London Regional ICT champion

The Big Lottery is consulting on the second round of its BASIS (Building and Sustaining Infrastructure Services) grant programme – and we all have the chance to get ICT on the Big Lottery’s regional agenda.
In consultation documents issued for BASIS Round 2, the Big Lottery Fund says it identifies LGBT, volunteering, carers, refugee and asylum [...]

We’ll be presenting a one hour ICT workshop introducing black, minority and ethnic organisations to the main ICT resources available at BTEG’s Focusing on the Frontline Conference, 9 November.
Venue: Haberdasher’s Hall, 18 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9HQ
To reserve a place please download the booking form (PDF) and return it with payment to BTEG.  For organisations [...]

LIVE BLOG READ FROM THE BOTTOM-UP:
And just because you can..doesn’t mean you should. It’s all about the story. And talking of stories, we close with the story of tonight, a live podcast put together on the spot by Mark. And then it’s “Goodnight Vienna” from me, hope you enjoyed the live blogcast.
Nick Aldridge [...]

Tags: sounddelivery, Web 2.0

Over on Kablenet, Liberal Democrat MP Dr John Pugh (nice open source web site, sir) believes that the government is unwittingly creating a Microsoft monopoly in its delivery of online services because, in many cases, the public can only access them by using Windows software.
In a Commons debate last week, Pugh went on to outline [...]

The latest issue of the ICT Hub Newsletter – focusing on wireless connectivity and how organisations are using it to overcome barriers and extend reach deeper into the community – is now out in the wild.
Download the ICT Hub newsletter October 2007 (PDF 98kb) (with thanks to fellow Champ Colin Harrison for sorting the [...]

Jason King has written an excellent post on a landmark US court case focusing on the need for retailers to provide web sites accessible to blind people.
The Disability Discrimination Act covers UK websites.  Abilitynet can give you advice and a free accessibility check of your own charity’s website. The ICT Hub publish an excellent free [...]

Tags: accessibility

NCVO’s Third Sector Foresight has launched a new site today bringing together a variety of resources to help voluntary and community organisations plan their strategies with insight.  Those looking for help with technology planning should head straight for the section on technology drivers for insight into lowering the cost of ICT, increasing access to the [...]

Tags: 3S4, NCVO, strategy

The ICT Hub has streamlined its new look ICT Forums to be more user friendly.
Discussion topics include accessibility, databases, ICT support, ICT management and many more.
Please feel free to start a thread, or introduce yourself in the forums.

Tags: icthub

Youth volunteering charity v is supporting a Virtual Volunteers project that encourages 16 to 25-year-olds to give their time by internet or telephone. The initiative is calling for youngsters to lend eight hours a week to help with projects such as designing a website, producing music or videos and promoting yoga for health and [...]

One from the world of free and open source software…
Free Software Foundation Europe and M6-IT  is running a one day event at The Hub in London on the 2nd of November to help people with with little or no experience of Free Software spread awareness of Free Software in their field or geographical area.

The [...]