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Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Cameron Green, green IT partnerships manager at environmental charity Global Action Plan, said having users turn off their PCs and monitors when they leave work, and utilising the energy management features of operating... [29 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News Military charity SSAFA Forces Help (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association) will administer the Operational Welfare Fund, which is sponsored by Littlewoods and Woolworths.co.uk in conjunction with the Daily... [15 Oct 2009]
Chris Hyman
AS Profile He plays an active role in charity, serving as a National Ambassador for the Prince of Wales' Business in the Community group, as chairman of the Prince of Wales' charity In Kind Direct, and a non-exec... [29 Sep 2009]
The perfect device for the developing world is not the PC
Comment The charity Living With Lions (LWL) has set up a programme called Lion Guardians in which the Masai place tracking collars on the local lions. We have the right hardware for developing countries - it's just not a PC,... [27 Aug 2009]
LEARN Brings IT Skills Training and Opportunities to Bangladeshis
White Paper The charity also provides start-up capital and technology training to young, local entrepreneurs. Since 1997, LEARN has made computer-based local wireless networks available to rural areas of Bangladesh. [25 Jul 2009]
CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
News The position involves delivering the charity's IS strategy and acting as ambassador for IT to the organisation's users. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with our regular... [30 Jun 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The group, composed of IT manager association Socitm, environmental charity Global Action Plan and IT suppliers Logicalis and CA, called for the fund in its report A Shared Vision for Smarter Services, which was launched... [29 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Alongside his work commitments, Pavitt is a trustee of Bar 'N' Bus, an outreach charity working with young people in South East Essex. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Cyberoam Secures Britain's Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability
White Paper London based Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (RHN) is a 260-bed independent medical charity which aims to provide an authoritative and academic approach to all aspects of clinical management of people with rare,... [16 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.05.09
Round-Up You came up with the idea that saved the company a million quid off the IT budget and you had the company logo tattooed on your chest for charity. Tooth or dare? You've bought your boss coffee every morning for a month. [01 May 2009]
Comic Relief laughing with cloud computing
News The charity - which also runs Sport Relief - has been working with cloud computing company Carrenza to design a hosting platform to support the biennial fundraising event. The charity is aiming to... [12 Mar 2009]
WWF wild about comms upgrade
Case Study Working with the telecommunications company Telstra International, the WWF moved from a complex and inefficient infrastructure of disparate internet lines feeding the charity's offices to a much simpler MPLS network. [09 Mar 2009]
Cloudy outlook sees Microsoft take Exchange, SharePoint online
News In the UK, Scottish charity the Wise Group is one of the earliest adopters of BPOS, with some 20 staff already using the suite and the rest of the organisation's 400 or so workers following suit in the coming few months. [02 Mar 2009]
Second life for 1,000 government laptops
News The Department for International Development (DFID) has donated more than 1,000 used laptops to a charity that will refurbish them before sending them on to the developing world. Charity Computer Aid... [27 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.09
Round-Up Earlier this week, a number of people received an email from the Blackburn MP and UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw begging for $3,000 to get him back home after he admitted losing his wallet while on charity work in Africa. [27 Feb 2009]
