How low can you go?

What’s the lowest price you can find for a desktop PC?
The Sunday papers always have adverts for best value machines from the likes of ‘Dixons World’ or ‘PC Comet Express’ at the bargain price of £299, if you go to an on-line shopping site you can pick one up for around £230 (inc VAT), but [...]

Virtually at the High Peak of technology

One of the roles of the ICT Hub is to hold up shining examples of where technology is being used as a powerful force for good, but not to force that technology (or ICT) for its own sake.
As regular readers know I’m always on the lookout for infrastructure organisations such as CVS’ using new media [...]

Together in Electric Dreams

Was going to call this post “All together now”, but remembered Steve at Hastings Voluntary Action has already used it, so its a classic Human League track instead.

Whatever the song title the sentiment is still the same. Today – October 15th on Blog Action Day all bloggers and [...]

IT’s the BASIS

Colin alerted me to the BASIS round 1 announcement that came out a couple of days ago.
Out of the £8.3 million awarded at least £1.4 million has gone specifically to purely ICT projects – not a bad start and of course there could be more hidden in some of the other awards.
A quick rundown from [...]

More on Accessibility

Following on from yesterday’s post about accessible websites, over on the Popokatea blog everything you could possibly want to know (and some more!) has been pulled together in this post about free website accessibility testing tools – enough said, thanks Laura!
Friday night – blogging, beer and ‘Have I got news for you’ – I know [...]

ICT Hub events for all !

Last year some of you may remember the ICT Hub had a bit of a roadshow tour around the country with events in each region to get across the key ICT messages about planning, funding, local support, volunteers, accessibility, open source and new media, to give away our resources and to hear lots of good [...]

More Web 2.0 and some Accessibility

One for the CVS and LIO readers out there.
I’m always on the look-out for a CVS using Web 2.0 in an innovative way to reach their members. A number of them (such as Hastings VA) have blogs, however South Lincolnshire CVS are the first I’ve found using a Podcast of their newsletter.
The Knowledgebase has 10 [...]

Ruralnet 2007 – it’s all out there

Please help yourself.
There’s a great buzz at the Ruralnet 2007 conference at the Belfry, and its not just around the free ICT Hub guides – the buzz is around Web 2.0. The boundaries between blogs and websites have been well and truly blurred thanks to a session from Paul Henderson “aided!” by the East [...]