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This month's headlines....
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
UK Online monthly report - October
Lord McIntosh interviewed about libraries
Government next step towards open source software
Culture Online - first projects revealed
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
UNESCO - 'technology alone not enough to bridge digital divide'
New UNESCO ICT for education Web site
WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS)
Summit sets new level of stakeholder participation
WSIS youth campaign
Mosaic new issue available - covers civil society debates on the Information
Society
WSIS directory of resources
Human Rights in China (HRIC) excluded from WSIS
EU DEVELOPMENTS
EU and China unite for 'Digital Olympics'
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
The evolution of e-paper
6 degrees of e-separation
Internet is encouraging the young to get involved in politics
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
British Library new home page
Reveal - database of material for the blind
Building Knowledge Societies: A UNESCO Exhibition
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Achieving e-government for all: highlights from a national survey
Information architecture: designing information environments
Staying Legal: A guide to issues and practice affecting the library,
information and publishing sectors, Second edition
Annual report and accounts of the British Library 2002-2003
Local e-Government: a survey of local authorities
Annual report and accounts of the British Library 2002-2003
Local e-Government: a survey of local authorities
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Libraries @ the heart of the Information Society: IFLA Pre-World Summit
Conference
e-government for all: a virtual conference on e-government and the digital
divide
IADIS International Conference www/Internet 2003
Parallel lives: digital and analogue options for access and preservation
Open source in the public sector
e-government UK
Web sites in the public sector - fifth annual event
e-voting in a modern Europe
Information for all: culture and IST
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Strategic approaches to Internet research
Essential skills for information and library work
EU information on the Internet
Assessing the quality of information
EU information
Digital identifiers: bringing digital communities together
Information governance
Online information 2003
Internet tools for the advanced searcher
Government and politics on the Internet
Breakthrough thinking in knowledge and information strategy
Copyright
APPOINTMENTS
Resource appoints new Director of Collections, Standards and Workforce
Development
AND FINALLY
Government graffiti database - 'Operation Scrub-it'
Top 10 ways to destroy your PC
Scientists use PCs around the world to predict climate
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