was launched in 1995 under the auspices of three independent members. Since 1996, an international series of telework workshops has been conducted to promote academic research in the domain of telework and other new forms of work, and to encourage exchange between researchers and practitioners in the field.
The academy has held a number of workshops including the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Brazil, Canada and Greece. These workshops have resulted in the publication of several edited books of high academic standard.


What are our aims?
The International Telework Academy is a virtual organisation dedicated to:

• Promoting research in the field of telework and other new forms of work;
• Strengthening ties between the international telework research community
• Facilitating exchange between academic researchers, business practitioners and policy makers.

Membership is free and is open to all individuals with a research interest in telework and other new forms of work.
An annual International Telework Research Workshop is conducted under the Academy’s auspices.

Members of the Board
The following people (who are all on this ning) are the members of the ITA Board:
Wendy Spinks (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), Chair
Lefkada Papacharalambous (TEI of Halkida, Greece), Vice-Chair
Reima Suomi (Turku School of Economics, Finland), Vice-Chair
Andrew Gaudes (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Beverly Leeds (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Diana Limburg (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Alvaro Mello (SOBRATT Brazilian Society of Telework and Teleactivities, Brazil)
Geoffrey Dick (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Pascale Peters (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Svein Bergum (Eastern Norway Research Institute, Norway)
Jasper Lim (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Karsten Gareis (Empirica), Germany