Terry Stokes: Technologie szansą na rozwój, czyli co może zyskać twoja organizacja!

1. Technology as the chance for
development. What your organisation
can gain!
Terry Stokes
Lasa
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2. Technology trends
 Top 4 market trends:
– Charity leaders need to engage with digital for sustainability
– More online tools, leading to great opportunities for charities globally
– Collaboration through social media tools and shared Open Data
– Mobile: big opportunities for fundraising, communications and service
delivery

4. New ICT Tools and
Innovations
 How trends are being adopted in UK:
– Mobile: Comic relief recently raised £15 million via mobile. Also
opportunities to deliver services via mobile
– Open data: helps sector share info and demonstrate impact
– Social media: widely used in the UK for stakeholder communication,
fundraising and market research
– Cloud technologies and tools: enabling smaller organisations to work
more efficiently. See www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/onlinetools

5. How is ICT helping British
Organisations?
 Practical advantages:
– Cloud technologies enable collaborative and partnership work,
networking, data storage and more
– Efficient data recording and reporting to funders eg using CRMs
– Social media raises organisational profiles and awareness of services
– Blogging: sector is moving from traditional ‘web building’ to greater
use of blogging and blogger outreach

6. How Lasa can help you
 Lasa’s ICT Knowledgebase
The UK’s leading website for non-profit technology information
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk

7. What is a Circuit Rider?
 Circuit Rider – “A mobile worker who provides technology
support and development to a caseload of small third sector
organisations and who works in collaboration with other
Riders”
 Circuit Riders:
– Have knowledge of the sector and technology
– Capacity build rather than build dependence
– Ability to relate to members of an organisation from the board to the
accidental techie

8. Principles, competences and
ongoing learning
 In 2007 and 2008 Lasa was funded to develop circuit riding.
We established:
– The principles by which Riders work
– ICT standards for organisations to aspire to;
– The competencies required for a Rider to assist organisations to
achieve those standards;
– Possible scenarios for training and mentoring Riders.

9. Successes and Issues of the
learning programme
 Created learning platform and established learning pathways
 Influenced European-funded Circuit Rider learning programme in Wales
 Delivered basic course to refugee and migrant proto-Riders
 But…
 Pool of potential learners shrank between project initiation and delivery
stages
 Lack of funding for Circuit Riding projects meant potential learners left
posts
 Technological advances (webinars, for example) could have significantly
helped deliver programme with dispersed learners
 Was a hard-sell to Riders already in post and delivering services – lack
of time to devote to professional development
 Pitched at a foundation level whereas could have been more advanced