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  <title><![CDATA[Web access a “fundamental human right” according to major survey]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A major survey, conducted for the BBC World Service, has revealed that a vast majority of people believe access to the World Wide Web is a fundamental human right.

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  <title><![CDATA[Government drive to get 7.5 million more people online ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Older people and the less well-off are to be the target of an ambitious campaign to get 7.5 million new internet users online by 2014, Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain announced today. ]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5945</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[e-Skills UK launches IT call to arms ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[e-Skills UK has published a manifesto setting out the actions needed to ensure the country can compete in IT and technology alongside the rest of the world.
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  <title><![CDATA[HMRC re-trains 85,000 staff in IT security following huge 2007 leak]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Managers at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have launched an extensive retraining exercise for 85,000 employees, in a bid to avoid a future data security disaster.
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  <title><![CDATA[Bristol lightsaber event organised through Facebook]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Star Wars fans staged a mass lightsaber battle in the middle of Cabot Circus shopping centre after a covert web campaign.
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  <title><![CDATA[Social media rising up the agenda universities]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Higher education colleges and universities are capitalising on social media technologies in order to “support strategic and operational activities,” according to a new report.
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  <title><![CDATA[UK charity warns of continuing digital divide amongst children]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[ A UK charity working to bridging the digital divide amongst Britain’s schoolchildren has warned that children living in the poorest homes “may never fully engage with the digital economy unless action is taken to ensure they have home access to the internet.”]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Strategic Review cites access to technology as a core need in Fair Society, Healthy Lives.]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The report says a minimum income should allow people to consume a healthy diet, take exercise and have technology such as broadband, that enables them to maintain social networks. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Building spaces for the future]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[FREE event drawing on recent research by Futurelab about young people’s view of what learning spaces should look like in the future ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Google to launch instant speech translator for smartphones ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Google is set to launch a new smartphone translator tool that will be able to hear speech and translate it instantly.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5909</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Opposition to digital economy bill grows]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Government's proposed 'three strikes' rule would damage business, say hotels and public institutions]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5906</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Online safety push for five-year-olds]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Children as young as five are being targeted in a new online safety campaign by the UK body charged with protecting children from abuse.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5908</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[500,000 EU computers can access private British data]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Giant Schengen database holds a host of personal details that could be of use to criminal gangs]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5905</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Tories challenge BT and BBC as part of ‘100MB broadband’ pledge ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[If elected, the Conservatives are promising to deliver super-fast 100mb broadband by 2017, challenging both BT and BBC in the process.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5896</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Broadband users pay over the odds ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The majority of broadband users in the UK pay for download limits that they come nowhere near reaching, according to a survey.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Twitter Helps in Haiti Quake Coverage]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, social media site Twitter has proven to be an important tool.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[50 per cent of Internet users bank online]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[For the first time, the number of individuals using the Internet and banking online is over 50 per cent.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5861</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Intel's Reader, a boon for the blind?]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Can't read things? Photograph them with an Intel Reader and it will read them back to you. It could be a boon for people with limited vision or dyslexia]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Landline duty consultation launched]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A 12-week consultation was kicked off by the business secretary, as the government made moves to tackle the Digital Britain report recommendations.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trust gives green light to net TV ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has given a provisional go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV.]]></description>
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