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    British local authority spends £9,000 on Ipads for bin men




    Council decision to equip binmen with iPads causes stink


    A decision by Bury Council to equip its binmen with Apple iPads to try and save money has aroused ratepayer and tabloid anger.
    Earlier this week, the Greater Manchester council, which has to make £18 million in savings over the next three years, voted to spend £9,000 on equipping its 22-strong fleet of refuse collection lorries with the tablet computers from October onwards. The handheld devices will be used by binmen to try and raise recycling rates and reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfill.



    http://www.hrzone.co.uk/topic/techno...s-stink/113758
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    Tags: 000, authority, bin, british, ipads, local, men, spends
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    This move caused controversy and made national news. However the council seem to have thought carefully about this and have made a carefully calculated decision to carry this out, saying the £9,000 spent on the Ipads for the bin men will save £170,000.

    In this day and age of Ipads, Iphones, Kindles and USB sticks and the need to save paper and timber, I think we are going to see less and less use of paper and more use of technology.



    South Korea for instance is basically giving an Ipad type computer to all of its high school students.

    By 2015, students will be carrying digital textbooks in lieu of paperback books in all schools in South Korea, according to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
    Taking advantage of cloud technology, the ministry said that it will invest KRW 2.2 trillion (US $2 billion) to convert textbooks to digital with links to various multimedia content, establish massive servers and WiFi networks in schools, and provide free tablets for students from low-income families...

    While South Korea is the first to declare a country-wide plan to shift to digital textbooks, it shouldn’t come as surprise to see other countries follow suit seeing as digital content is slowly taking over traditional media.

    http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/07/0...-with-tablets/
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