London Regional ICT champion

How time flies, time for the edited ICT highlights from the last week or so.
Web 2.0

Lingro is a new collaborative dictionary and translation service that combines open dictionaries on the web with user contributions under a CreativeCommons license.

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Mobile 2.0

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2nd July 2008  10am-4pm
Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube:  Holborn)
There is so much happening in the online world – how can we make sure that we are making the most of online opportunities?
This free conference for Cascade members will provide insight and ideas about how to use the Internet strategically. [...]

Capacity Builders has announced details of successful bidders into its Improving Reach Programme.  A total of £17,444,123 was awarded across the 9 English regions.
So far, the only details we have are those published by Capacity Builders, which shows a total of  10 grants totalling £2,374,550 (13.6% of the total) awarded to London.  Until we get [...]

Sometimes when we’re trying to learn a new technique or a new subject – a video tutorial – watching how an expert does it can be more powerful than web or print ‘how to’ articles.
Video tutorials offer a great way to concisely convey a lot of information that might otherwise take hours of writing and [...]

The London Infrastructure Development Plan (LIDP:08) was recently launched by LVSC and London Councils.
The LIDP:08 describes the ChangeUp vision for London over the next 3 years along with action plans for thematic areas such as ICT, Advice, Olympics, Premises, etc.
The plan for ICT envisages:
2008-11

London Region ICT Champion project to take forward ICT actions identified in [...]