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CHILDWISE TRENDS REPORT 2009 For the tenth year, trend data from this proven leading industry tracking study is available as a separate, 30 page, concise report - providing the ideal introductory reference for information on children aged 5-16.

In the process of our recent research and planning for the Horizon Project, it became useful to combine the previous reports from 2004-2009 into a single PDF. The past reports are available individually for free under Creative Commons licensing from the Horizon web site and our NMC publications page), but as a single "boxed set" you can do keyword searches across all of the titles.

"All the R&D outputs from our projects, eg context, objectives, methodology, results from trials, lessons learnt, development potential."

In March 2010 the report Mobile Augmented Reality voor het onderwijs has been published. CELSTEC researchers wrote this report (in Dutch) for SURFnet/Kennisnet. It's a technology survey of augmented reality on smartphones and its possibilities for education.

The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC's annual Horizon Report. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, the NMC has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations.

"Prosperity Without Growth? says that the current global recession should be the occasion to forge a new economic system equipped to avoid the shocks and negative impacts associated with our reliance on growth. Ahead of the G20 Summit in London, the report calls on leaders to adopt a 12-step plan to make the transition to a fair, sustainable, low-carbon economy."

"The Accessibility Imperative" is the first attempt made to present in one comprehensive volume the challenges and opportunities of implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in matters of accessibility to Information and Communication Technologies. The Convention at large - and more specifically its Article 9 - creates the first universal framework specifically addressing these issues which affect over 600,000,000 persons living with disabilities worldwide

PISA provides a goldmine of data for researchers interested in many topics, and the OECD has just its analysis of Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA, which notes that "OECD countries [here's the list of them] have undertaken significant investments to enhance the role of technology in education. What are the results of these investments? Are they fulfilling expectations? PISA 2006 provides a wealth of comparative data to begin answering these questions ..."

"IST at the service of a changing Europe by 2020: Learning from world views"

"Efforts towards developing cross-national visions of the future of technologies on a per- sector basis have so far been largely absent from the European Research Area (ERA) in general, and consequently form the European area for foresight in particular. "

"On demand of IST Advisory Group (ISTAG). Aim of ISTAG has made consistent efforts to get a higher level of focus and a higher pace of development of Europe in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The aim was to describe what living with Ambient Intelligence might be like for ordinary people in 2010. Particular attention was given to technological and socio-economic bottlenecks that would hinder the development of a AMI in Europe."

The Well Connected City: How innovation in services and mobility contributes to sustainability.

We live in an urban age. The Future of Cities is a series in which the FT explores the appeal of the city and the problems that come with rapid urbanisation, such as health challenges, conflict, development and conservation

"Augmented reality (AR) is a new and unfamiliar concept to most of us, but one which you can expect to hear a lot more of in coming months. AR enables users to handle, and interact with, virtual 3D objects in real time - not by using a mouse, keyboard or joystick but as if they were holding them in their hand."