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Connecting the countryside |
| 25% of all the 6,000 UK online centres in England and 23% of those supported by Capital Modernisation Funding (CMF), are in rural areas. A new report jointly funded by the Department for Education and Skills and the Countryside Commission evaluated the CMF-funded UK Online Centres to assess their effectiveness, both as individual centres and collectively in supporting rural populations. | |
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Smart Government Forum |
| Smart Cards and their use with kiosks was a key theme of the Smart Government Forum meeting held on 2 December. | |
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Transport Direct |
| Transport Direct - a revolutionary new one-stop portal for all transport information - is due to go live early in 2004. Development of a national gazetteer, and extensive usability testing have been key elements in the development of the project. | |
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Escrow Agreements |
| As organisations recognise the critical and irreplaceable value of information they hold, issues around information security and recovery planning are increasingly to the fore. Jon Leigh looks at the role escrow agreements can play and what to look out for when one is being considered. | |
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LAWs - the Local Authority Websites National Project |
| Help is at hand for all council websites, particularly those in smaller less well-resourced authorities, in coming to terms with the implications of the e-agenda and the 2005 targets. Elizabeth Dutton outlines progress by the LAWS project in delivering the key support elements. | |
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Easy DOIs It? |
| In August 2003 the ten millionth Digital Object Identifier was assigned, offering a persistent, interoperable and extensible identifier to a technical article. Use of DOIs is now widespread and growing, with examples assigned to books, images and technical reports. Dave Thompson provides a brief overview of the background and some of the implications. | |
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