"ICT Connect" provides a manageable and flexible solution for teaching ICT skills across the primary age range. It is fully matched to the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT and offers opportunities for cross-curricular links.

ICT Connect provides a manageable and flexible solution for teaching ICT skills across the primary age range. It is fully matched to the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT and offers opportunities for cross-curricular links. The activities can be used on and off the computer, and the scheme is referenced to generic software. units for Years 2, 3 and 4 and 4 units for Year 6. Each unit has sufficient work for half a term. Each unit contains: unit overview; skills sessions; practice tasks; follow-up activities; review tasks; and unit assessment sheets. introduce and demonstrate to the class. Practice tasks and review tasks give children the opportunity to practice and reinforce skills previously learnt within different subject areas. The CD contains resources, some activities for the teacher to demonstrate to the whole class, assessment sheets, plus editable photocopy masters from the teacher's notes. Coordinator, will save these files from the CD-ROM to a network location, which a networked machine can accesss. This means that a class of pupils can run the activities at the same time. Instructions are provided in the CD inlay card and in the readme.txt files on the CD-ROM. r

"ICT Connect" provides a manageable and flexible solution for teaching ICT skills across the primary age range. It is fully matched to the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT and offers opportunities for cross-curricular links.

If the second half of the 20th century is the "age of information", Trevor Haywood identifies the last decade as the "age of connectivity", when the environments that we construct to share knowledge and stay in touch will become increasingly vital. The author argues that human interaction is the key to creating knowledge from information and uses international examples to illustrate his arguments, discussing issues as diverse as education and data protection along the way.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. This country document for Bangladesh is being available on the IMF website by agreement of the member country as a service to users of the IMF website.

ICTs have become a very powerful community resource, viewed by many authors in this volume as two-way mechanisms, facilitating the perpetuation of and reflecting esteemed community values. The contents of this volume make it clear that ICTs have a huge capacity for incorporation into different forms of community action, including social change, community learning, community connection, and community development. Through studying the papers in this volume, readers can learn about multiple forms of ICTs and action and how action is understood, and improve their grasp of the complexities of social-technical relations. The chapters in this volume began life as papers at the Conference on ’Community Informatics – prospects for communities and action’ in 2007, the fourth successful community informatics conference held at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy. This book creates a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and possible solutions to address the difficulties in deploying ICT in many contexts, and will be of interest to all researchers and practioners who engage with ICT, particularly those in the community and developmental informatics field.

What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of face-to-face connections. What will be the ‘glue’ that holds communities together in the future? To build better communities and to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places. Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for place making by reordering urban planning principles from prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can be realized or fallen short of in practical terms. Importantly, citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with each other and with government agencies. To measure the connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual quantitative and qualitative evaluation.