Government as a platform
Discussion posted 24 March 2012 by Nick Byrne
"We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship"
- Jennifer Pahlka (TED Talk).
Government 2.0 has been a movement, which arguably began when people started utilising the internet to collaborate and b...
3 Inspiring Women Social Entrepreneurs Creating Transformational
Discussion posted 16 March 2012 by Nick Byrne :: Last updated 28 March 2012
The article below was taken from a small blog called Green Marketing TV. Despite the blogs name, they present some great pieces on social enterprise. EWB often focusses on the developing or 'emerging' world, however the a...
IDEO Human Centred Design Toolkit
Discussion posted 27 February 2012 by Nick Byrne
IDEO is arguably the most respected design thinking firms in the world. They are also founders of the OpenIDEO movement, an online - offline platform enabling individuals to collaborate around real world social problems, and engaging firm...
Mobile & tablet app development
Discussion posted 15 February 2012 by Nick Byrne :: Last updated 16 February 2012
Hi guys,
There are some great online free resources and tutorials for learning how to develop iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. In particular, iTunes University has an outstanding range of classes, not only in app development, but just ab...
Open Source CAD Software Investigation
Discussion posted 04 May 2011 by Ravi Kandula :: Last updated 15 September 2011
Dear IT Knowledge Hub Members,
I'm a Field Volunteer, currently on placement with Medical Technology Transfer & Services, in Hanoi. Since 2007 MTTS has used AutoDesk Inventor as its primary CAD platform, currently using the 2010 release...
Database needed for education project, Vietnam
Discussion posted 06 April 2011 by Catherine Ganley :: Last updated 08 October 2011
Hi, I am currently an EWB volunteer working in Hanoi on an education project.The program benefits 7,330 high school students in Vietnam. I currently have all the data for the students stored in spreadsheets and I would like to transfer it t...
Mobile App Developers
Volunteer opportunity posted 15 September 2010 by Information & Communication Technologies
Background: As part of EWB’s strategic aims and the aims of the EWB Indigenous Australia program, we would like to develop an iPhone and Android application to acknowledge the first people of Australia and their connection to country. Des...
UN resources on ICT for Development
Discussion posted 01 August 2010 by Matthew Imhoff :: Last updated 23 September 2010
Hi ICTers,The United Nations Asia-Pacific Centre for ICT in Development (UNAPCICT if you like acronyms) hosts a free online course on "ICT for Government Leaders". There are video lectures and slides to download and a quiz at the end of eac...
ICT Knowledge Hub Committee Members
Volunteer opportunity posted 15 April 2010 by Information & Communication Technologies :: Last updated 05 October 2010
We are looking for people passionate about utilising information & communications technologies to assist disadvantaged communities to lead EWB's ICT Knowledge Hub.EWB's knowledge hubs are only just being established. An explanation of w...
Conference speakers and topics suggestions
Discussion posted 15 April 2010 by Todd Houstein :: Last updated 16 April 2010
Hi all,We are in planning for the 2010 EWB National Conference. Please reply to this post with suggestions for ICT-related speakers and/or topics you think would be great to have at the conference.If you have suggestions for non-ICT-relat...
eLearning: Moodle -A Local project idea?? also What about tech s
Discussion posted 06 March 2010 by Jonathan Bruck
Moodle is an open source online content and course management that many teachers around the world are using at all levels of education. There are even some really cool high school teachers around Sydney that use it for their engineering stu...
EWB website server administrator
Volunteer opportunity posted 03 March 2010 by Information & Communication Technologies
Responsiblities
Installing and configuring new software
Mail server administration
System performance tuning
Documenting the configuration of the system
Performing backups
Answering technical queries and troubleshooting.
Light programming ...
Open Source projects
Discussion posted 15 December 2009 by Matthew Imhoff :: Last updated 25 March 2010
Hey ICTers,Do you know of any open source projects that EWB software engineers could contribute to?How can EWB effectively help these projects? These projects have a lot of potential -- from my own home I can directly contribute to improvin...
