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Internet in Britain 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3cu6sn
Internet in Britain 2007 - survey shows digital divide still to be bridged

Technology Review online video documentaries
http://www.techreview.com/video/
Technology Review online video documentaries
One Laptop per Child | Music-Making For All | Evolutionary Design | Global Warming | Smarter Prosthetics | Stem Cell Research | High-Throughput Drug Discovery | Artificial Muscle | Nanogates | Sociometrics | From advances in stem-cell research and developments in nanotechnology to potential solutions for global warming, Technology Review brings the impact of emerging technologies to life with an original mini-documentary series. These unique videos allow you to actually see how the technologies work and hear from the innovators who are creating them.

Free ICT Courses from the Open University (UK)
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=7
Free ICT Course materials from the Open University (UK)
T175_8 ICT's: information | T175_5 Working with ICTs: e-government | T175_4 Study skills for ICTs | T175_3 Introducing ICT Systems | T175_2 ICTs in everyday life | T175_1 ICTs: device to device communication | T171_1 Computers: bits & bytes | M885_1 Software development for enterprise systems | M882_1 Maintaining and Evolving Software | M150_1 Crossing the boundary - analogue universe, digital worlds | T180_3 Living with the Internet: Online Shopping | T180_5 Information on the web | T180_8 Living with the internet: keeping it safe |

The Journey Inside
http://www.intel.com/education/journey/
The Journey InsideSM is a series of online lessons for learning about technology, computers, and society.
This interactive resource uses Web-delivered video, audio, and other activities to guide students to an increased understanding of the world of technology.

Human Computation (online video presentation)
http://tinyurl.com/pe87y
Human Computation (online video presentation)
Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve.
Human Computation | Image Search | Captchas | Luis von Ahn | Carnegie Mellon University |

Goals of an Ethics Policy
http://noodletools.com/debbie/ethical/policytemplate.html
Goals of an Ethics Policy
An ethics policy explains your [school, library, technology, classroom] goals, values and program within the larger context of the [district, school] educational mission, policies and procedures.
By stating the rules and identifying the norms as lived in daily practices, the ethics policy offers explicit guidance about an individual's behavior and clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the institution and its stakeholders, the community and its members, the classroom and its learners.

e-Divide : Student ThinkQuest Project
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00036/en/index.html
e-Divide : Student ThinkQuest Project
The Digital divide—the inequality in access to information technology—is an issue of growing interest in all countries and organizations, yet the public awareness of the issue is low.
This Website discovers how the Digital Divide affects the young generation—people like ourselves. We hope to spread awareness of the Digital Divide, its causes, its implications, and potential solutions.
Discover the concept of the Digital Divide interactively through a series of animations, first-hand investigations, interviews, games, photos, and more!

The World is Flat
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266
The World is Flat
Video online of lecture from Tom Friedman (N Y Times)
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, Grandma Betty in her bathrobe will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home.
In Globalization 3.0, Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace.

e-Qaeda
http://tinyurl.com/dawm5
e-Qaeda: A Special Report on How Jihadists Use the Internet and Technology to Spread Their Message
Washington Post article .. includes an online video.

Activists use of ICT
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/citizen/toolkit/
Activists use of ICT
This area on Shambles "An Activist's Toolkit" lists many of the ICT and Internet resources used by activists ... for human rights, environmental issues, campus rights, working conditions etc.

Cybercrime
http://tinyurl.com/fexzb
Cybercrime | BBC Programme online
Viruses, phishing, identity theft - crime online is rife. If the Internet were a town, you'd move house. Some are even suggesting that consumer confidence is taking such a beating that the Internet could soon be unusable for commercial purposes.
Because Cybercriminals can make use of countries which take a more relaxed approach to online offences, the police are often powerless to do much about it. All that, however, may be about to change, as David Reid reports from Madrid.

Teens and technology (presentation)
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/63/presentation_display.asp
Teens and technology
This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings.
It looks at the growing role of technology in teens' lives, the way they use their gadgets, their expectations about how to find and use information, and the social consequences of their use of technology.
Romance in America | The Strength of Internet Ties | Teen Content Creators and Consumers | Teens and Technology | Protecting Teens Online |

Global Technology / Internet Trends
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/gsb112005.html
Global Technology / Internet Trends
On November 15 2005, Mary Meeker presented at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The presentation focused on emerging global technology themes. Below, we have provided a link to the updated presentation delivered at the event.

