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Computanews guides
The lasa Computanews guides are specially written to offer practical
guidance on specific IT issues and answer common queries.
Guides currently available:
Managing ICT £5
This revised and expanded Guide discusses the common issues in managing
ICT. Sections cover:
Establishing an ICT Strategy
What policies you need in place, the roles of different staff and how to work with an external ICT support company.
Common Elements of an ICT Policy
Topics include software standardisation, buying hardware and software, budgeting, training and data protection.
Making Decisions on ICT
Includes seeking outside advice, roles and responsibilities when making decisions, and implementing changes.
Resources
A list of the websites and books that can help you.
Checklists
Separate checklists for senior managers/trustees, for managers in charge of ICT and for computer users - each at basic, intermediate and advanced level.
Data Protection (available free as a 208
Kb pdf document)
The 1998 Data Protection Act affects almost all voluntary organisations.
However, many struggle to understand it, and worry that they might get
into trouble by not complying. Or they take an over-cautious approach
and allow their work to be hampered by unnecessarily tight restrictions.
The Data Protection Act need not be a major problem. In fact applying
good Data Protection practice means asking questions that can actually
help improve services or procedures. This guide aims to demystify the
Act and give you a framework for deciding what your organisation needs
to do about it, including the meaning of 'Personal Data', preventing harm,
appropriate security and confidentiality, what to do if things go wrong,
transparency, consent and much more.
Project Management (available free as a 675
Kb pdf document)
"Excellent and very informative." World Health Organization, Geneva.
This Guide provides an introduction to the techniques of project management.
It looks at the basic principles and available tools and provides some
templates and procedures for implementing project management methods.
The Guide emphasises how project management can work in a voluntary sector
setting with particular reference to managing funding applications. (If
you are using a modem to download the Guide it may take 2 to 3 minutes.)
Circuit Riding (available free as a pdf
document)
A Circuit Rider is a
mobile ICT development worker who supports a caseload of small voluntary organisations, and who works collaboratively with other Circuit Riders. This Guide explains the approach that Circuit Riders take to their work, describes various existing Circuit Rider Projects, looks at different business models for projects, and provides some guidance to setting up your own project. More information about Circuit Riding is available elsewhere on this website.
Security
Our guide on ICT security issues (viruses, spam etc) will be available shortly for free as a pdf download.
To order a printed Guide (£5), fill out this
form.
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