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This month's headlines....
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Office of the e-envoy becomes the Office of e-government
ID cards - costly and unreliable?
Goodison report - Resource to become a ‘one-stop-shop’
86 per cent of services now available electronically
Innovation report from the DTI - ‘UK will be a hub in the global economy’
Scotland launches culture gateway
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Amnesty International - freedom of expression in Vietnam
IFLA expresses concern over Cuban Internet policing
EBLIDA publishes position on the European Parliament Committee Internal
Market Report on intellectual property
World Bank Review on Telecommunications and Information Services for the
Poor: Toward a Strategy for Universal Access
DOT Force launches e-PolNet at World Summit
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
New ICT centre of excellence in Ghana
Mauritius to become cyber ‘silicon valley’
Zimbabwe to censor national Internet output
Mozambique moves to e-government
WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS)
World Summit ends with promises of an ‘Information Society for all’
After the Summit - views
Civil Society caucus presents its own declaration
IFLA, librarians and the World Summit
World Digital Solidarity Day
EU DEVELOPMENTS
European Commission pushes e-government
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
2004 e-voting pilots could be abandoned
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
Health information through digital TV
18th century Parliamentary papers online soon
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS…)
Freedom of Information Act best practice
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval, second edition
World Public Sector Report: e-government at the crossroads
Digitizing collections - strategic issues for the information manager
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
IDC’s e-government Conference 2004 UK: The e-government hype is over. Now
is the time for delivery
International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL): knowledge creation,
preservation, access and management
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Training the trainer: preparing library and information professionals to
train their users
Information Audit: identifying your organisation’s information and
knowledge assets
Proving the value of library & information services
Joining up services for citizen-centric government
Internet tools for the advanced searcher
Assessing the quality of Information
Breakthrough thinking in knowledge and information strategy
Training the trainer: preparing library and information professionals to
train their users
APPOINTMENTS
Resource appoints new Chief Executive
AND FINALLY
UK Silver Surfers’ day
King of the blogs
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