As another Thursday morning rolls around and I once more overdose on coffee, it's time for the obligatory run-down of what's in this week's Online supplement.
We start with an article on the new trend for citizen mapping - people using technology to make maps on their own. In Britain, where most geographical data is owned by commercial interests, this is increasingly important: "Armed with cheap satellite-tracking handsets, teams of civilian surveyors are out in the field recording casual journeys and sharing geodata with each other to produce their own maps. Their aim is to build a set of people's maps: charted and owned by those who create them, which are as free to share as the open road."
With the general election looming, Michael Cross examines the government's new government's new digital plans and wonders whether the IT industry will be voting Labour. Outside of party politics, we travel to Kenya to take a look at an initiative to recycle Britain's used computers, placing them in schools desperate not to miss out on IT training.
