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THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Liverpool Direct
Council uses virtual operator
New public libraries attract customers
Winner of 2005 Libraries Change Lives Award
e-petitioner system
Scottish Parliament's FOI log
Costs of e-government
Digital Manifesto Online Consultation
The costs of hi-tech crime
Online centres and access to e-government services
Government Connect
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Thematic meetings for WSIS
Working Group on Internet Governance
Nominations for Memory of the World International Register
Global trends in e-government
Funding for Information Society projects
Third International Conference on the Book
Overview of domain name dispute resolutions
Computers and educational performance
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Digital divide amongst young people in the UK
Gender and ICT Policy Monitor
Debate on information literacy
Chinese library wins Literacy Prize
UK's digital divide strategy
Films on Women and ICT
EU DEVELOPMENTS
European IST 2005 awards
European Library News
European top level domain
e-government infrastructure services
Internet access via the electricity grid
Report on biometric technologies
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
New Google search technique
Accessibility audit of museum, library and archive Web sites
Benefits of telecare
DNS attacks
Open Source Academy
Information overload
ZoomInfo
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
London Portal launched
REDcom - Freedom of expression and the press
Museums and libraries Web site accessibility awards
Policy toolkit for cross-sectoral partnership working
Texts in Context
Free e-journal on open government
Designing libraries
Free e-journal on ICT in education and development
OurMedia
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential
Ofcom Annual Plan 2005-06
Supporting e-learning: a guide for library and information managers
E-Journals: a how-to-do-it manual for building, managing, and supporting
electronic journal collections
Civil Society and the multi-stakeholderism: discussion emerging about
opportunities and strange bedfellows
Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications)
Project
APPOINTMENTS
New Head of Product Development at the British Library
New head of MLA's Digital Futures Team
New Director General of Strategy at the DCA
CILIP's President for 2005/6
AND FINALLY
TV-Turnoff Week
Council uses e-Bay
Reading books for health
Water bottle antenna
Identity give away
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Susan Childs
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I-Society Research Community
School of Informatics, Engineering and Technology
Northumbria University
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