Looks Too Good To Be True
http://www.lookstoogoodtobetrue.com/
Looks Too Good To Be True
This website was developed to arm you with information so you don? fall victim to these Internet scam artists. Education, good judgment, and a healthy dose of skepticism are the best defenses against becoming a victim. Remember, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!

Cybercrime yields more cash than drugs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051128/wr_nm/cybercrime_dc
Cybercrime yields more cash than drugs: expert
Global cybercrime generated a higher turnover than drug trafficking in 2004 and is set to grow even further with the wider use of technology in developing countries.
"Cybercrime is moving at such a high speed that law enforcement cannot catch up with it."

ICT Social Issues at ICT GCSE
http://www.ictgcse.com/sub_projects/ictgcse_th_social.htm
ICT Social Issues discussed at ICT GCSE

Rise in public sector PC misuse (UK)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4076528.stm
Rise in public sector PC misuse (UK)
Computer fraud and abuse is on the rise in the public sector, a report by the public watchdog, the Audit Commission, has found.
The number of computer fraud cases has doubled, up from 8% of cases in 2001 to 16% in 2004.
The biggest single cause of IT abuse was workers looking at porn or sending suggestive e-mails.

The Journey Inside
http://www.intel.com/education/journey/INDEX.HTM
The Journey InsideSM is a collection of 35 interactive, online lessons for students to complete. The curriculum is divided into six sections: Introduction to Computers, Circuits and Switches, Digital Information, Microprocessors, The Internet, and Technology and Society. Many of the lessons include interactive Flash* activities, virtual field trips, and videos demonstrating the ideas discussed. You will also be able to use the other Intel Innovation in Education thinking tools such as Visual Ranking and Seeing Reason to further enhance your students' learning.

Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call
http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=84
The Tsunami as a Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide
So the next time you think about bridging the digital divide, put aside the academic debates of how many people have email access or which communities know how to use a search engine effectively. Instead, think of it this way: does everyone have access to the tools and information they need to keep their families safe and sound? If the answer is no, then you'll know that we still have a lot of work to do.

Cyber Ethics
http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/lessonplan1.htm
Cyber Ethics : A lesson plan for primary and middle schools students
What is a Computer Crime | Hackers Invade Privacy | Computer "Pirates" Steal Intellectual Property | How Can We Prevent Computer Crime | Code of Responsible Computing |

Technology and Inequality
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=3&DocID=348
Technology and Inequality
Purpose : To help students become more familiar with different types of technology, and to understand that not all people have the same access to technology.
In this lesson, students study briefly the history, evolution, and social benefits of the automobile (as a general model for the kinds of technologies that were once enjoyed only by those who could afford them). Though most technologies today are enjoyed by more and more people, students will weigh the reasons why technologies like the automobile, computers, cell phones, and others are not accessed or used equally by all groups of society. They will recognize that issues like high cost, special training, and limited need contribute to these discrepancies.

The Internet and Education
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/10/topics.asp
The Internet and Education
An overview of how today? student and parents use the Internet to do research, homework, contact schools and teachers, and also sometimes to cheat.
The Project surveyed 754 online youth ages 12-17 and their parents. Teens and parents report that Internet is vital to completing school projects and has effectively replaced the library for a large number of online youth. 71% of students report using the Internet at their primary source for their last major project, and they also report accessing online study aids like Sparknotes or CliffNotes.

Teenage Life Online
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/36/report_display.asp
Teenage Life Online: The rise of the instant-message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships
About 17 million youth ages 12 through 17 use the Internet. That represents 73% of those in this age bracket. A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that teenagers?use of the Internet plays a major role in their relationships with their friends, their families, and their schools.
Parents and their children often do not agree about the place of the Internet in their home. Many parents say they enforce time limits on their children? use of the Internet, but most teens do not say they have limits. At times, the role of the Internet at home generates struggles and arguments between parents and teens. Both generations agree that teens know more than their parents about the Internet.

