People Connections
Neighborhood Portals: How can you get truly local information on the World Wide Web?
IOTA Interview: Jack
Griffin , an entrepeneur from Palo Alto, California.
Virtual Volunteers: How people are finding volunteer opportunities online.
IOTA Interview: David
Carter, Director, Internet Public Library.
Environment:
How can the Internet connect people who want to help preserve their water resources?
IOTA Interview: Barb
Farrah, Director of Community Relations for Wayne County, Michigan.
Religion Online:
How are religious institutions using the Internet to expand the ways in which people
congregate?
IOTA Interview: David
Bodenhamer, Executive Director of the Polis Center.
Senior Citizens & the Internet: How have older people been interacting with the World Wide Web - and
how can you get your aging parents online?
IOTA Interview: Wendy
Rogers, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology.
New Americans: How can libraries use the Internet to serve the needs of some of their
most frequent patrons, immigrants?
IOTA Interview: Gary
Strong, Director of the Queens Public Library.
Online Auctions:
What are the advantages of auctions on the Internet?
Have you seen? The Michigan AuctionBot is currently being modified,
but you can get a sense of what it's all about at the AuctionBot site.
The AuctionBot site has a sub-site of Auction-Related Material on the
World-Wide Web.
AuctionBot was a project developed by the Artifical Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Michigan.
Did you know? eBay,
the most popular consumer auction on the Internet, holds more than 500,000 new auctions a
day.
IOTA Interview: Michael
Wellman,professor of computer science at the University of Michigan.
Computer Dependency: Are we too dependent on computers?
Have you thought about? The consequences of our growing reliance on
computers?
Have you seen? The full text of Professor Gene Rochlin's book on
computer dependency, Trapped in the Net.
IOTA Interview: Gene
Rochlin, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.
Adaptive Technologies: How can the Internet open doors for people with disabilities?
Have you thought about? Computers can remove some barriers for
people with disabilities, while creating others.
Have you seen? The Bobby site, named for the British police, looks over
your Web pages and flags potential problems for users with disabilities.
Blacksburg Electronic Village: What happens when an entire town is wired to the Internet?
Did you know? Four out of five people in Blacksburg, Virginia are
connected to the Internet.
Have you seen? The Blacksburg
Electronic Village site. |
