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THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Information Commissioner's concerns about ID cards bill
OPDM and e-government policy
FoI - update on progress
Literature matters
Digital Citizenship Workshop presentations
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Info@UK supplement on WSIS
Connect the World
PanAfrican ICT Localisation
Beyond the Information Society
Internet Librarian International
New ISBN standard
International Conference on ICT and Development
Information Society Workshop, Turkey
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
ICT and the blind and visually impaired in Nepal
Computer Clubs for Girls
Creative Commons and openDemocracy
Chinese government requires registration
Community information Centres in Ghana
EU DEVELOPMENTS
i2010
EC and Microsoft
EC and the Tunis phase of WSIS
Spain and open access
AthenaWeb
ICT spend in the European public sector to 2007
Analogue TV switch off
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
VoIP
Faking digital signatures
LSE research on ID cards
British Library Direct
UK Passport Service Biometrics Enrolment Trial
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
aUK
The Log of a Librarian
Web Design Challenge
UK Web Archive
EEVL Xtra
'Enquire' resource for library staff
Information literacy conference papers
Consumer Direct
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
e-Learning for management and marketing in libraries
e-Democracy: what's the big idea?
Better information better health: NHS National Programme for IT Annual
Report 2004-2005
Digital preservation in the regions
ICT fraud and abuse 2004
Computer Misuse Act 1990 (Amendment) Bill
Progress towards the knowledge driven economy
APPOINTMENTS
New Head of EC Representation in the UK
Results of IFLA elections
New Director of ITC for the Patent Office
New Director of Radio and Multimedia at Ofcom
AND FINALLY
Computers are history
Texting to health
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