Programos
Foundation, Nigeria in conjunction with DEF: Digital Empowerment Foundation,
India to start year 2014 by hosting 100 grassroot development organizations
(NGOs) for ICT capacity building with free Web site & Training tagged “eNGO
Workshop Project”.
Digitally Empowering NGOs through NGO
Domain Name
DATE: 28th January, 2014
VENUE: University of Lagos, Guest House (Conference Room), Akoka, Lagos, NIGERIA.
Further
Highlights:
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Any
grassroots development organizations can be a member of the eNGO network
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eNGO
is a web enabled facility designed by Digital Empowerment Foundation for
grassroots Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations to have a virtual
identity, information and communication
platform for outreach and scale up.
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A
first of its kind programme for ICT capacity building of NGOs/CSOs/SHGs
- A self-owned asset under which NGO beneficiaries are made capable to manage their own websites and content
Why
eNGOs?
There are currently over a million NGOs and Self
Help Groups in Nigeria and the majority of them do not have a proper
webpage. Most of the NGOs working at the
grassroots level thus remain unknown and do not earn the appreciation and
benefit coming from sources that can provide tremendous energy to them. This
situation might have been caused for reasons like lack of finance, expertise
and foresight. Besides, all such NGOs have tremendous amount of information
which is not exposed to outside their geography, policy makers, or potential
granters.
Objectives
of eNGOs!
eNGO aims to provide NGOs a digital or web space -in
local languages and/or English-, increasing their visibility and to empower
them with useful tools that can facilitate and enhance their daily activities
in:
Communication
& Outreach: communicating their objectives and outreach of
their activities to various stakeholders with ICT tools
Fundraising:
attracting donors showing current and future projects and collecting funds
trough e-fundraising platforms
Partnerships
& direct linking with other institutions: to
facilitate horizontal outreach and synergies with other organizations by using
new media tools
Human
Resource Support: To have access to volunteers and interns from India
and foreign countries, to have access to skilled human resources interested in
their development issues.
Giving
voice to local issues: giving testimonies of local
situations through the use of photographs, text and video and highlighting
problems of local nature at national and international levels
Showcasing
local content for global outreach: eNGO
platform enables grassroots organizations to showcase local content for global
audience for wider recognition and connectivity.
eNGO
web service solution package is designed to serve:
q Grassroots
organizations having community development initiatives anywhere in Nigeria;
q Grassroots
individual innovators, social entrepreneurs undertaking social entrepreneurial
activities;
q Self
Help Groups into a set of diverse community benefiting and viable activities
commonplace in the community
.
eNGO
Services @ Grassroots Organisations (NGOs)
•
Domain Name
for your Website (e.g.- www.yourngo.org)
•
Website
Hosting
•
Website
Designing
•
Content Uploading
•
Technical
Handhold Support
•
Manual to
update your site own, without any external help.
•
eNGO
networking platform for partnerships
•
New Social Media tools management
•
24x7 online
email support.
•
ICT Capacity building training programme
•
Local Partnership & Global Promotion
•
Others
Benefits
of .NGO
•
Visibility - A website using a .NGO domain name is
visibly represented to the world as an NGO and opens the door to a worldwide
audience for education and contributions.
•
Exclusivity - .NGO addressed are available
exclusively for the NGO community, a home address that make your organization
more visible on internet.
•
Reliability - with today’s technology many useful
web services can be delivered to members of the NGO community automatically and
securely.
•
Charities - If charities adopt .ngo as their chosen
domain, consumers will learn that they should be careful when donating to any
site outside that domain. Whilst this will reduce online fraud in general, it
will have a significant impact on major fraud.
•
Endless Opportunities
www.ngoindia.ngo
www.myngo.ngo www.xyz.ngo
www.green.ngo
www.rural.ngo www.social.ngo
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Shorter
Domain Names - Making the domain short and easy to remember is
particularly important for word of mouth and offline advertising as it is
required to type the name directly into the address bar. This is particularly
useful as it could create stronger association between offline and online
branding and reinforced messaging. This is likely to create an increase in branded
traffic to the website as customers are likely to recall the brand upfront.
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