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The latest Information Society news stories are now available on our Web
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The top stories so far this month are:
* Local authorities 97% enabled
* Literacy Portal launched
* TV without frontiers
* What impact did WSIS have?
* Archive of development literature
* Google Librarian Newsletter
These can be accessed from:
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More stories will be added to the Web news pages at the end of this month
when the Info@UK bulletin will also be issued.
Contents so far this month are:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Better connected: aiming high
Statistics on library visits
Tightening up of the FoI Act?
Local authorities 97% e-enabled
Local Authority Website Performance Report
Clore Leadership Programme 2006/2007 Fellowships
Consultation on Ofcom's Draft Annual Plan 2006/7
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Preserving endangered Caucasian languages
Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet
Literacy Portal launched
Nominations for Online Shared Learning Awards
One billion users, and growing
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Call for blogger mentors
Digital poverty: Latin American and Caribbean perspectives
EU DEVELOPMENTS
Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication
TV without frontiers
Europe Direct going local in the UK
Retention of telecommunications data
Evaluation of EU rules on database protection
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
RFID in libraries
How women and men use the Internet
RNID's interactive texting development
Public Awareness Research
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
What impact did WSIS have?
The complete works of Caravaggio: An impossible exhibition
BBC news archive
Ethics observatory
Archive of development literature
Community halls one-stop shop
Children's Poetry Bookshelf
Google Librarian Newsletter
Tim Berners-Lee now has his own blog
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Election 2005: engaging the public in Great Britain
IFLA 2005: Report of achievements
Articles on Internet issues
The hive mind: Folksonomies and user-based tagging
APPOINTMENTS
Ian Watmore changes job
AND FINALLY
Million Dollar Homepage
Smell ID
Louis Braille's birthday
e-cards
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Sue Childs
Research Fellow
Information Society Research & Consultancy group
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
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