I’ve long been a technology promoter and an advocate, particularly, of all web based applications. It’s interesting how IT / web literate people are these days and how that growing IT / web literacy impacts in the most unexpected areas of your everyday life.  Here’s a couple of examples from my humdrum life; last week I renewed my Car tax completely online. Instead of getting all the documents together and shuffling off to queue in the Post Office only to find when you eventually get to the front, the woman in the cage says “this insurance document is for the wrong car” or something like that……..aaaarrrgghhh!!! No, I simply type in my vehicle number and the website back-end technology goes off and checks if I’ve got a current MOT (I do) and if I’ve got current insurance (I do) and then having passed that quality threshhold satisfactorily - it takes my payment electronically and a few days later my new road tax disc turns up in the post.  Job done!
 
Another recent example of pushing-the-envelope with IT / web literacy I became aware of was when Comic Relief turned this to their advantage when they  used their website to help raise even more money - but also to get their hands on it quicker.  (more…)