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ICT-WEB Alert
November 2011
- One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia, industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each individual involved brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project
To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
- New Scientist Space
Launched in 1996 and since extended to include three channels (Space, Tech and Environment), a YouTube channel, podcast series, regular vodcasts and 6 blogs, New Scientist online has over 2 million monthly unique users.
- Controlling The Real World With Computers
This site uses hands-on experiments to show the basics of how real things in the real world are controlled with computers. That means it's about most of the computers in the world. Most computers don't sit on desks, but are used to control things that don't look anything like a computer, such as factories, spacecraft, toys and appliances. This site provides the opportunity to learn basic control and embedded system concepts while taking advantage of the low cost and conveneince of using a PC as a platform.
- International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
Mission of IAALD is to enable our members to create, capture, access and disseminate information to achieve a more productive and sustainable use of the world's land, water, and renewable natural resources. To further this mission:
IAALD connects agricultural information specialists worldwide, providing platforms and spaces for information dissemination, exchange and knowledge sharing;
IAALD convenes agricultural information specialists worldwide, organising meetings and catalyzing dialogue among all agricultural information stakeholders;
IAALD communicates and advocates the value of knowledge and information to its members and others, improving the status and practice of agricultural information management and dissemination;
IAALD collaborates with members and other partner organisations, facilitating and catalyzing educational and other opportunities across agricultural information communities.
- AnswerBus
AnswerBus is an open-domain question answering system (QA) based on intelligent information retrieval. It accepts your questions in natural languages and extracts answers from the Web. Currently, You can use English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese as your languages.
- Merlot
Merlot -- the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching -- includes subject-specific learning materials and curricula as well as communities for sharing ideas and asking questions.
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
- iLumina Digital Library: Educational Resources for Science and Mathematics
iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses.
- LoLa Exchange: Learning Objects, Learning Activities
LoLa is
an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects. It contains materials for use across the curriculum, with a particular focus on modules for Information Literacy.
- International Engineering Consortium (IEC)
The IEC provides high-quality educational opportunities for engineering and communications professionals, academics, and students via events, publications and on-line education.
- Open Library
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.
- Malware City
MALWARECITY is a BITDEFENDER initiative for the software security community and a free resource for those interested in their online security.
- DistroWatch.com
The definitive Web site for Linux fans, DistroWatch.com keeps track of the ever-expanding universe of Linux distros with news, reviews, and downloads. Like many Linux-related projects, the site is indispensable to the Linux community and incomprehensible to most everyone else.
- MakeUseOf.com
This technology blog is one of the best on the Web at finding cool, free software and Web apps, and at providing walk-through tutorials for them. Whereas some blogs obsess over what's new, MakeUseOf.com emphasizes what's good. That's a big distinction, and one that its readers (including us) appreciate.
- ProcessLibrary.com
Uniblue launched ProcessLibrary.com in 2004. Written in plain English and free to all PC users, this Web site provides a unique and detailed online database that lists everything that should, and should not be running on your computer. In just over three years ProcessLibrary.com has already attracted five million hits every month!
- Internet Archive
This nonprofit site provides free access to a ton of great content, from live Dead shows to Washington Irving's Sketch Book. The site's showcase remains, however, the Wayback Machine, which hosts snapshots of Web sites throughout time-over 85 billion of them.
- AddAll.com
AddALL is a comparison shopping book search engine. "Search and Compare among 40+ sites, 20,000 sellers, millions of books."
- FindSounds.com
FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds.
- Factbites
Factbites is an encyclopedia crossed with a search engine. Factbites endeavors to pull facts from web pages or online encyclopedias and presents them in your search results.
- Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Group
The TLT Group helps people in educational institutions to improve teaching and learning by making more appropriate and cost-effective use of information technology without sacrificing what matters most to them.
- Zoho
Zoho brings full-featured office apps online. Along with the standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, the suite also gives users tools for note taking, wiki creating, project management, and more.
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