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When Cafelicious started our Digital Café adventure last September, we knew social media would be a big part of the experiment. I'm not quite sure what we were expecting to achieve. I've since learned this is a common experience for many businesses. Everyone says "You must be on Twitter!" but does anyone really understand why and what for? More - Social Media - What is it good for?

Since the snow has disappeared, it has become apparent that the damage it has caused to the roads is massive. The public are encouraged to "Tweet" Birmingham City Council and tell them where the potholes are. More - Tweet your local authority

BETT 2010 took place 13-16th January 2010, find out more about what it means for next generation learning. More - BETT 2010: Next Generation Learning

Hundreds of centres supporting ICT in communities will get their chance to bid for new funding, thanks to a new grant scheme being introduced by UK online centres. More - Learning in the community

The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT is evolving to address the social and economic needs of the poor. The study notes that, as 4 billion people have access to the global communications infrastructure, the opportunity to create innovative and inclusively tailored solutions for connecting the unconnected is extraordinary. More - ICT is vital to achieve Social Inclusion

According to the Government, one in four of the recommendations set out in the Digital Britain white paper have been achieved. Meanwhile, a new pilot scheme’s been launched that could ultimately offer help to the 11.6 million adults who lack the basic IT skills to get online. More - Digital Britain recommendations 25% complete

Rural communities and hard to reach areas who do not have access to next generation broadband will benefit from a share of £1billion of Government investment said Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson today. More - Financial boost to digital infrastructure

The Digital Economy Bill is currently going through the House of Lords in what is the committee stage; this week it had its first “line by line examination.” With 299 amendments having been put forward by the time of writing – midweek it was a comparatively mere 74 – some of them are inevitably in contradiction to others. More - Amendments to the Digital Economy Bill

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has opened up a three month consultation period to gather views on how the Next Generation Fund could best be used to bring Next Generation Access to 90% of the population by 2017. Estimates suggest the fund could reach as much as a billion pounds within that period. More - 90% of UK population to get Next Generation Access by 2017?