Earshot is offering a free course for unemployed people aged 16-26 in the UK, in which they will learn how to make and present professional radio programmes and gain general media skills. The aim is to raise their employment prospects by improving their ICT, teamwork, time and project-management, research, marketing and general workplace skills.
The Association for Progressive Communications and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation have released their "ICT Policy for Civil Society" training pack. The pack includes a curriculum and accompanying materials to build the capacity of civil society organisations to understand and engage policy and regulation related to information and communication technologies (ICTs).
This course, available in English and Spanish, aims to familiarise participants with key concepts and issues related to the potential and real impacts of ICTs on the social, economic and political development of the less developed countries.
OneWorld has developed an Open Source content management system specifically for the non-profit sector. It is ideal for the production of portal Websites, intranets/extranets or knowledge management applications, and has been tried successfully in a number of applications.
A computer curriculum for schools for training students to set up and maintain their own information technology systems, providing the kids with career-enhancing skills while saving schools thousands of dollars in costs.
APC offers a newsfeed on Open Source and offers a Open Source Content Mangement System, called Community Apps, a collaborative web publishing tool for non-profits.
The Bridges.org toolkit is where you can find information on how to solve specific problems, or achieve specific goals for putting ICT to practical use.
Six international organisations have joined forces to create ItrainOnline, a technology resource centre for people who want to learn how to use the Internet effectively for social justice and sustainable development.
