stephen blyth’s blog

Some pretty sizeable grants have been made as part of the 2007 round of the Digital Strategy Community Partnership Fund. Over $10 million in grants was allocated, virtually exhausting the $17 million fund.
Announcing the successful applicants on Monday 30 July 2007 Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Luamanuvao Winnie Laban said the community-based ICT projects will […]

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I’ll definitely bring out my dead for the eDay coming up on 29 September. Dumped in forgotten corners around the house we’ve got three ancient laptops with barely a flicker of life between the three of them.
A lot of people got into the spirit of things at last years eDay in September 2006 when 50 […]

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Having sat through many updates about theWhanau Link project at Wellington Region 2020 Communications Trust meetings, I was delighted to join with fellow Trustees and Wellington 2020 staff at the launch of the expanded Whanau Link project on 25 July.
Now a total of six hospices in the lower North Island have laptops available for […]

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The Wellington City Council has been committed for more than a decade to ensuring that the city is switched onto powerful uses of ICT. Wellington 2020 in it’s different guises has received core funding for much of the period from the Council, and will continue to do so in the future all things being equal.
The […]

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On Monday the Wellington Regional 2020 Communications Trust ran a workshop to test ideas for delivering a new ICT advice and support service for community and voluntary organisations in the Wellington region (the participants are pictured here). Our facilitator, and Trust chairperson, Erina Papp managed to boil the whole two hour workshop into a single […]

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I couldn’t read the title of Larry’s Phd thesis from the photo he sent me (pictured left), so I thought it easiest if I found this out from his website. I knew he has been doing research on something to do with use of the Internet by community organisations. He’d talked about research about neighbourhood […]

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I didn’t manage to visit the Smith Family’s Community Technology Learning Centre (CTLC) in Collingwood when I was working in Melbourne earlier in the year, but I wish I had. The Centre has recently been declared Australia’s official demonstration site for the Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP) Programme.
Microsoft are partnering with the Smith Family and other […]

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I was heartened to get some news from the Rotorua Community ICT Trust recently. Early last year I contributed to a workshop on Computers in the Community hosted by the Rotorua District Council and I’ve been watching developments with interest from a distance. It looks like some momentum is building.
The Trust, which was formally incorporated […]

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The computers at the Robertson Community Technology Centre (CTC) are named after potatoes. Pontiac, chips and mash are among the names of the PCs and Macs you’ll find. I learnt about all of this and more on the most recent edition of “The Buzz”, a technology focused programme broadcast on demand from Australia’s National Radio […]

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