It’s not just government agencies which manage to lose important data. Kablenet reports that a laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, with up to 60,000 client records. However, the data is protected by three levels of security, …
Charities and other voluntary organisations are to get the chance to use Ordnance Survey maps in web applications for non-commercial purposes. Technology Guardian reports: Ordnance Survey’s OpenSpace product is a “slippy map” interface, a piece of software that allows users to place any kind of information with a geographic reference …
And while we’re on human rights, a posting on judging Best Use of the Social Web by a Nonprofit comes up with some innovative uses in the field – the use of Twitter by activists to let people know whether they’ve been arrested or disappeared and “the courageous use of …
Amnesty International has a “new, completely re-architected, W3C Web Content Accessibility-compliant, data protection law and privacy legislation-compliant, multi-lingual and totally open source Drupal, CiviCRM and Alfresco-based website”. That’s according to Important Projects consultancy, who had something to do with it. Not everyone will like the bright yellow backing to headlines, …
It can be fun trying to keep a track of thinking around online communities and effective ways of using the web, and then trying to work out how that relates to the voluntary sector. For instance: On Gerry McGovern’s blog, which emphasises focusing on the customer not the organisation, Thinking …
A couple of international (English speaking) voluntary sector developments: From The Malta Independent: Enactment of legislation to strengthen the voluntary sector – “The National Council of Women welcomed the Voluntary Organisations Act, passed by the House of Representatives on 24 September.” This item is rather truncated and doesn’t explain much …
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