Allison D r u i n & Kristian S i m s a r i a n What Happens W h e n There is Research Funding for New Technologies for Children? for the first time, there is a relatively large amount of multi-year funding to support research in developing new technologies for children, teachers, and schools in Europe. The reason I know about all of this, is that I a m fortunate to be a part o f one of these projects (KidStory) as a visiting researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology ( K T H ) in Sweden. At the end of this column is a listing of the 13 funded E S E projects with a few m o r e words o f information about each. So why am I telling you about this new activity in Europe? Because for the first time in a long time, those o f us who m a k e new technologies for children are developing an on-going world-wide c o m m u n i t y for sharing ideas and discussion. If our c o m m u nity is ever to grow and mature,
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