Tonight I presented at the Drupal for NGO’s event in London that I go to sometimes. Its basically an event to connect Drupal developers to NGOs so us developers can help NGO’s build sites and online applications (using Drupal of course). Obviously with my Accenture Development Partnerships background, this is of great interest to me,…
Tag: NGOs
Today I came to DC on an invite from Google.org to attend a conference they were organising for NGO’s in the area. It was a great day, if anything just to see all the people I’ve been working with in the sector since I started ADP almost a year ago – NetHope, Ashoka, Red Cross.…
As mentioned in my last blog, I’ve been working in the NGO sector the past few months and also following Alfresco, the first open source Enterprise Content Management system. Through my contacts in Alfresco I’ve been talking about potential partnerships between Alfresco and the NGO sector. First of all, I have to dispel a myth,…
I’ve recently been running a vendor assessment for an NGO (Non Government Organisation, Charity) called NetHope. They are looking to build a collaboration Intranet for all their member NGO’s (there’s currently 18 of them!) to share information and documents. Obviously, I included Alfresco in the vendor assessment, and also Plone, which is heavily supported by…
A couple of months ago I picked up “Creating a World Without Poverty” by Muhammad Yunus. I knew who Muhammad Yunus was, but I’d never read a book by him. However it was the title that grabbed my attention and the overview talking about his idea for Social Businesses. And yes – it took me…
CNN did an interesting piece this morning on how new graduates are actively looking to join companies that are green and socially responsible. This is great news, as I myself have been a volunteer on Accenture’s Accenture Development Partnerships for the past 10 months, and even better because CNN spent most of the piece talking…
I’m here on my third day in Seattle, in the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. This place is fantastic, and yesterday I swear I saw Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) walking down the corridor! We also did a tour of Microsoft’s vision for how we will work in the next 3-7 years, round table video…