Office Startup Ideas
Some Office Startup Ideas
WHO ?
Get a Coordinator, Steering Committee Chair, Form a Steering Committee
- Closest member of WCE Board or International Advisory Council
- Volunteer regional volunteers from NetAid.org
- Translators who live in region
- Reuters: Regional Coordinator?
- Rotary International
- Tech, International, or community service teams from local high school
- Tech, International, or community service teams from local university or college
- Local WCE Strategic Ally
- Volunteers WCE has heard from
- More volunteers from where all of the above work
- http://www.techsoup.org/index.cfm for recycling sites.
- In Canada: Computers for Schools
- In US: volunteer champion and volunteers from Asha for Education
- In US and Canada: Telephone Pioneers
WHAT ?
- Get Computers and networking gear donated
- Recruit tech-savvy sister-schools to be partnered with schools new to technology
- Recruit Volunteers who have tech skills to be online helpdesk and maybe visit project they work with
WHEN ?
- Make a brief timeline of your activities
- Submit an inventory of equipment on last day of each month
WHERE ?
- The home phone number and address of the coordinator is okay – but sharing an office would be better
WHY ?
- Review WCE website for background and materials to use to explain or request computers
HOW ?
- Get storage/testing and office space donated
- Have a brief monthly newsletter cc: Tim
- Plan a public computer donation event – coordinate with Tim
- Send out press releases about WCE: seeking computers, sister-schools, and volunteers
HOW MUCH ?
Submit the WCE office proposal
- Get expenditures pre-authorised by Tim
- Draft brief budget of things WCE should spend on to increase flow of computers
TO WHOM ?
- If you want to be involved in working with partners on the demand side – talk to Tim for a focus country
- Please do not respond to requests from field unless they are from your focus country(s)s – forward to Tim