Reproduction, Genetics and the Rule of Law +
http://www.fathom.com/directory/categories/9_technology_society.html
FREE Online Courses
Reproduction, Genetics and the Rule of Law | The Business of Biotechnology |

Technomania Series
http://www.turnpoint.org/techno.html
Technomania Series
The following advertisements were published in The New York Times. This is the fifth series in the campaign, which discusses technomania. The first ad asks serious questions about the current rush to spend billions for computers in schools. Subsequent ads in the series will discuss the social, environmental, economic, and human health consequences of various megatechnologies. Along with the picture of each ad you will find links to the groups who have signed the ad, as well as specific action steps that you can take. You can download full versions of the advertisements by clicking on them.

The Computer Delusion
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm
The Computer Delusion
There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs -- music, art, physical education -- that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum, and the Clinton Administration has embraced the goal of "computers in every classroom" with credulous and costly enthusiasm

Special Report on
http://lii.org?recs=021332
This 2004 report discusses "criminals' creation and use of e-mails and websites ... to deceive Internet users into disclosing their bank and financial account information or other personal data." Covers risks, tips for avoiding phishing schemes, and contact information for reporting phishing e-mails. Opens directly into a PDF file. From the United States Department of Justice.

Computer Crime & Security
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/compcrimetb.html
Computer Crime & Security

Computer Stupidities
http://rinkworks.com/stupid/
The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Complicate this phenomenon with a case of "computerphobia," and you end up with tech support personnel having phone conversations that are funny in retrospect but seem like perfectly valid motives for wild machine gun shooting sprees at the time.

10 Commandments of Computer Ethics
http://www.shambles.net/appendix/ethics/TenCommandments.ppt
10 Commandments of Computer Ethics - powerpoint presentation (140k)

Hands On-Ideas to Go
http://www.tve.org/ho/index.cfm
Welcome to the 'Hands On-Ideas to Go' website. This exciting multi-media initiative is back as part of TVE's award-winning EARTH REPORT series! Described by one regular viewer as "the best environmental programme around" we bring you information on what people around the world are doing to meet the practical challenges of Agenda 21 - the Earth Summit's action plan to save people and planet.
Be inspired to safeguard the environment - either by investing in an appropriate technology or by taking up an idea which might bring in some extra income.
Whether you're interested in renewable energy, enterprise, recycling or fishing, EARTH REPORT'S 'Hands On-Ideas to Go' offer something for everyone.

The Digital Revolution - Information and Communication Technologies
http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1375
The Digital Revolution - Information and Communication Technologies
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly becoming fundamental to our societies and economies. Access to the internet and telephones is expanding rapidly, knitting together markets, people and communities as it grows, facilitating the worldwide exchange of knowledge and services, and the movement of people and goods. (Source: Tomorrow's Markets)
Communication technology can revolutionise economies, providing vital access to information, markets and connecting the poor and marginalised to the world's business and education opportunities. However, there is a growing 'digital divide', a term used to describe the inequality in the opportunities presented by ICT and digital revolution both between countries and within different groups within countries: those that have access and those who do not.

Communicating for Change
http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1376
We live in an age of information and communication technology (ICTs) which is rapidly transforming the society and economies we live in. ICTs offer an unprecedented chance to connect the poor to people and business all over the world. Yet they remain on the whole excluded, which is opening up a digital divide. Communicating for Change demonstrates that this does not have to be the case, that technology can and is working for the poor, bringing benefits to wider sectors of society.

Net Cafe
http://www.archive.org/movies/netcafe.php
Net Cafe - This TV program features interviews with the Internet's most influential players and covers the growing Web culture and lifestyle!
Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Andrew deVries, and Jane Wither, Net Caf?takes you behind the scenes of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the cyber revolution, to meet the people and explore the culture of the "wired" generation. The show features Internet tips, a guide to best web sites, and the lifestyles of the movers and shakers behind the global information superhighway. Produced on location at premier cyber caf? in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Play It Cyber Safe
http://www.playitcybersafe.com/
Play It Cyber Safe
While the Internet can be a unique educational and recreational resource for children, it's important that kids learn how to use this powerful tool safely and responsibly. The goal of this Web site is to empower children, parents and teachers to prevent cyber crime through knowledge of the law, their rights and how to avoid misuse of the Internet.

