charity in comment and analysis
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment And while last week's event, attended by the charity's namesake, marked the £5m figure, Holway says the TLG is well on its way to £6m, with new members regularly coming on board. There are several charities that bring together the tech sector with... [09 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment See how the silicon.com team got on when asked to abseil down a building for charity. CIOs: high-fliers or heads in the clouds? Last week both these terms would have been entirely accurate at the launch of the annual silicon.com CIO50 list. [19 Jun 2008]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Alongside his work commitments Pavitt is also a trustee of Bar 'N' Bus, an outreach charity working with young people in South East Essex. In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was appointed as Group CIO for Transport for London (TfL... [11 Jun 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... [11 Apr 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]
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]
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]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment And is development best achieved by charity or by self-interest? The many schemes pioneered by Western tech powers to spread hardware and software into emerging markets appear to be well-meaning. But what are the deeper motives - and the best... [17 Jul 2007]
Simon Jennings
CIO Profile The only name on the CIO50 list representing a charity, Simon Jennings has almost three decades of IT management experience, including the eight years he has been with humanitarian aid charity Oxfam. Jennings has brought private sector and for... [06 Jun 2007]
Steve Williams
CIO Profile He is an advisor to the Local Government Association on e-government, a member of the Tyne and Wear New Technology Institute and chair of the Phoenix Group charity, which runs theatre workshops for autistic children. [06 Jun 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Want my tatty sofa?
Comment I'm just setting up a charity - The Rag Factory (www.ragfactory.org.uk) - to provide rehearsal, audition, location & workspace to actors, performers, film-makers, etc. A line in the FAQ on the Freecycle org website offers the following advice for... [10 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up One of the things Comic Relief organisers are looking to do in future years is put more content online to create a buzz around the biennial charity-fest. This year the charity hopes to crash through the £300m mark in terms of total funds raised... [16 Mar 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Follow me on my travels
Comment I would never wish upon anybody else the trials and tribulations we've been through over the last five days but I'm sure everybody out there, especially those working in IT, can find a way to help an excellent charity such as Computer Aid... [08 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up The best option for anybody wondering whether they should chuck their PC in a skip/river/whale's mouth would be to speak to UK charity Computer Aid International which will take PCs that are far from end of life (even if their owners have their... [02 Feb 2007]
Will's Web Watch: To eBay or to FreeBay?
Comment Why not give it to a charity shop or similar - unless of course that £5 really will make a major difference? The benefit of this site, if you're disinclined to go to the effort of taking stuff to a charity shop, is that it puts you in touch with... [02 Jan 2007]
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