"We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change. They didn't,"

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The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

We've compiled a list of twenty six buzz monitoring tools that are free of charge. Use these tools to keep track of your company reputation or even spy on your competition!

Thinking is a process where we have to: * create new connections * look for meaning behind the facts. * analyze in order to understand. These are the goals of SuperThinking!

The specifications * 9.4" x 7" x 1.4" for 2 lbs (with keyboard) * ARM Texas Instruments OMAP3 chip * 1024x600 8.9'' screen * Storage: 8GB micro SD card * Wifi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth * 3-dimensional accelerometer * Speakers, micro and headphone * 6 USB 2.0 (3 internal, 2 external, 1 mini) * 10h to 15 hours of battery life

Plagium is a service, now in beta test, of Septet Systems Inc. Septet Systems Inc. focuses on the development of innovative information search solutions for consumers, enterprises, government, academics, and healthcare. Much of our work is based on Septet's proprietary TX Miner engine, which employs advanced search technology for deep mining of documents on the public World Wide Web or within private repositories. The TX Miner engine is also the core technology behind Septet's patent-pending Personal Search Syndication, which enables anybody anywhere to build and post onto the World Wide Web customer search engines and Web directories (see www.k-sync.com).

a single, handy list that we think improves the computer lives of Windows users.

If you must use Windows at least do it intelligently.

The keyword is automatic. We have to find ways to short circuit the automatic execution of programs (good or bad), so that a hidden malware does not penetrate our system. The idea then is to change the way Windows handles the autorun.inf file. The methods expressed here are majorly for Windows XP.

The TechMatrix is a powerful tool for finding educational and assistive technology products for students with special needs. Learn what questions to ask and how to make informed ed tech decisions with our updated Guides. Via Kevin Jarrett

It runs better than any other browser and is built by a community of developers around the world who are passionate about improving the browser and the Web. Best of all, Firefox is free.

Educate is an iPhone/iTouch application designed to support teaching professionals in schools, universities and colleges.

ARKive Education is a free-to-use, multi-media resource bank for teachers and other educators. Making use of the stunning imagery available at the award-winning ARKive website www.arkive.org, ARKive Education provides downloadable, ready to use modules on a wide range of curriculum topics, suitable for geography, biology, environmental education and citizenship lessons.

Simple comparison of the netbooks vs. notebooks.