Supporting groups with their ICT

Workshop materials

The Regional ICT Project is running a series of ICT workshops for local support and development organisations in the third sector (sometimes referred to as local infrastructure organisations). These are aimed at development workers and other staff involved in providing support to frontline organisations.

With the title 'Supporting groups with their ICT', the aim of the workshops is to enable development workers to be more skilled and confident about supporting organisations with their ICT needs. The workshops provide key tools for signposting organisations to appropriate sources of help, including the wide range of ICT resources which are available online.

The workshop slides and associated materials are available for download. You are welcome to use these materials, e.g. to run your own workshop for local groups in your area. We do ask that you acknowledge the source - please see the Creative Commons license below for details.
 

Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales. (For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ )

  

A. Workshop slides and handouts for exercises

Slides (Powerpoint)  5Mb

Lesson plan    151Kb

Exercise 1 handout   657Kb   (Development worker ICT questions)

Exercise 2 handout   691Kb   (Basic ICT healthcheck)

Exercise 3 handout   27Kb    (ICT budget calculator)
 

Optional exercise (not included in the Slides or Lesson Plan):

Optional Exercise handout A   703Kb   (ICT risk assessment checklist)

Optional Exercise handout B   718Kb   (ICT risk assessment answers)
 

B. Workshop resources

Handouts

Where to find information about ICT   666Kb  (Briefing Paper 1)

How to do more with less   680Kb (Briefing Paper 2 - a guide to free and low cost ICT resources)

What to tell groups about ICT   673Kb (Briefing Paper 3- a guide for development workers)

What do groups need to know about ICT   295Kb (7pp article – for development workers) 
 

Other resources

Social media planning guide   187Kb

A guide to managing ICT in the voluntary and community sector   2Mb 

How to cost and fund ICT   1Mb 

Easy, free & quick ICT accessibility   428Kb 

How to use new media   5Mb 

New media case studies   701Kb 
 

C. Links to further useful resources

In addition to the resources listed above, this website provides further useful resources for ICT development work, including the ICT resources file, and the documents store.

A good resource for finding useful ICT links is the briefing paper ‘Where to find information about ICT' (see Handouts above). This includes links to:

Lasa ICT Knowledgebase    http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/

Lasa Suppliers Directory     http://www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk/

Regional ICT Champions    http://www.ictchampions.org.uk/

N.B. The ICT Champions website includes an online version of ‘ICT Answers in a box'.