eNGO WORKSHOP PROJECT 2014

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:

·         Any grassroots development organizations can be a member of the eNGO network

·         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.

·         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

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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

•       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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