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Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Internet awareness charity Childnet International has produced an interactive learning resource for parents who want to know more about the internet, so that they can guide their children through it safely.

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Charity Migrates From Linux and Cuts Web Publishing to Just Seconds

whitepaper Microsoft Partner Afkar Information Technology transferred the charity's Linux-based portal and the intranet to a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) wanted a Web environment for its...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

Upgrade or Retire an Old Computer

whitepaper Give it to charity? One knows how to set up a new computer. But what does one do with an old office computer? Hand it down to someone else? Throw it in the trash? Before one decides, take a few minutes to review the options.

Tags: upgrades and migration

[02 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up The reward money will be paid to a charity of the bounty hunter's choice. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Reward: £1,000. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints

Photo The reward money will be paid to a charity of the 'bounty hunter's' choice, once evidence is provided to corroborate their identity. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime...

Tags: national identity register, biometrics, id cards

[07 Apr 2008]

Millions of Britain's PCs going to waste

News Only one in 10 Brits claimed their discarded computer was recycled via a manufacturer's recycling facility and four in 10 said they gave their old computer to a friend or charity. Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill...

Tags: fujitsu, weee, waste, facilities

[10 Mar 2008]

Charity Helps Public Obtain Health Information

whitepaper The Wellcome Trust wanted to increase awareness of the Wellcome Trust's work to the community and help the community to understand key health issues and their impact on daily life. The challenge was to make the Wellcome's knowledge base more...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[04 Mar 2008]

Non-Profit Organization Makes Savings, Wins New Donors With Software Asset Management

whitepaper The Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) is a Singapore based non-profit charity. Dependent on donations and sponsorship from the community, AMP needed total transparency in its financial dealings.

Tags: asset management

[29 Feb 2008]

Satellite 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...

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

New Extranet to Empower Global Charity to Meet Exponential Growth Goals

whitepaper 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...

Tags: extranet

[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...

Tags: consultancy, projects, careers, management

[14 Jan 2008]

Charity Reduces Call Expenditure Through Cost-Effective Voice Over IP

whitepaper 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...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[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...

Tags: drivers, corporate manslaughter, face, ensuring

[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.

Tags: technology, creativity, management, responsibility

[03 Jan 2008]

CNIB Continues Its Communication and Collaboration Mandate With Unified Messaging

whitepaper 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.

Tags: application servers

[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.

Tags: green it, cio, carbon, purchasing

[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...

Tags: olpc, nicholas negroponte, $100 laptop, laptop

[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...

Tags: green it, carbon, recycling, weee

[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...

Tags: flash mob, byte night

[06 Sep 2007]

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