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Digital Planet: 02/02/2010

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02/02/2010

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CrisisCamp Haiti; Eye on Earth; launch-pad iPad; techno-teaching in Lesotho.

Innovative aid meetings – CrisisCamp Haiti; The European Environment Agency's new online climate observatory; Apple's iPad – dawn of an era or yawn of the year?; teaching with technology in Lesotho.

Clark Boyd reports on worldwide online communities' aid meetings – CrisisCamp Haiti, the latest being held in Montreal; Jay Mukuro speaks with the developers of the European Environment Agency's new online climate observatory – Eye on Earth, which aims to combine academic data with local citizens' assessments; BBC's Mark Ward and Gareth Mitchell squeeze the pips of Apple's iPad; and ahead of next week's education-and-technology-themed programme, Gareth chats with the Moliehi Sekese, winner of 2009's Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards about teaching ecology with technology in Lesotho.

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