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Information & Communication Technology for Non-Government Organisations

  • Networks / Conferences
NGO Technical eGroup New Yahoo list begun for IT workshop at QCOSS Conference Oct 2002 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oz_ngo_tech
ACTT Symposium Symposium - Advance Community Technology and the Third Sector - Brisbane Nov 2001 http://www.actt.webcentral.com.au/default.asp 
Conference - July 2002 Building Electronic Networks Community Networking Conference 2002 - Monash Uni's Centre for Community Networking Research http://www.ccnr.net/2002
COSSnet - Australian Community Sector Online Online coalition of the different Councils of Social Service in Australia (state & national) http://www.coss.net.au 
(Australian) E-Community Networking Association Newly formed association founded at July 2002 E-Networks conference http://www.ccnr.net/2002/ecna.htm;
  • E-Communities
My Connected Community - Victoria Supported by VicNet - Online Communities http://mc2.vicnet.net.au 
Brisbane City Council's eCommunities E-Communities site developed as part of BCC's OurBrisbane.com http://www.ourbrisbane.com/community 
US - Community Networking Movement Interesting resources re development of online communities http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet
Yahoo Groups - collaborative tool Very popular free hosting of automated email lists - "e-Groups" http://groups.yahoo.com 
  • Best Practice Guidelines & Standards
Best Practice - Legal Info Websites Excellent Best Practice guidelines for Australian websites that provide legal information http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/lisc/recommend/bpguide.html 
Federal Government's Online Standards List of different standards to be considered by Australian Gov't Dept's for online projects http://www.govonline.gov.au/projects/standards/index.htm 
OLAP - Online Legal Access Project Project at NSW Law & Justice Foundation - good up to date resources & links http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap
US - Benton Foundation Some Best Practice & planning tools for non-profit sector http://www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit 
  • Portals
Larry Stillman's Connectivity links Melbourne based - good resources for networking and accessibility http://home.vicnet.net.au/~larrys/work
community.gov.au - Australia's Community Portal Federal Government broad portal to the Community Sector http://www.community.gov.au
  • Government Initiatives
Better Service Delivery Program Homepage for NSW Gov's Better Service Delivery Program http://www.hsnet.nsw.gov.au/bsdp
Intro to NSW Gov's Better Service Delivery Program A descriptive introduction to explain this NGO technical capacity & collaboration tool http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/capb/information/bsdp.html
NSW Gov - Capacity Building for NGO's Information Technology Working Group - minutes & discussion papers http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/capb/information
NOIE's Community Sector page As at Oct 2002 this page was perhaps a good example of under-resourcing!! http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/access/community/index.htm 
  • Innovation
Community Data Warehousing Canada - Innovative electronic data collection for local level community services http://www.spcpeel.com/projIndicators.asp 
  • IT Resources for non-profit NGO's
Tech Soup Excellent US website for not-for-profit sector use of IT http://www.techsoup.org 
US - Idealist.org - Resources for Organisations Links to a number of tools for non-profit organisations http://www.idealist.org/tools.html 
Microsoft Australia - Software donations Microsoft Community Assistance Initiative - for organisations with tax deductible donations status http://www.microsoft.com/australia/empower/cai.asp 
Our Community Melbourne based company providing resources for community organisations http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/index.jsp 
Software - OpenOffice Suite Free Downloadable full feature office suite backed by Sun Microsystems http://www.openoffice.org
Software - eBase membership database Free downloadable database program to help organisations manage their membership (Win & Mac) http://www.ebase.org

 
 
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