London Regional ICT Champion

It’s been almost a week since the dust settled like a shroud over the last ICT Hub conference – held at the cavenous Kensington Town Hall Conference centre – and we’re just rounding up some last thoughts and bones for you to pick over. Keynotes: We have to admit that an air of fin de [...]

A big thank you to all those who took time out from providing technology support services to the sector to attend the first London network event on 4 February – the first of what we hope will be many network events and an opportunity for us to learn from each other. For those who missed [...]

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It’s a little known rock ‘n roll fact that – almost 36 years ago to the day – David Bowie started his 1972 ‘Spiders from Mars’ world tour in the inauspicious surroundings of the Toby Jug, Tolworth (long since gone) before going onto the rather more glamorous Carnegie Hall, New York. Obviously, we can’t quite [...]

It’s finally here – if you’re an accidental techie, a circuit rider or someone who supports the ICT of voluntary sector organisations in London – this is the forum for you. Join us for an informal networking session and learn about the great projects we’re each working on and get the latest on the wonderful [...]

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In partnership with BTEG (Black Training & Enterprise Group) the London ICT Champion is hosting a FREE half day event that will help BMER, refugee and asylum seeker organisations to get the most out of ICT Hub resources – such as the ICT Hub Knowledgebase and Suppliers Directory. Where and when: 09.30 to 1.30pm on [...]

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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, let [...]

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….. **STARTS** Here is your monthly [...]

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 [...]

Just for once you can’t say we’re not first with all the news that matters. The ICT Hub is today announcing the successful commissioning of a Regional ICT Champion in each of the nine English regions. The regional champions will enable the ICT Hub to work more closely with local infrastructure organisations and grassroots voluntary [...]