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 …
Does Britain need an equivalent to ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom launching early 2008? I think the States has a greater need, and we have the likes of OpenDemocracy already, but any comments? Here’s an excerpt from Nonprofit Online News aboutProPublica: “I’m not surprised to learn that the project is backed …
The introduction of the Community Interest Companies (CIC) was intended to provide a way for people to get involved in social enterprise projects intended to benefit local communities. A CIC can be setup and grow safe in the knowledge that what is built for the benefit of the local community …
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