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[E-Government News] Recent research, undertaken on behalf of UK online centres by Simpson Carpenter, has found a helping hand is crucial if socially excluded people are to make the most of e-government. The research looks at the results of a pilot in the South West, which saw UK online centres working with selected local authority and central government websites to support customers in using them.

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http://www.intute.ac.uk [Intute.ac.uk] Social Sciences Online: TheWellcome Trust has most recently made a commitment to requireresearchers funded by them to deposit their articles in an open accessrepository (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX025191.html).On the other hand, the government’s response to the UK Science andTechnology Select Committee report last year which supported theestablishment of institutional repositories and the value of acomprehensive network of such repositories, failed to back the Report’srecommendations for funding to support the national collaborative workthat will be required and of mandating that research material should bemounted within the repositories. (See http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399.pdf or http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm)

[Informationpolitics.com] Information Politics | Blog | Funding for Digitally and Socially ...: Managing Director of UK online centres Helen Milner said: “The relationship between digital exclusion and social exclusion should not be underestimated, and by connecting people to technology they can be reconnected with society. UK online centres are already working in their communities with hard to reach groups, and this funding will help them make an even greater impact, getting even more socially and digitally excluded people online for the first time, learning new skills, and interacting with government e-services.”

[People.oii.ox.ac.uk] William H. Dutton: Non-Internet centric issues, such as copyright, privacy or freedom of expression, where policies exist, but are set by national or international agencies, such as WIPO, the courts, and legislatures. In these cases, the Internet community can comment on and influence debate within other bodies, but the issues are ”˜owned’ by others even though they have direct implications for the role and future of the Internet.

Rnib.org.ukhttp://www.rnib.org.uk [Rnib.org.uk] Resources - Web Access Centre: Legislation and policies relating to web accessibility around the world - Australia, Canada, Denmark, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, UK, USA.

[Blog.org] Blog.org by David Brake academic, consultant & journalist: By sheer coincidence on the same day I came across a paper by “Dr Neil Selwyn”:http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/selwyn/ in the September 2003 edition of the journal “Information, Communication & Society”:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html - unfortunately not publicly accessible (unless you are an academic with a subscription - if so look “here”:http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta;jsessionid=3ok9ubgqnr53e.circus?issue=infobike://routledg/rics/2003/00000006/00000003&index=5)

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