• 'ISTs will improve job opportunities.'
• 'ISTs will improve the quality of home and work life.'
• 'ISTs will diminish our environmental impact.'
• ISTs will improve our family and community relationships.'
• 'ISTs will change the way we spend time.'

The assumption is that ISTs will change our lives.

But will they? If so in what ways, and how far? - The e-Living project intends to find out.

The e-Living Project formally ended on June 30th 2004.
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What's new:

• August 2004 - D13 (Final project Report) made public. You can download the report and its Appendix. Comments would be welcomed, send them to e-living-all@eurescom.de.


• May 2004 - D14 (draft book manuscript) made public. You can download Chapter 1 (Introduction), Chapter 2 (Trends), Chapter 3 (Environmental Impact), Chapter 4 (Social and Market Exclusion), Chapter 5 (Family and Gender), Chapter 6 (Work, home and Home-work), Chapter 7 (Conclusions) or the whole package (zipped). Comments would be welcomed, send them to e-living-all@eurescom.de.


• April 2004 - both waves 1 and 2 of the survey data now available with no restrictions on use from the UK's Social Science Data Archive (UKDA). Variables and data can be explored and analysed online using Nesstar Lite.


• January 2004 - slides used by the speakers at the project results conference published.


• January 2004 first suite of reports based on the combined (longitudinal) wave 1 and wave 2 data published. These cover uptake and use, environmental impact, social exclusion, social capital, quality of life, flexible working and analysis of intra-couple differences.


• January 2004 - project results conference (20th - 21st) hosted by RWI-Essen in Essen, Germany.

Coming soon:

• Spring 2005 - papers from the project results conference published as an edited collection.