We have vast opportunity to invest in our children’s future through ICT in education.  Our responsibility, as the ICT community, is to listen to the challenges and ideas of our educators and children and be prepared to think laterally about affordable and reliable solutions.

Google Wave is being sold as ‘email re-imagined’, changing which part of email is where.  In email, the messages are the entities sent across the ethernet, mirroring the mental model of real-world traditional mail.  Wave, instead, hosts the conversation.

Companies have resisted home-based workforces in the past due to budget, communication, productivity and technology constraints.  The technology is now available and it provides a range of solutions to fit many budgets.
 

Most developers agree that reviewing code is an important part of (hopefully) reducing the number of bugs introduced into the system. However, the challenge is keeping your team productive whilst maintaining a code review schedule that gets enough eyes across the complete code-base.

In business, many in-house communications are time sensitive. Sometimes, a message needs to be shared immediately but in a relatively short period of time it will expire. Examples of this include announcements, status updates, questions and polls.

Micro-blogging technology provides a better solution than overloading email systems and clogging users’ inboxes.