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Education
Obama launches National Information Literacy Awareness month 2009
Launch of National Information Literacy Awareness Month, which highlights the need for all Americans to be adept in the skills necessary to effectively navigate the Information Age. This new type of literacy also requires competency with communication technologies, including computers and mobile devices that can help in our day-to-day decisionmaking.
Digital Divide in the UK? / In The News / Obama launches National Information Literacy Awareness month 2009
The internet and the ‘e-solated’
A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four web refuseniks to go online to see how their lives would change
Digital Divide in the UK? / In The News / The internet and the ‘e-solated’
Danish pupils use web in exams
In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams.
Digital Divide in the UK? / In The News / Danish pupils use web in exams
Digital Divide in the UK?
December 2009
Martha Lane Fox, government's Digital Inclusion Champion, author and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron and BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discuss the digital divide in Britain and the risks and benefits of a digital society.
Challenges / Digital Divide in the UK?