The ICT Consortium is writing the draft strategy, however, we need your help to ensure that we have covered the most important aspects of ICT for your organisation.
This site has been developed to help you tell us what you think are the most important things for your organisation. If you think we’ve got it wrong, please tell us. This site is about open discussion of the issues around the ICT strategy.
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You can read and comment on the outline strategy using the links below or you can download a copy of the strategy as a PDF.
Vision and mission
An overview of our strategic vision and mission statement
Values and aims
The core values at the heart of the strategy and the key strategic aims
Objective 1 - A sustainable online resource
Build and support a sustainable online resource containing straightforward ICT information, advice and training materials relevant to the voluntary and community sector
Objective 2 - To optimise access to high quality ICT services
Develop a sustainable collaborative support framework based on the eRider model
Objective 3 - To increase access to sustainable support responsive to the needs of the voluntary and community sector
We aim to build a comprehensive ICT supplier directory to help organisations find the best provider for their needs. the directory will include customer reviews and advice on procurement best practice.
Objective 4 - To ensure that the voluntary and community sector can make strategic decisions on ICT
We will build a collaborative online directory highlighting tools and technologies that can help organisations achieve their goals.
Objective 5 - To promote media literacy and digital inclusion
We will promote the benefits of effective ICT use and management to organisation stakeholders including volunteers, staff, board members and funders.
The strategy looks very exciting, and if we manage to cover all this it would even impress the Bulgarians.
A few bits of feedback:
in Objective 5, is there room for a couple of words on accessibility (as per Feargal’s and ICT Hub’s caveat in his Web 2.0 post) and also your 8 ICT events seem to be relevant here too e.g. at the end of ‘ensure that individuals and organisations can take advantage of these new breed of tools and enhance 21st century media literacy…[add] - whilst mazimizing accessibility of information, by using the 8 ICT events and developing a suite of bite sized online learning modules.”
Aim 2 ‘ensure that VCOs are not disadvantaged by a lack of understanding of potential of ICT’ - could this be more positively couched e.g. ‘assist VCOs to fully grasp the potential of ICT and embrace the opportunities that it can bring’
Looking forward to 17 April, see you then.
Hi Michael
Thanks for the feedback. I think you’re right about beefing objective 5 up to be more direct about accessibility. I’ve added your comment to that objective as well, any other ideas about what we could add to it?
Also take your point on Aim 2, i think your wording is pretty good. Anyone else have a view on this. I think it’s important to not be negative about what we are aiming to do.
Feargal
The ICT strategy is looking really well and should help contribute to a more sustainable ICT outlook for the voluntary and community sector. The eRider model is of particular interest and should provide the ICT support needed by many organisations to ensure successful ICT implementations.
Here are a few initial pieces of feedback:
The provision of case studies is often a good way to lower barriers to entry as others see what can be achieved through applying ICT. Possible wording:
‘1a. Build an online resource to include information and case studies on topics …’
It may be useful to mention that we can lead by example as is already the case with this excellent website, blog and web 2.0 tools. Possible wording:
‘1b. lead by example by using a suite of quality free, accessible and open source tools’