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THIS MONTH'S HEADLINES:
UK NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
MLA joins the Creative Archive Licence Group
Love Libraries
Digital TV in the UK
Silver Surfer Week 2006
Good practice guidance for online transactions and services
Free Our Data
EnrichUK
Comments on the future of the BBC
Encouraging young voters
Report on responses to the Scottish Executive Digital Inclusion Consultation
Evaluation of the Scottish Executive Interactive Digital Television (iDTV)
pilot
Directgov
Better connected 2006
Must read books
World Book Day 2006
The Future of Libraries
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Online platform for WSIS implementation
WWW 2006
Online Educa Madrid 2006
International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2006)
International Forum in Internet Governance
ICTe Africa 2006
We Media Global Forum
LATEST WORLD NEWS ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
World Information Access Report
Blogs for African Women
Gender, Science and Technology Gateway
Where there is no Internet: delivering health information via the Blue Trunk
Libraries
Visionary Design Award Winners
ICT4D: Context, Strategies and Impacts
Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible Websites
Chapter and Verse Campaign
EU DEVELOPMENTS
TEL-ME-MOR
'Broadband for all'
Consultation on European RFID policy
Electronic signatures
'Television is going mobile'
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NEWS
LIMES Project
Google and selling online access to books
Boxxet - your personalised Web page
Research fund awards
Google Scholar and the British Library
INTERNET RESOURCES (WEB, E-JOURNALS, E-FORUMS)
eProcurement Scotl@nd
Free Software Directory
An Introduction to clinical trials
Internet Detective
ICT4Pakistan Forum
Minister's blog
Election Alarm Clock
The Learning Index
Drug education web sites for young people
Wakefield District Community Online
Social science voices
evalued toolkit
BASE
Women's Online Safety Toolkit
Pacific Telecentre Online Community
Open Source Academy
Campaign Creator
The Textiles Collection
e-Bay rival?
NEW PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, REPORTS, BILLS, MANIFESTOS...)
Open access bibliography
Marketing with metadata
Knowing the need
Growing a business website: fix the basics first
Open technologies: catalyst for transformation
Tales from the public domain: bound by law?
Secondary leadership team toolkit
Networking for digital preservation
Making a difference
Do you believe in Web 2.0?
High-Level Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Marketing Library and Information Services: International Perspectives
Museums and the Web 2006 - Papers online
When the Net Goes From Free to Fee
Internet governance: Asia-Pacific perspectives
APPOINTMENTS
Call for trustees to the National Board of the Museums, Libraries and
Archives Council
AND FINALLY
Plant a tree
Quick reads
Distant Brits
UK telly addicts become Web surfers
Brain Training for Adults
Hencam
Oddest book title
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