London Regional ICT champion

The ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for business.
All the details of this round of the fund are here, where you can also download the application form and guidelines. The deadline for applications is Monday 17 September.
Paul Webster of the ICT Hub said, “We are looking to fund maybe 4 or 5 [...]

Here at ICT Champ Towers we’ve been busy Google mapping ICT projects supporting London’s voluntary sector. In order to keep it to a reasonable size we’ve only included circuit rider projects, ChangeUp funded ICT projects and Netgain centres that we know to be serving other voluntary groups – so if we’ve missed your project, [...]

Continuing the theme of terrible blog title puns started earlier, the August 2007 London ICT Champion newsletter is now out and reproduced here. For the curious, the only connection here is that we liked the song title, which comes courtesy of country guitar troubador Tom T Hall. Well, it’s different…..
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VOICE is a powerful web-publishing toolkit available to local councils to help their local groups, from neighbourhoods to schools, to create new free websites – and develop them using tailored tools and templates.

As well as posting content, news, documents and audio-visual material, VOICE toolkit users can easily add interactive eParticipation and eConsultation toolkit [...]

In the news this lately….
Google Pack includes StarOffice 8
Continuing the battle against Microsoft Office with its online Docs and Spreadsheet service, Google has now included a free, non-expiring version of StarOffice 8 in its free Google Pack download suite.
According to Google, the Google Pack version of “StarOffice 8 includes that includes all [...]

NCVO’s ‘The Good Guide to Working with Consultants’ is designed to help organisations in the voluntary and community sector select and make the best use of the right consultant for each assignment.
The guide is intended for everyday use and to help organisations with all the practical issues of working with a consultant, such as:

the recruitment [...]

Last in the current series of workshops. You don’t want to have to say you haven’t been to an ICT accessibility workshop, you are not going to be one of the crowd or even hip and cool. Any self respecting IT person should be in ‘the know’ and geeky on this stuff.
 Sign up for this [...]