ICT Homepage
Welcome to my section of our website. As the Regional ICT Champion for the North East, I support third sector organisations to understand and use technology to better achieve their goal of delivering high quality services. So these pages have been designed to help achieve this goal.
My day job is now focussed on an 'Improve Reach' project. The goal is to improve the support, networking and signposting services offered by infrastructure organisations to 4 hard to reach groups. These are: black and minority ethnic groups, refugee and migrant groups, faith groups and isolated rural groups.
I've tried to keep this section lean and functional to help you find everything you need to help you regarding your ICT issues. Take a look through these pages and do let me know if there is any additional information you would like to see published here.
- Useful Resources and Tools etc.
- Learn more about the Improving Reach Project
- Learn more about the Consortia Work
- A History and Background of the Regional ICT Champions Role
We have set aside a seperate page for the archived ICT E-Bulletins so that they may serve as a record and source of research for any interested parties. So please find these stored at the following link:
Latest News...
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26/06/2009
A Call for Help...
WATBus Community Transport are a charity providing wheelchair accessible and standard minibus transport for groups and individuals including: disabled,...
23/06/2009
A Call for Help...
I am going to trial how effective it is to post here any requests for help and support that I get. So if you're a support provider, keep an eye open...
16/06/2009
ICT Answers In a Box...
The ICT Champions have collaborated to produce a brand new resource which answers 50 of the most frequently asked questions about ICT. ICT Answers...
10/06/2009
Hard to Reach groups ICT needs Research Published.
After extensive research into the ICT issues, needs and aspirations of hard to reach groups in our region, the research reports are now available on...
19/05/2009
£20 million Learning Revolution Transformation Fund is Launched
The Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills have launched a £20 million Learning Revolution Transformation Fund to finance new projects...
18/05/2009
Revamp pending for online ICT Strategy Toolkit
The online toolkit which allows any organisation to produce an ICT Strategy free of charge is to get an upgrade. The Community IT Academy (CITA) are currently...
15/05/2009
What's this about 'ICT Answers in a Box'!?
It's to be a brand new resource from the stable of ICT Champions. It's just a couple of weeks away from being launched and if you're lucky, one may just...
07/05/2009
Free Laptops and Broadband for Community Groups
BT have announced that BT Community Connections is now open for community groups to apply for a free laptop and a year's broadband connection. There...
07/05/2009
Nominet announces funding availability
The Nominet Foundation I published some information about this in past e-bulletins but its release had been stalling somewhat, however, they are open...
06/05/2009
Prize Draw Winners Announced
Two prizes were recently up for grabs between the organisations that took the time to participate in the focus groups arranged to ask hard to reach groups...
Andrew Samuel (Sam)
Since the appointment of the North East Regional ICT Champion in July 2005, VONNE has developed this set of resources for the Voluntary and Community Sector.
As part of the national ChangeUp and CapacityBuilders initiatives, this site serves to provide frontline and infrastructure organisations with up to date information and resources for County Durham, Northumberland, Tees Valley and Tyne & Wear.
If you have any comments, suggested additions or queries about this section of our website, please contact Andrew Samuel (Sam), the Regional ICT Champion, at VONNE:
Tel: 0191 233 2000
Email: andrew.samuel@vonne.org.uk
For an overview of the Regional ICT Champions activities during 07/08 please take a look at this presentation posted on Google Docs;