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http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/ is a website that provides a small service to help educate people who do not know very much about "personal computers and information networks".

The purpose of this site is to educate people on the evolution of personal computers and IT. It starts off by giving a little background information from the evolution of using mainframe computers to to 'personal machines' used for communication.  It takes you through different sections of IT history and tells you what section you are in with this sidebar:

 

Each section tells you information relavent to the name of the section you are in. Significant people, significant inventions and events that affect the course of how our ICT is made up today.

The problem that I find with some of the sections is that it will give you a lot of jargon without fully (or not at all) explaining what it is.

 

The site itself is clear and seperates/intergrates navigation with the topic you are looking for well so anyone not familiar with the resourse will know where they are at with in the site.

 

E-Government & the Digital Divide

E-Government & the Digital Divide

What Is 'E-Government'?

E-Government is  ‘the employment of the Internet and the world-wide-web for delivering government information and services to the citizens.’-United Nations.

 

What is 'the digital divide'?

 A digital divide is an inequality between groups, broadly construed, in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT) - Wikipedia

Information access capability gulf that separates those who are connected to the internet and those who are not. -technologysource.org

National IT Services

The majority of libraires in the UK now have computers ready for use for the general public. They provide you with a free login and you have an hour per day to use the internet. This is helpful for the government because they can now send information to people quicker and cheaper now that everyone has access to a computer.

Quick Facts on how IT is being used today:

 

 

 For more information on national services visit: direct.gov.uk

Here is a screen snap from the direct gov website, this should halp give you an idea of the national online services they can help you with: