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Theme : technology
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Children and Young People's Home Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:The Impact on Attainment
Report by Professor Gill Valentine, Dr Jackie March and Professor Charles Pattie that explores the links between children's educational use of ICT at home and their performance and attainment at school. Based on research conducted in the summer term 2004, in 12 schools.
from : hannahgreen
9th August 2006
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Location-aware tracking could be new 'killer app'
...but users need to see the trade-off between privacy and delivery of location-based services, says new report
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Internet users challenge mainstream politics
Online interaction could improve democratic participation, say leading American cyberculture writer and UK e-government minister
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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3G Mobiles promise better London living
The public sector could deliver better services and improve political participation using wireless technology
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Low-carbon economy needs new regulatory approach
Ofgem should make ‘public value’ main goal rather than focusing on post-privatisation issues of price and efficiency, says new Demos report
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Digital TV will ‘undermine licence fee’
Government should address long-term future for publicly funded television during current BBC charter review, says senior advisor
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
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Open source disaster recovery
Open source disaster recovery
from : paulmiller
25th July 2006
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Harare 1 - Snakes in a Well
The third nanodialogue has just wrapped up. In Harare, we've spent the last two weeks with mushroom-farmers, brick-makers and water scientists, imagining the role that nanotechnology might play in their lives. The gulf between Western technoscience and applications for poor communities is far wider than I'd imagined. Ask people from Epworth - a Harare suburb currently recovering from Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina - what they want from new technologies and they talk about the rope and washer..
from : jackstilgoe
24th July 2006
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BBC NEWS | Business | Wage worry as Wipro profits boom
BBC NEWS | Business | Wage worry as Wipro profits boom
from : paulmiller
19th July 2006
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collective action?
I think pledgebank is one of the best examples of connecting individual's social concerns with wider action. This happens on the individual's terms -- you make a pledge and hope that others sign on.Tom Steinberg says "We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling..."Of course this doesn't mean that the pledges necessarily link individuals to government, but that is...
from : mollywebb
14th July 2006
