<P> The Internet allows greater flexibility in working hours and location, especially with the spread of unmetered high - speed connections . The Internet can be accessed almost anywhere by numerous means, including through mobile Internet devices . Mobile phones, datacards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers allow users to connect to the Internet wirelessly . Within the limitations imposed by small screens and other limited facilities of such pocket - sized devices, the services of the Internet, including email and the web, may be available . Service providers may restrict the services offered and mobile data charges may be significantly higher than other access methods . </P> <P> Educational material at all levels from pre-school to post-doctoral is available from websites . Examples range from CBeebies, through school and high - school revision guides and virtual universities, to access to top - end scholarly literature through the likes of Google Scholar . For distance education, help with homework and other assignments, self - guided learning, whiling away spare time, or just looking up more detail on an interesting fact, it has never been easier for people to access educational information at any level from anywhere . The Internet in general and the World Wide Web in particular are important enablers of both formal and informal education . Further, the Internet allows universities, in particular, researchers from the social and behavioral sciences, to conduct research remotely via virtual laboratories, with profound changes in reach and generalizability of findings as well as in communication between scientists and in the publication of results . </P> <P> The low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills have made collaborative work dramatically easier, with the help of collaborative software . Not only can a group cheaply communicate and share ideas but the wide reach of the Internet allows such groups more easily to form . An example of this is the free software movement, which has produced, among other things, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org (later forked into LibreOffice). Internet chat, whether using an IRC chat room, an instant messaging system, or a social networking website, allows colleagues to stay in touch in a very convenient way while working at their computers during the day . Messages can be exchanged even more quickly and conveniently than via email . These systems may allow files to be exchanged, drawings and images to be shared, or voice and video contact between team members . </P> <P> Content management systems allow collaborating teams to work on shared sets of documents simultaneously without accidentally destroying each other's work . Business and project teams can share calendars as well as documents and other information . Such collaboration occurs in a wide variety of areas including scientific research, software development, conference planning, political activism and creative writing . Social and political collaboration is also becoming more widespread as both Internet access and computer literacy spread . </P>

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