charity
RSS charitySatellite comms to bridge digital divide?
News For instance, charity organisation Télécoms Sans Frontières uses satellites to provide phone calls, broadband access and other connectivity to people in regions stricken by disasters. The UN agency for information and communications issues is... [28 Feb 2008]
New Extranet to Empower Global Charity to Meet Exponential Growth Goals
White Paper Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world. For years, Habitat spent extensive hours fixing and adding on to PartnerNet to... [18 Feb 2008]
From CIO to consultant: One year on
Comment Maintain my charity work One of my main aims last year was to become more involved in my charity work with the Byte Night project. Christmas may already seem a distant memory but at least - with the help of some free range organic turkey and a... [14 Jan 2008]
Charity Reduces Call Expenditure Through Cost-Effective Voice Over IP
White Paper At the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), the telephone is a vital channel for delivering advisory services. Yet at many of its sites, its telephony services were costly and inconvenient. Keen to exploit the cost and efficiency potential of Voice over... [10 Jan 2008]
Work drivers more likely to snooze behind the wheel
News A survey by road-safety charity Brake found one in 10 people who drive for work confessed to falling asleep at the wheel in the past year. The charity is urging companies with staff who drive for work to ensure they have systems in place to prevent... [04 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008
Comment This occurs out of acts of charity, compassion, duty and management responsibility with the capable mostly helping the less so. Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. [03 Jan 2008]
CNIB Continues Its Communication and Collaboration Mandate With Unified Messaging
White Paper CNIB is a nationwide, community-based, registered charity committed to research, public education and vision health for all Canadians. CNIB depends on email, voice mail and instant messaging to stay connected to clients and the workplace. [18 Dec 2007]
Techies - clueless on climate change?
News And only 15 per cent of CIOs said they are planning to calculate their carbon footprint, with a further 38 per cent wanting to do so but not knowing how to calculate this figure, according to a survey by environmental charity Global Action Plan. [04 Dec 2007]
One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian government has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 units. In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to... [03 Dec 2007]
The A to Z of green IT
News A team of three from CNET Networks UK, publisher of silicon.com, travelled to Kenya earlier this year to raise money for the IT industry charity with a 400km cycle ride. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE... [21 Nov 2007]
From CIO to consultant: Time for giving
Comment Charity may be fine for billionaire philanthropists such as Bill Gates but what's in it for smaller businesses? Charity in a start-up? The problem of course is that charity is such a personal thing. In fact we were lying on the grass outside the... [27 Sep 2007]
IT charity employs flash mob tactics
News A flash mob descended on Potters Field, next to City Hall in London, this morning - not to protest against mayor Ken Livingstone's latest policies but to draw attention to Byte Night, an annual sleepout by the IT industry in aid of children's... [06 Sep 2007]
Video: Flash mob sleepers support IT charity
Video A flash mob descended on Potters Field, next to City Hall in London, this morning - not to protest against mayor Ken Livingstone's latest policies but to draw attention to Byte Night, an annual sleepout by the IT industry in aid of children's... [06 Sep 2007]
Portal to Empower Charity to Double Its Impact Within One Year
White Paper Due to the pervasive needs of Maranhao, FUNDAMED wants to increase the number of medical mission teams it supports each year and provide new volunteer opportunities through additional, non-medical services. [31 Aug 2007]
Reporters sue over HP boardroom leak scandal
News In an attempt to resolve this matter short of litigation, HP made a substantial settlement offer to the reporters, their family members and a charity of their choice. The fallout from HP's boardroom leak scandal continued as three silicon.com... [16 Aug 2007]
