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In 2002 when I was managing an upgrade of the CommunityNet Aotearoa website we put a lot of effort into designing the new version of the site so that it would be accessible to all users. Our determination to ensure the website was user-friendly to people with sight impairments or physical disabilities influenced the basic […]

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It’s always useful to keep an eye on the processes that funders use to allocate their money. This is as much the case with government funding as it is with grants from philanthropic trusts or pokie machine operators. It’s good to see that the guidelines for public servants allocating funding to NGOs has been made […]

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I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people that turned up on a wintry Thursday to attend the launch of the RMAlink website. The 25 people assembled were introduced to a powerful online resource that has been developed by ECO, New Zealand’s environmental umbrella group.
The website is designed to make it easy for people […]

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