The Lasa BASIS London Region ICT Infrastructure Project has recently started (May 2008) and aims to carry out the following:
- increase the understanding in 30 VCS infrastructure organisations that ICT is a capacity building issue, reaching their wider constituency by the end of the project
- develop a sustainable capacity building programme to improve circuit riders use of tools and resources
- ensure a circuit rider training framework is in place in order to provide a quality-assured professional service to frontline groups in London. Accreditation and quality standards research, consultation and selection will occur in the project’s early stages
- train 60 circuit riders (based mainly in infrastructure organisations) by the end of the project, standardising and assuring the quality of circuit rider skills for VCS organisations
- help increase the investment in ICT from funders and frontline groups by the collation of case studies to present to London funders by the end of the project, which demonstrate the effectiveness of circuit rider ICT support services to frontline London VCS organisations.
An advisory group has been formed which consists of:
- Catherine Palmer, CVC Circuit Riders
- John Davies, IT4Communities
- David Jones, LVSC
- Sharon Stainsby, LVSC
- Marc Osten, Summit Collaborative
- Simon Davey, Preponderate Network
- Kate White, Superhighways
The project is being managed by Ian Runeckles at Lasa.
We'll be using the ukriders.info site to keep Riders up to date on the project developments and for hosting resources, training materials and so on.
