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Anti-poverty week is from 12-18 October. On this page you can find a number of resources about poverty and related issues in Australia and globally. They include a selection of: recent media, recent fact sheets, recent reports and papers, recent local area data and various helpful websites. The link to the University of Adelaide's interactive maps showing public health data I found pretty interesting.

Although this work was published in 2002, it provides a thorough discussion of ICT as a strategy against poverty. Many concepts here remain relevant and thought provoking 12 years on. Harris investigates possibilities for ICT based education, e-learning, and life-long learning to forge "substantial improvements in the daily lives of millions of poor people". This work could be linked to Year 10 History and the Depth Study on Rights and Freedoms.

Education reaching children in poverty stricken countries through the use of technology.