19/11/2012 E-Government

E-Government & the Digital Divide

Tony Blair has said that the he is backing "IT to support  business tranformation of government itself so that we can provide better, more efficient, public services." (source: e-government Unit).

In 2004, the Cabinet office report stated that the UK Government hopes to have saved £1.3 thousand million within three years by migrating its services into an online form.



As you can see from the chart above, the information given by the website shows that the UK Government has decided to go ahead with online services, apart from a few, all of the areas ive investigated have been done by most of the different websites.

Legislation and IT 10/12/2012

25/10/2012 Online Banking- Halifax/Barclays

 Online Banking, Halifax and Barclays

25/10/2012 Weather Information

The Five Day Weather Forecast

The days that i had got a forecast for were quite acurate, the website I used was BBC Weather. For the 5 days i looked at the website was wrong twice but not dramatically, only out by a few degrees. This would not affect how i would percieve the day however as it did not actually change the weather, for example, it did not say it will rain and it, infact was a sunny day.

In conclusion, i believe this website is quite reliable, however i cannot judge this to a high extent as it was only a five day forecast.

If i was going to do this task again, i would maybe try to do a fortnightly forecast with various other websites to see if it is just as accurate for a longer time, or if there is a better website that can be used to be more accurate

02/10/2012 Activity 10- Plan A Journey

Activity 10 - Plan a Journey

Travel by Car

The plan for this activity is to get from my home address, to Tottenham Court Road, London.
So far on Google Maps their are multiple options on travel. There is a car, Public transport, walk or cycle option.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=enThe first option i will look at is the car, which has said it will take 1 hour and 15 minutes, or in current traffic, 1 hour and 24 minutes. The cost will be fuel and Google Maps estimated at £11.90.





Travel by Train

The website i used to find out about travelling by train was National Rail.
The homepage has this section seen on the right which you have to fill out to find the full details of your journey. This includes where you are leaving from, where you are going and when you are going, plus other options like fast trains only.

Once you have chosen the options to do with tickets, you then get the option to which train you wish to use. For example, if i wanted to leave from Bedford Train station, to Tottenham Court Road, there are 5 options to chose from within the next hour, all with a different journey time.











The train i chose leaves at 1:18pm, with one change from St. Pancras Int. To the Underground service to Tottenham Court Road, this journey takes 1 hour and 12 minutes and costs £22.50 single fare (non return).














Conclusion

Both journeys take roughly the same time period, however the train is close to double the estimated cost of the car journey although the prices will change as it does not take into consideration what kind of car is being used. There are issues with using a car as roads are uncertain, for example, A road accident may occur and leave the journey stuck in a traffic jam. Also, the journey depends on what time you leave in the car, due to London being the busiest cities in the UK, a lot of people commute into London for their jobs, so a lot of traffic will be around the outskirts and inside of London if the journey was chosen to start in rush hour. In my opinion, i personally would prefer to get a train into London as driving in and around London is time consuming, bad for the environment and wastes a lot of money on fuel, even if it is nearly half the cost of  a train.

10/10/2012 The Digital Divide

 

Internet Usage in Africa

 

 

 

This is a map that i have created indicating what sections of africa has the most or least amount of internet usage. It can easily be seen that Africa has not got a lot of usage, due to the fact that it is hard to get access to the Internet in Africa. There is slightly more in the main Countries, like South Africa or Egypt. Africa, the continent, are in the LEDC ( Less Economically Developed Country) part of the world map as seen from this diagram.

This means that the Countries within Africa are a poor, or have less money themselves than the Countries in the MEDC (More Economically Developed Country) section. The countries are still developing and therefore may not have the funds to develop their digital parts, like internet coverage, mobile coverage or the amount of electricity available. As the Countries develop economically, the amount of money they spend on their internet will increase as they have sufficient funds that are not going towards certain problems Africa has, like poverty, a lack of civilisation and living space, and some of the countries currupt government system.

02/10/2012 How email works and Statistics!

 This is my how email works powerpoint
explaining how and the different forms of emails, viruses and the risks orf using email. I also had added my statistics link to the page which is: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit2/internet-access---households-and-individuals/2011/stb-internet-access-2011.html

18/09/2012 Lesson 2 Part II

 

This is the work on 'How email works' i sent to my peer, Andrew Adams. It is part of the task that i had been asked to do by my Tutorial.

18/09/2012 Lesson 2 Part I

Today work has been set to improve our blogs, exchange documents via email and conduct a discussion online. I have improved the blog slightly to include a querky application to make my blog differ from others.

Part II of the First Lesson

Also in the first lesson, we had been asked to search a celebrity and a sports perosnality in different search engines. The results concluded that many search engines come up with the same web pages on a broad search. For example, searching the celebrities name. We also touched on the National Statistics website (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html) which may be used at a later date.

Post over.

Part I The first lesson of IT AS Level

The first lesson of IT so far has been creating the blog of which I am using now. I have chosen a template for the blog however at a later date i will be editing said blog to look more professional and/or tasteful.