London Regional ICT Champion

Some quick news bites from the bleeding edge interface of Government and civil society… Transforming public services Office of the Third Sector has recently published a series of documents as part of the annual update on the Public Service Delivery Plan: Working in a consortium Partnership in public services action plan Social Clauses Project Report [...]

Be the Champ: Following on from Pauline Baker’s recent retirement to enjoy grand-mothering, GMCVO is recruiting for a north west regional ICT Champion. Community First has also been in the market for a regional ICT Champion – they should be announcing the new West Midlands Regional Champion towards the end of August. Databases Uniservity is [...]

Like Alice Cooper said, “school’s out for summer”, except we’re still here bringing you the not-for-profit ICT news. Funding: Telecoms company Talktalk is offering £60,000-worth of technology grants to UK charities and community groups.  Not-for-profit organisations are invited to enter its second annual Innovation in the Community awards, held in collaboration with digital technology charity [...]

What should have been an important chance for the non-profit sector to influence the local agenda and how Capacity Builders prioritises its meagre resources instead became an exercise in apathy. Earlier this week we were at a major Capacity Builders’ consultation event in a south London borough  – to facilitate the ICT strand – and [...]

How time flies, time for the edited ICT highlights from the last week or so. Web 2.0 Lingro is a new collaborative dictionary and translation service that combines open dictionaries on the web with user contributions under a CreativeCommons license. Need to dynamically generate charts in web pages?  The Google Charts API will let you [...]

The London Infrastructure Development Plan (LIDP:08) was recently launched by LVSC and London Councils. The LIDP:08 describes the ChangeUp vision for London over the next 3 years along with action plans for thematic areas such as ICT, Advice, Olympics, Premises, etc. The plan for ICT envisages: 2008-11 London Region ICT Champion project to take forward [...]

Another round-up of ICT news that you couldn’t possibly live without… Organise that meeting: Organising meetings can be a real pain. Fortunately, there are several web-based services out there that let you create an event, manage invitations and even take payment. Mobaganda – based on Google App Engine – is the latest. It creates a [...]

Blame it on the early May Bank Holiday, but we’re back after a break with another round-up of ICT news for you to check out. Web 2.0 and social networking: Last week it was Facebook and MySpace, this week it’s Google with Friend Connect.  Google reckons 99% of web sites are not socially networked and  [...]

Hola! Another day in non-profit ICT…. Knowledgebase: Check out the latest articles on Mac OS X server, Microsoft licensing and telecom suppliers. Long-live the web: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect has admitted that the PC’s reign at the centre of the digital home and office is over.  According to PC Pro, here. Security: A [...]

Today we focus on security and privacy news… Web 2.0: We all use many collaboration tools for work and home – blogs, wikis, calendars, photo sharing, tagging, etc – and now Groups has created a service that lets you run all of your group’s collaboration tools from one Grou.ps domain using a single login.  More [...]