Have you ever considered
volunteering your IT expertise to help a
charity or community project? If so, there is an organisation
that can help you do so effectively.
Established by the Information Technologists Company, and
supported by Computer
Weekly, IT4Communities provides the infrastructure for
effective IT volunteering.
The organisation has more than 4,000 IT professional volunteers
under its umbrella, and it is connected to more than 1,600
charities and community projects that need IT support. Since its
inception in 2002, IT4Communities volunteers have donated more than
£2m worth of their time to charitable projects.
Acting as a clearing house and a source of advice both to
volunteers and to charities, IT4Communities has brought much needed
structure into the process of volunteering, and several hundred
projects have been completed successfully.
"IT4Communities oils the wheels," said programme director John
Davies.
In 2005, IT4Communities joined up with four other charitable
organisations to form the ICT Hub, which received a cash injection
of £400,000 from the Home Office to support the effective use of IT
across the voluntary sector.
What is the Information Technologists
Company?
Part of a centuries old City of London tradition, the
Information Technologists Company is a body of
650 senior IT professionals dedicated to generating effective
IT-related activities in education and charity, such as
IT4Communities. It also facilitates high level interaction across
industry and the City. The organisation became a City livery
company 15 years ago, as the Worshipful Company of Information
Technologists. Last year the name Information Technologists Company
was adopted for general external usage, with the original name now
reserved for certain formal internal occasions.
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