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  1. Clues to Ict4d Policies in Developing Countries: The Colombian Example (2014)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Lecture by Diego Molana, Colombia’s Minister of ICT, about his country’s digital revolution which has seen Colombia increase the digital connectedness of its municipalities from 20% to 96% nd has...

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  2. Just How Do Macs and Pcs Differ? (2014)

    Director
    Brady Haran
    Subject
    Information technology; Technology

    In this short film Professor Tom Rodden explains just what the difference is between Mac and PC. (By PC the filmmakers are referring to machines running Windows or a variant of Linux). [7 minutes]

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  3. Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

    Director
    Brian Knappenberger
    Producer
    Brian Knappenberger
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $17.89

    Biographical documentary film depicting the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organiser and Internet activist Aaron Swartz who helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a...

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  4. Gardener, Dentist and the Long-Jumper: Ethics in the Age of Information, The (2014)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Luciano Floridi discusses his new book, ‘The Ethics of Information’. With the help of three metaphors, Professor Floridi outlines the nature and scope of...

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  5. Big Data: How Data Analytics is Transforming the World (2014)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 744 minutes (24 lectures)), £54.99

    Professor Tim Chartier presents an overview of the key concepts and methods to analyse big volumes of data. Examples include Google’s analysis of internet traffic to identify trends, how Netflix came up...

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  6. It Networks (2013)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 20 minutes)

    Computer networks are at the foundation of Information and Communication Technology. A good understanding of the main elements and functions of computer networks is therefore crucial. This program provides a...

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  7. Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business (2013)

    Producer
    Mike Hally
    Subject
    Business studies; Information technology

    Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate ‘open source’ computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how...

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  8. Internet Archive, The: Saving a Copy of the World Wide Web (2013)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship

    The Internet Archive project has set out to click on every online link on the internet and then saves a copy of what it finds. Since 1996, a representative portion of all of the pages on the internet have...

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  9. Code Breaker: The Alan Turing Story (2013)

    aka: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story

    Director
    Clare Beavan
    Subject
    Drama; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Docudrama directed by Clare Beavan that explores the life of British mathematician Alan Turing and the events that led up to his death in 1954, when he ate an apple laced with cyanide following his...

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  10. Out of Print (2013)

    Director
    Vivienne Roumani
    Subject
    Information technology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 55 minutes), £179.46

    The digital revolution is changing the way in which the written word is being written, published, sold and read. Former director at the Library of Congress and the UC Berkeley Library, filmmaker Vivienne...

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