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	Government Technology URL: http://www.govtech.net/ ODP description: News, publications, conferences, and case studies about using technology in state and local government. Page title: Government Technology: The Tech and Security Information Magazine for International, State, Local, and City E-Government Page description: Government Technology online magazine provides information technology case studies for the public sector, egovernment, and state IT solutions.
	Technology Watch Centre URL: http://www.nsf.ac.lk/adbmost/twc/twc.htm ODP description: The Technology Watch Center (TWC) an organization within the National Science Foundation under the auspices of the Science and Technology Personnel Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
	Fathom URL: http://www.fathom.com/index.html ODP description: Interactive knowledge organization, combining major world wide universities who manage this searchable database. Project is presently launching. Page title: Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
	Potomac Institute URL: http://www.potomacinstitute.org/ ODP description: A not-for-profit public policy research institute located in Arlington, Virginia and focusing on key science and technology issues facing society. Page title: Potomac Institute For Policy Studies
	Scientists For Global Responsibility URL: http://www.sgr.org.uk ODP description: Explores the ethical dimension of scientific research and technology: ethical controversies, global energy and resource issues, alternative technologies, and global population and consumption. Page title: Scientists for Global Responsibility - Index Page
	A Survey Of Technology In Cities URL: http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/urb_age/fall98/techno.html ODP description: Article by Nigel Harris, published in Urgan Age magazine, discusses how advancing technologies will affect cities. Page title: Haiti
	The Loka Institute URL: http://www.loka.org/ ODP description: Non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of research, science and technology. Page title: Loka Index
	Pragmatic and Dogmatic Physics; Presentation and Response in URL: http://www.geocities.com/pragmaticdogmatic/index.html ODP description: A report concerned with the analysis of one particular article that a German physicist published in Nature in 1938, the background of its publication and the response to it. The article had antisemitic aspects even as it was an article about scientific research. Page title: Untitled Document
	Africa in a High-Technology Millennium URL: http://www.emeagwali.com/interviews/millennium/BBC-network-africa-questions-on-emerging-millennial-technology.html ODP description: British Broadcasting Corporation interviews Nigerian computer and Internet pioneer, Philip Emeagwali, on what science and technology can do for Africa in the Information Age. Page title: Technology as a Tool for Integrating Africa into the 21st Century Global Economy Page description: The Brain Drain of African Scientists
	Technology Making It Worse URL: http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm ODP description: How the second Industrial Revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community. Page description: A description of how technology has changed from a powerful servant into a terrifying tyrant that is paralysing and impoverishing the community.