London Regional ICT Champion

I’ve just spent the last 2 weeks wading knee deep through the mangrove swamp that is policy and strategy writing, and it’s only now that I’ve emerged, blinking with relief into the winter sunshine of a February afternoon. Image with kind permission from Maritess Ynclino. All rights reserved. Before disappearing into the mangrove swamp of [...]

I’ve been in correspondance with prolific non-profit/social change commentator and blogger, Beth Kanter, about the adoption of so called ‘web 2.0′ tools in the UK voluntary sector. The discussion came about as Beth and fellow blogger, David Wilcox, will be hosting a workshop on web 2.0 tools at the Lasa Circuit Rider Conference in Birmingam, [...]

The Circuit Rider Conference, hosted at BVSC on 15-16 January 2007 is now booking. The conference offers 2 days of sessions including practical workshops, discussion of ethical practice and tools to enhance the Circuit Rider toolkit. Other highlights include Speed Casting – a 5 minute ‘edited highlights’ presentation from each project, affinity groups for those [...]

Matt Legg, my counterpart in the north east of England, has compiled a report on the ChangeUp funded pilot IT/ICT support project, Circuit Riders North East (CRNE), which ran across the north east region from January to June 2006. The project: created partnerships with private sector ICT support companies to provide 100 free health-checks; worked [...]