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The medical industry is one that sees a lot of UGC. A search on YouTube finds thousands of videos of people talking about their illnesses, from cancer sufferers to people with bullemia. Support groups are flourishing and people are finding that sharing experiences and content online is sometimes easier than face-to-face. Talking about your experiences to video and uploading this to YouTube for others to respond to and comment on is probably easier than discussing it in real life. The internet and social networks probably offer access to a greater number of fellow-sufferers than even a local support group might offer. Beyond support, people can use social media and user-generated content to help understand their illnesses. The supposed danger here is that people will self-diagnose and that this may be incorrect. At the same time, you’d expect that privacy issues would prevent any meaningful and useful exchange of ideas. But in fact, user-generated medical content is a vibrant example of how the social networking and online communities can be powerful for exchanging information.

A report by Jupiter Research in 2007 showed that 20% of Americans turn to others online for information about medical issues. They are clearly not shy of seeking or giving advice, even on more personal issues. They use sites such as OrganizedWisdom, a Wiki-style community, to share information they have and get information they need. The concern over the accuracy of this information still stands, with worries about non-medical professionals sharing information that people use to self-diagnose. But research by the British Medical Journal in 2004 found that in the online support communities it studied only 6% of content was incorrect. If this replicated across all medical content online then it would probably be among some of the more accurate user-generated content on the internet. User-generated medical content shows that people are willing to share and are accurate when they do so. Even in a more niche and potentially risky area such as medical advice and disgnosis, the quality and usefulness of user-generated content is high.

The ageing population and privatisation of social services (Rytkönen 1995) may also provide new Internet based business opportunities.

More than one third of households in Finland already have computers, and host to population ration is 88.11 per 100 000 habitants, the highest in the world (TELMO 1998)

The question remains, nonetheless, how capable or willing the elderly people, or their helpers, are to use ITC

Research shows that only one out of three elderly people (over the age of sixty-five) are using the Internet. As a result, usability is a major issue. Vision along with hearing problems are a major contributor to the uneasiness many older adults feel. In direct correlation, this is one result of the many interfaces of the internet. Therefore, the demands of the new media on older adults are examined along with the physical and psychological changes older adults may have while using the Internet. Lastly, the article provides ideas on how changing interfaces on the internet will put older adults at a great advantage in the new media.

Older people frequently report problems with these tasks because of mobility issues, inconvenience, and fear of crime. Shopping, banking and even taking control of their health-care online, could improve these problems and allow seniors to play a more active role in their own social lives.

It is also working closely with partner countries and organizations to ensure broad cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

the increase has been most striking in relation to adults aged 55-64 and 65-74; the percentage reporting that they are confident has increased by 15 and 13 percentage points respectively

it is notable that the majority of adults in all age groups use e-mail.

Some members of the ageing population struggle to use ICT because of accessibility issues, this might be because they have failing memory or physical health. Others may just not be interested in using for example, the Internet. This might be because they see no added value in using the Internet, consider it unnecessary or feel that alternative channels are adequate.

eLearning country report for HUNGARYNational correspondent who has collected qualitative and, where available, quantitative information from national sources for this document: György Lengyel, Institut of Socioligy, HUNGARYIssue: Main suppliers of adult education (excl. employers) in the countryMain suppliers of adult education courses in Hungary can be divided into two major categories. There are institutes which are part of the national educational system:universities like Corvinus University of Budapest (Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem), University of Politechnics and Economy of Budapest (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem), West-Hungarian University (Nyugat-Magyarosrzági Egyetem) business colleges like Budapest Business School (Budapesti Gazdasági Főiskola) institutes which provide post-graduate studies like The Institute of Post-graduate Legal Studies (Jogi Továbbképző Intézet), Institute of Post-Graduate Medicine Studies (Orvosi Továbbképző Intézet) folk institutes like Association of Hungarian Folk Institutes (Magyar Népfőiskolai Társaság).On the other hand there are institutions which are not part of the national educational system:County Labour Centres (Megyei Munkaügyi Központok) which provide certain professions Accredited Language Schools, Adult Educational Institute which handles mainly the education of already employed people.

Olyan mértékű és annyira barbár atrocitás következett be, amely az egész világot megdöbbentette, és a NATO szemszögéből alapvető változásokat hozott a Szövetség működési módjában és az általa megoldandó feladat természetében. Jelen atrocitás az 1995 júliusában elkövetett szrebrenyicai mészárlás volt.