E-professional or 'eprofessional' or even 'eProfessional' is a term used in Europe to describe a professional whose work relies on concepts of telework or telecommuting: working at a distance using information and communication technologies, as well as online collaboration (i.e. virtual team, mass collaboration, massively distributed collaboration), online community of practice such as the open source community, and open innovation principles. E-professional or 'eprofessional' or even 'eProfessional' is a term used in Europe to describe a professional whose work relies on concepts of telework or telecommuting: working at a distance using information and communication technologies, as well as online collaboration (i.e. virtual team, mass collaboration, massively distributed collaboration), online community of practice such as the open source community, and open innovation principles.