http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/4763 en_GB_uk http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/111422/1/4763 Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/111420/1/4763 Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/111417/1/4763 Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/61488 ‘Best Practices for the Web’ by University of Utah provides website designers useful guidelines to follow while creating web pages. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/59920 The latest materials on ICT, including topics ranging from policy to gender and advocacy journalism, can be found in the multimedia training kit for the staff of Unesco’s community multimedia centres. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/59685 UNESCO’s WINISIS software is one of the most popular for storage and retrieval of information in Zambia. More than 500 librarians, records officers and IT managers in the country are using WINISIS after undergoing training. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/47550 This video explores the uses of handicams and new communication technologies by human right activists, war crime investigators, right-wing videographers and citizens. The video answers questions about what happens when front-line advocates document what they are seeing. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/47129 This guide provides practical advice on how to set up, start, maintain or join an email list. Email has become commonly used; however, in parts of the world where there are fewer experienced users, this guidebook should be useful in the basic information it provides on how to use Internet-based technology. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/45891 Kabissa has come out with an updated version of its highly successful ‘Time to Get Online’ self-learning materials for African civil society organisations. The materials help civil society activists and organisers to get online, learn the essential steps to success on the Internet and to integrate the Internet into their work. The toolkit is available online for free download and in print and CD-ROM version at a nominal cost. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/45838 The Asia Pacific Regional Technology Centre is organising a distance learning course to improve “digital literacy” of agricultural professionals. Designed to teach the professionals in the Asia Pacific how to take advantage of resources available through the Internet, it will be offered between September 15 and October 24, 2003. Scholarships are also available. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/45789 Earshot is offering a free course for unemployed people aged 16-26 in the UK, in which they will learn how to make and present professional radio programmes and gain general media skills. The aim is to raise their employment prospects by improving their ICT, teamwork, time and project-management, research, marketing and general workplace skills. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/44923 The Association for Progressive Communications and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation have released their "ICT Policy for Civil Society" training pack. The pack includes a curriculum and accompanying materials to build the capacity of civil society organisations to understand and engage policy and regulation related to information and communication technologies (ICTs). http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/38908 This course, available in English and Spanish, aims to familiarise participants with key concepts and issues related to the potential and real impacts of ICTs on the social, economic and political development of the less developed countries. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/38909 OneWorld has developed an Open Source content management system specifically for the non-profit sector. It is ideal for the production of portal Websites, intranets/extranets or knowledge management applications, and has been tried successfully in a number of applications. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/38877 A computer curriculum for schools for training students to set up and maintain their own information technology systems, providing the kids with career-enhancing skills while saving schools thousands of dollars in costs.