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Scenerio: Consultants have a tough enough time managing a team when everyone is on site. Scatter your project members to various locations, and it's even harder to stay on track. One consultant shares his experience and the lessons he learned on the way to success.

IT consulting has its share of bad consulting. The scenario addresses trying to establish a relationship with a potential client who has been burned by an unscrupulous consultant.

Part 1 of 2: Database solution for a client from a spreadsheet.

The Business Software Alliance actively checks for copyright infringement/software piracy. Topics addressed: what is software piracy, corporate piracy, internet piracy, why a license matters, know the law.

An overview of copyright in the UK in a question/answer format beginning with "What is copyright?".

This website accompanies the book of the same title, a must read for ITGS teachers. The website includes lots of videos of robots in action, images of robots with detailed captions, videos of the author's appearances including a TED conference, a classroom discussion guide, and lots of information about the book including a lengthy excerpt. First rate material. Goes beyond robotics with excellent explanations of the technology.

Sandra, I really like this resource. Could you add the 2.6_military tag to it please?

Thinkuknow was created by the team at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre. Latest information and resources on the sites students like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Some games have interesting examples (i.e. email game).

Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.

Video: Greening ICT case study QuickTime (Duration: 8.05) Greening ICT case study from Queen Margaret University. Good overview of the problems and solutions.

Neerjaal is an Information Communication Technology enabled water resource management system for grassroots communities. It is about collation of ground water related content and information and management of water resources with the available information. The Neerjaal software facilitates generating, storing and making public the water related information in a village.  The core objective of Neerjaal is to contribute towards managing scarce water resources across communities in India.

Video describes use of computers to improve people's lives in sustainable ways.

Lots of resources on Green ICT, mostly pdfs. Useful for background.

Presentation by British Computer Society. Useful information.

Too complex for students but useful background for the teacher. Smart sensor networks - technologies and applications for green growth 12-Jan-2010 Sensor networks play an important role in tackling environmental challenges. Sensor applications in smart power grids, smart buildings and smart industrial processes make significant contributions to more efficient resource use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. This report gives an overview of sensor technologies and applications, and quantifies their environmental impacts.

Two downloadable reports on this page Towards Green ICT Strategies Measuring the Relationship Between ICT and the Environment

If you want to keep up to date with what's going on in the world of green ICT, take a look at The Green IT Review. This blog covers significant industry-related news, and highlights issues and trends, with a focus not so much on what happened today, but what it means for tomorrow. The Green IT Review is read by people in more than 75 countries across the globe, with a significant number of registered readers receiving news by email every day. News and comment from the site is reproduced in a number of web sites and publications in North America, Canada, Europe and Australia.

Lots of good advice on Internet research with links to useful tools.

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