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Efficient seniors' training using broadband technology


This report discusses the options available for training seniors to use computing technology by examining available computer literacy training being offered by ASCCA member clubs, and provides advice to computer trainers and students for efficient computer training.
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Digital inclusion: an analysis of social disadvantage and the information society


Technological change permeates most areas of society and many different aspects of our lives. The increasing utilisation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet, across all sectors of society has led many to conceive of Britain and other advanced industrial economies as Information Societies. While it is difficult to imagine that anyone...
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Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications - a review of progress in implementing the recommendations of the Finch Report


The Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (2012) – which has become known as the Finch Report - recommended a series of measures to accelerate and manage a transition to open access (OA) over an extended period that would be characterised by a mixed economy that would provide OA...
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Media literacy 2.0: a sampling of programs around the world


This paper offers a snapshot of the current state of media literacy programs. Introduction In 2009 and 2010, people coming and going in a collection of public places in Ukraine saw an unusual set of electronic billboards. “The person who uncovers that which was hidden–that’s a real journalist,” read one, against an image of a...
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Hear me out! Enhancing social inclusion and wellbeing for deaf and hearing impaired teens through an online peer support program


This white paper describes the outcomes of a project designed to examine the effectiveness of using broadband technologies to deliver a program promoting well-being and engagement amongst young deaf and hearing impaired adults. This white paper recommends: Broadband technologies continue to be explored by educators of the deaf and hearing impaired as a means to...