Consumer WebWatch Angela Gunn column
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/gunn/column020918.htm
Most of us have an idea about how to be ethical in our regular lives. We started to formulate our ideas as soon as we were old enough to pay attention to our parents; it expanded as we made friends, went to school, and (perhaps) got religious instruction.
But for most of us, being online doesn't feel like being out in "the world" ?generally, you're sitting alone at a computer, looking at words and pictures. No one's around. Now who do you practice ethics on?
Angela Gunn is the co-founder of, and former Internet ethics columnist for, Yahoo! Internet Life and is currently the technology editor for Time Out New York weekly magazine.

Corporate Integrity Checkup
http://crossroadsprograms.com/corporate.html
Your company is highly ethical, of course! But what about your partners?
Put any (large) company through this free checkup to compare their ethical health with others. You can use the results as part of your due diligence process for partnering, or as the baseline measure for your own ethical fitness program. (The checkup is worded as if you are examining your own company.)
Rate your company against the following 25 best practices in ethics management. Answer according to your current situation, rather than the ideal or what you are hoping to become.

I, Cringely ... looking at IT Issues and Developments
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/
"I, Cringely" is a collaborative effort between Robert X. Cringely, PBS Online and Oregon Public Broadcasting. The views expressed in "I, Cringely" are the heartfelt feelings of Robert X. Cringely, and should be taken as such. That is why this column is called, "I, Cringely."

BreakTheChain.
http://www.breakthechain.org/
BreakTheChain - reduce junk email and misinformation.
Welcome to BreakTheChain.org, your source for common-sense evaluations of e-mail chain letters, helpful tips and advice on being a better e-mailer.
hoax | junk | email | chain | letters |

HoaxBusters : CIAC Hoax Pages
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
CIAC Internet Hoax and Chain Letter
Interspersed among the junk mail and spam that fills our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out of your system, and malicious software that can steal the computer right off your desk. Added to that are messages about free money, children in trouble, and other items designed to grab you and get you to forward the message to everyone you know. Most all of these messages are hoaxes or chain letters.
In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, we will discuss how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet.

Spams and Scams
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/beginner_no10.htm
Scam artists have always been with us.
Neanderthal families probably had visits from cave-to-cave salesmen hawking fire starters and forehead reduction kits. We modern humans have to deal with email spammers, unscrupulous Web hosts, and online fraud purveyors. Learn to recognize the signs of an online scam before you get caught by one.
IT | ICT | moral | social |

http-Tunnel
http://www.http-tunnel.com/
Web-toemail
Web to eMail is a service allows you to surf the internet by sending e-mails to our Web to eMail transfer service and receive the web site via e-mail.
In additional the Web to eMail service allows people in countries with strong censorship rules to bypass their web surfing restrictions and receive daily e-mails with things such as news from restricted sources.
HTTP-Tunnel
HTTP-Tunnel allows people behind restrictive firewalls to use previously blocked applications through their firewall.

Fraud Alert (usually email related)
http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/
The Fraud Alert pages have been set up in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad as a resource to assist in combating specific types of high value fraud.
Remember: "If it sounds too good to be true, then it is!"
email | fraud |

Kevin Warwick,
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/KevinWarwick/MindMachine.html
Advancements in robotics, particularly in optical and biological systesm are also speeding up intelligent machines' abilities to move, operate and be effective in the everyday world. Within the next 10 to 50 years artificial intelligence systems will have been developed - not only at Kevin Warwick's cybernetics department at Reading University, but also, for instance, in Japan. These will not only be more intelligent than humans but also exhibit a significant number of advantages; they will be faster, more reliable, quicker to learn and more robust.
IT | ICT | robotics | social |

Red Rock Eater News Service
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
The Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE) is a mailing list organized by Phil Agre. Subscribers to the list receive about five messages a week. These messages have no single format; they simply contain whatever I find interesting. RRE is not a discussion list.
These days most of the messages concern the social and political aspects of computing and networking.
IT | ICT | social | political |

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