Re: [Fsfe-uk] Free Software & The ICT Hub

[Paul Mobbs]

On Saturday 22 July 2006 23:03, address@hidden wrote:
> I wanted to raise an advocacy issue that's been bothering me for a
> while.  It concerns The ICT Hub, a coalition of several large UK
> organisations that received very significant funding last year
> (from the Home Office) to promote ICT within UK Voluntary and
> Community Organisations (VCOs).

If you've ever tried to work with groups such as NCVO you soon realise that 
these people are less than revolutionary. My experience working in/with 
community education and community groups and having to liaise with NCVO and 
the like is that much of the effort these organisations put into development 
work reinforces the current model of how the NGO sector works: It's all about 
management and lobbying within "the system", not questioning the basis of how 
our society works with its citizens.


P.


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