LVSC has been conducting research on how the recession and cuts have impacted VCS organisations. The survey is still open but they’ve published interim findings which indicate the impact has been extremely severe. Get more information, take the survey or download the reports here
We’re really excited about participating in an EU-funded project with Maiz migrants centre in Linz, Austria, the University of Manchester and other European partners to raise awareness of child safety and women’s issues among migrant female guardians and women working with migrant children and adolescents. Download press release here.
Online Networked Neighbourhoods report now available at the Networked Neighbourhoods website.
There’s a discussion of whether older people find ICT skills more difficult to acquire than younger people on a VCS research network I belong to. But I’m not sure it’s a skills issue as ‘older’ people are very well represented on social networking sites and can usually easily learn the skills. The issue is motivation [...]
OpenGovernment Data are mapping open government initiatives from around the world – if you know of any, fill in their form: http://opengovernmentdata.org/
PRism special issue on non-profits: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/nonprofit_issue.html
