Where the link goes, nobody knows

It wasn’t meant as a challenge, but Tony Okotie, the East Midlands Regional Champion has been doing some research into alternatives to proprietary ICT equipment. It can’t beat the Bristol Wireless crew on price, but this is a brand new laptop from ASUS running Linux, Open Office and all the FOSS software you could want.
To [...]

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 [...]

Sperical Objects

There’s a lot around at the moment about the 9 themes that Capacitybuilders plan to fund next year, so I’ll not go over that ground, however…
What amused me today is on the ThirdSector website there are two boxes, one a link to a quote by Mark Waddington of War Child - “IT is without doubt [...]

Old Skool

Its been nearly a month since my last posting on the blog. Hectic could describe the past few weeks, my work at NAVCA for the Hub has involved co-ordination and checking of the Regional Champions plans, their regional meetings and the other work NAVCA are involved with for the hub (SKiLD and the Unmet Needs [...]

Real life ICT in the Voluntary and Community Sector

If I was working in the private sector my OTE would be seriously dented after this morning, fortunately the work we do isn’t about closing deals or signing up punters - something which I’ve known for a long time, but something certainly the private sector … and I have to say something even within our [...]

That my friend is progress

Done!
Yesterday in glorious sunshine at the fantastic Genesis centre we held the last of the ICT Hub’s series of regional conferences - a point of reflection, but a time to look forward too. Since March 2006 we have visited eight towns and cities (Newcastle, Liverpool, Reading, Chesterfield, York, Cambridge, Walsall and Taunton) and welcomed almost [...]

12 December 2006

Today was a “Metro 10 page day” - thats how much of the Metro I can digest in my 15 minute train journey from Chesterfield into Sheffield, pretty average really. (As of today there is water in that cascade they have taken ages to build, and they have finally found a way to strip the [...]

Fishy Tales?

Well, I’ve confessed… owned up… had my first “group hug” meeting …. Yes, I met up with EmTee at the it4Communities awards ceremony tonight, it felt good to share stories of how useful blogging can be … and how inspirational blogs are (but please visit other blogs first to see how it should be [...]

ICT with a purpose - from the regions

Someone at one of my regional meetings* this week make an observation that’s worth sharing. He said “its only by going out of your safe environment, taking a step back, and seeing how someone else has tackled an ICT problem that you can go back invigorated to do it yourself”. Wise words!
For me, the highlight [...]