On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 17:00 +0100, jah wrote: > On 21/09/17 13:31, Jonke Suhr wrote: > > > > I received a request to add Doteveryone [1] to our list of > > supporting > > organizations for Public Code, however I'm not sure if they are > > truly an > > NGO like the other organisations on our list. > > > > They are a registered charity, however I'm not sure what that > > entails so > > I wanted to ask if anyone who knows a lot about the UK could pitch > > in > > with some information (I CC'd Daniel so maybe he can forward this > > mail). > More information about the charity can be found here:- > > http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details?regid=1146972&su > bid=0 > > To quote last year's report:- > > "Go ON UK is a partnership organisation and was formed by a number of > organisations from the business, charity and public > sectors who wished to work together, creating an effective national > alliance to ensure everyone has the Basic Digital Skills > they need." > > jah > > Short answer as Jah says above. They are a charity. They have an online document which they shared publicly asking for contribution. I contributed to it saying that many of their issues might be reinventing the wheel. I pointed them towards groups that are doing similar things such as consumers international, fsf, fsfe, and ORG (I think I forgot about public software). So basically, it was me who pointed them in fsfe direction. Some of their blogs can be found here: https://medium.com/doteveryone Their founder is Martha Lane Fox who has the respect of many people in UK. I don't know what it implies to have their dot-everyone on the links page of fsfe but I feel that doteveryone should be consulting with fsfe and other charities to find out what is best for ethical tech. They also have a podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-558357776 I get the feeling that they have just started but probably will have strong influence in business in UK.
-- Andres (he/him/his) HUG Director RML Founding Member
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