On Saturday 22 July 2006 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to raise an advocacy issue that's been bothering me for a > while. It concerns The ICT Hub, a coalition of several large UK > organisations that received very significant funding last year > (from the Home Office) to promote ICT within UK Voluntary and > Community Organisations (VCOs).
If you've ever tried to work with groups such as NCVO you soon realise that these people are less than revolutionary. My experience working in/with community education and community groups and having to liaise with NCVO and the like is that much of the effort these organisations put into development work reinforces the current model of how the NGO sector works: It's all about management and lobbying within "the system", not questioning the basis of how our society works with its citizens. P. -- "We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government, nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom, that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with God, and with one another, that these things may abound." (Edward Burroughs, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice') Paul's book, "Energy Beyond Oil", is out now! For details see http://www.fraw.org.uk/ebo/book.html Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations 3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mobbsey/index.html
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