Perch un nuovo laboratorio

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Perché un nuovo laboratorio?
TangoLabTecnology Assistance to NGO Laboratory
Roberto Polillo DISCO, 16 June 2009 Lab site
www.labtango.wordpress.com
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TangoLab Mission

• Identify, design prototype innovative,
  effective, low-cost and sustainable ICT
  solutions, for no-profit orgs and their
  customers and promote their use

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Almost half the world over three billion people
live on less than 2.50 a day
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Now, change we can!

• In very recent years, entrance barriers to ICT
  have dramatically lowered
• Low-cost internet connectivity
• Low-cost mobile devices
• VOIP
• Open source software
• Free high-quality content management systems
• Free cloud computing
• Free social computing
• Integration and mashup technologies
• Usability research

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The Third Sector galaxy

• In Italy, in 2001
• - 220.000 orgs
• 4 ml people (3.2 ml volunteers)

THIRD SECTOR
NO-PROFIT
IMPRESE
ONLUS
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS
NGO
SOCIAL GOALS
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No-profit ICT

• No-profit orgs (and volunteers orgs above all)
  often small and unstructured
• ICT often rudimentary
• No money
• No know-how
• Focus on main organization activities
• But ICT might produce a powerful leverage
  effect
• Web site promotion, fund rising, volunteers
  recruitment, communications and internal
  organization support
• Domain specific applications
• Communications, communications, communications
• Problems
• Technology low-tech, low-bandwith, costs,
  technical support
• Context logistics, education, sustainability

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Sustainable?
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TangoLab Philosophy

• No software development, but identification of
  free sw components, integration and mashup
• No local ICT infrastructures, but use of cloud
  computing
• The net as the primary enabler
• Simple, usable, low cost and sustainable
  solutions
• Requirements and field testing through
  partnerships
• All output freely reusable

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TangoLab Activities

• Container for student thesis (different levels
  and degrees)
• Cohoperation with no-profit orgs for user
  requirements and field testing
• Partnership with Informatici senza
  frontierehttp//www.informaticisenzafrontiere.org
  /(also for shared systems)
• Promotion and circulation of experiences,
  know-how and software

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Current projects

• Site social network for Cooperativa Sociale
  Lambro di Monza http//www.cooperativalambro.it/
  (1 thesi s TTC, finished)
• Observatory on quality and best-practices of
  Italian NGO web sites (2 thesis TTC)
• Global Health project for Children Hospital in
  Managua (with Medicine and Sociology Faculties,
  and UNAN Managua University)
• Experiences withviral marketing of no-profit
  events(1 thesis TTC Homeless World Cup 2009
  http//www.homelessworldcup.org/groups 1
  thesis TTC Promotion Chia.Ve project, with
  Municipalities of Chiasso, Vergiate and
  Sesto Calende)
• TangoNet Project ICT for no-profit Social
  Portal (started with1 thesis LM Inf,
  cohoperation with ISF)http//tangonet.ning.com/

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TangoNet

• Social portal for ICT for no-profit in Italy
• Social portal social network repository
  aggregator portal
• Open and free
• Developed through partnerships
• Piattaform ning

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• Cohoperation proposals will be
• estremely welcome!
• Meta-lab concept (?)
• Thank you