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THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
E-petitions in action
Most Wanted site crashes on first day
Local e-Services Take-Up Campaign
FoI helps the voluntary sector
The Private Finance Initiative
Public inquiry into Digital Rights Management
Child safety on the Internet
Digital geographic information for the NHS
Transformational government
Information and Communication Technology (ICT): activity of UK businesses,
2004
Extra money for eLearning credits
Microsoft / British Library partnership
Audit of learndirect
ID card bill
Outstanding libraries and archives
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
From the digital divide to digital opportunities
WSIS Phase II documents
After WSIS
Libraries and WSIS
Freedom of expression in Tunisia
Dhaka Declaration
Museums: Best of the Web 2006
Declaration of agreement: women and ICT
Educating the world's children: patterns of growth and inequality
The future of e-learning in the Arab World
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Benchmarking digital inclusion
Jodi Awards: call for nominations
Digital Inclusion Policy in Scotland
Digital solutions to social exclusion
The digital divide in Europe
Equity Campaign
Village phone replication manual
Welcome To Your Library Project
Inclusion through innovation: tackling social exclusion through new
technologies
African languages in cyberspace
Gateway - access for visually impaired people to all library services
EU DEVELOPMENTS
eAccessibility of public sector services in the European Union
eTwinning
e-Commission
eEurope awards
.EU domain name
Digitisation of European cultural resources
e-Government: Internet based interaction with the European businesses and
citizens Statistics
Funding for ICT projects in education
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
Digitisation in the UK: the case for a UK Framework
$100 laptop
Public services and ICT. Final report
NHS England extends BioMed Central membership
Moodle at the Open University
New journal publishing models: an international survey of senior researchers
Interactive Health Communication Applications for people with chronic
disease
Preservation of e-journals
BioMed Central's open letter
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
LISTA database free to all
British Librarian Bloggers
African Index Medicus
Gapminder
Inderscience journals
Area profiles
Google Book Search now available
Life in the UK Test
W3C in India
Get Safe Online
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Teaching, learning, and other uses for wikis in academia
The Internet of Things
Internet governance: a primer
ICT policy formulation and e-strategy development: a comprehensive guidebook
New toolkit for community radio stations
New technologies for literacy and adult education: a global perspective
Towards knowledge societies
FOSSFP Technical Essays Series
Internet factsheets
APPOINTMENTS
Library champion for England
New Finance Director at the British Library
New Chief Executive of The National Archives
AND FINALLY
Google Space
Eyeing the ads
Couch potatoes rule
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Northumbria University
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