Since June 1999, UKOLN has worked with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, the National Library for the Blind and an independent library consultant on a major project, Reveal, that is part of an initiative to improve library and information services to visually impaired people in the UK. Reveal will be a webbased resource that will provide quick and easy access to information on the ran...

The term Information Communication Technology (ICT) includes any communication device or application. In malaria control, ICTs can ease communication, improve doctors’ training, and increase access to information by individuals and groups that are historically unaware of malaria. Successful malaria vector control depends on understanding causes, prevention, and treatment. This paper examines th...

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Recent technological developments have provided us with opportunities for novel ways of mediating and supporting different user activities by interconnecting different devices for distributing, broadcasting and accessing information. However, little is known about how best to design such ‘shared information spaces’ to augment current work practice and promote new forms of cooperative access to ...

Paralleling the development of the information society, European Union institutions are making more and more information available electronically. The progress of this process is reviewed. It is a process which contributes to the openness of the EU institutions. How effective are electronic media in providing access to information? It is concluded that the journalistic and library professions w...

Introduction. Sharing of information across cultural boundaries does not always live up to expectations. Information behaviour is an underlying factor, which can contribute to poor use or non-use of the information or information services at the disposal of indigenous people in a development context. Method. A literature study of information behaviour, cultural contexts and information technolo...

In this reply, we briefly deal with each of these issues. As Lawson points out, we cite Martin Paldam (2003) to convince skeptical readers that the economic freedom indicators provide valuable information and should be used more often in empirical research. Indeed, the change in the economic freedom indicator can be used as a proxy for the institutional changes and policies generally supported ...

The fast changing or the development of technologies induces the possibility to process the information in key moments in different locations. Thus, not only those who are learning need mobile tools for learning, but also the trainers need mobile tools for preparing the classes, for coordinating the educational activities. Using this background, new patterns had been developed based on its main...