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A new report by Lasa suggests that many voluntary and community organisations are still failing to maximise their use of ICT, and are struggling to engage with funders and policy-makers. We found that 90% of Lambeth-based voluntary and community organisations responding to our survey rate computers and the Internet as vital, but don’t back this [...]

Published yesterday, Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report gives more details about how the government aims to provide universal access to a minimum 2Mb broadband connection. An estimated 2.75m homes, about 11% of UK households, today have no access to a connection at this speed. The report says 1.5m households might get access to next-generation broadband [...]

The results of Virtual Promise 2008, the annual survey of how charities are using the Internet, has been published by nfpSynergy.  The survey results are available as a free to download PDF from here. The survey found that the most popular uses of the Internet were for: 70% fundraising and oter research 65% purchasing goods [...]

Rural areas of the UK are better connected to broadband than their urban neighbours, a new Ofcom report published here today reveals. England only summary here and full PDF (916kb) here. Here are the edited highlights: Rural vs Urban Across the UK as a whole, 59% of households in rural areas now have broadband compared [...]

A new report surveying the adoption of web 2.0 technologies by non-profit organisations found that “blogging was viewed as a sure, effective way to reach net citizenry”, whilst non-profits were “less optimistic about the prospects of social networking technologies to help raise significant monetary or goods donations for their organisation.” The report also found non-profits [...]

Abilitynet’s latest “State of the e-nation” report says social networking websites  – like Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo – are either difficult or impossible for disabled people to use.  In many cases users were not even able to register with websites. Facebook is described as “a professional looking exterior belies a range of accessibility [...]

We stumbled across this Wall Street Journal story on the 10 things your IT manager won’t tell you, whilst researching a post on IT security risks. The tips cover tricks such as: sending large files visiting blocked websites running applications your organisation won’t install clearing your Internet surfing tracks

Released today, Web 2.0 – More than Social Networking, is a research study conducted by Bournemouth University that looks at current levels of web 2.0 adoption and understanding among UK businesses.   The study suggests that misconception amongst managers is slowing down the adoption of web 2.0 or social media tools.   almost half of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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