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Choosing Open Source: A guide for civil society organizations

Developed by Commons and the APC, this guide provides civil society organizations with both an introduction to open source and a framework for finding software that will meet their needs. Designed to be accessible and helpful to non-profit managers and ot [Link]

Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of the Web on a Budget

A practical look at the specific things that smaller organisations need to do to best leverage the Internet today, with links to pro-quality tools available for free or cheap [Link]

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and IT Security

Presentation by Mark Brier from the Open SOurce Project at the National Computing Centre [Link]

Comparing web office products

Part two of the article looks at how the various tools you might use to start your own ‘web office’ compare. [Link]

Web Office Tools

Online tools have the potential to enable organisations to more easily exploit ICT and better achieve their organisational goals. This two part article reports on a two week experiment by Miles Maier to see how suitable online tools are for everyday tasks [Link]

Digital Unite Homepage

Britain's specialists in Digital Inclusion [Link]

Ten things that every nonprofit executive needs to know about IT

Excellent overview of the basics that management should know when thinking about ICT for strategic planning from the Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector blog [Link]

Web Design Process

I've been creating web sites for 10 years, and I've got much more successful at it over that time. And I've come into contact with lots of very clever and complex software development processes, many of which don't produce very good results. [Link]

Non profit ICT consortium in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland ICT consortium blog [Link]

NI Programme for Govt.

Priorities and budget 2005-2008 [Link]

ICT Hub Knowledgebase

The ICT Hub Knowledgebase is designed to help community and voluntary sector organisations access the benefits of information technology. The knowledgebase is a comprehensive source of independent ICT information and advice. [Link]

ICT Hub: UK

UK: ICT Hub [Link]

Techsoup: Learning Center

ICT help [Link]

Belfast Linux User Group | Google Groups

[Link]

LUGs, FSUGs, GLUGs in the UK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux user groups across the UK [Link]

What is 21CN?

BT 21CN Infrastructure [Link]

BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | BT investing £260m in NI network

Broadband speeds increasing [Link]

Ofcom research: nations_regions.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Media Literacy research findings [Link]

Ofcom's Strategy and Priorities for the Promotion of Media Literacy - A statement | Ofcom

[Link]

Ofcom report - Digital Exclusion

Page 15 for What citizens need to know. Digital exclusion, information inequality and rights [Link]



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