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By Kaye Wiggins, Third Sector Online, 10 February 2010
Government's digital inclusion champion urges investment in IT
Martha Lane Fox, the Government's newly appointed digital inclusion champion, has urged charitable foundations to award more grants to charities for their core functions and IT.
In an interview to mark the announcement of Government's Race Online 2012 initiative, intended to bring four million more people online by the time the London Olympic Games begin, Lane Fox told Third Sector it was "eye-opening" that charities often struggled to fund technology.
"They should be able to get money for core funding, not only for starting new projects," she said.
Lane Fox, who founded travel website lastminute.com and is chair of grant-giving foundation Antigone, said: "Technology is not usually at the front of people's minds, but investing in it can allow charities to work more quickly and effectively."
She said the Government's campaign would not fund IT systems for charities or give them funds to help their beneficiaries get online. But she said the website would include information to help charity beneficiaries to use the internet.
Thee Race Online 2012 campaign is expected to be launched within the next six weeks.
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NIsha Sharma, 12 February 2010, 10:02
This support for core funding is appreciated by those working for poorly resourced charities. "less speed more haste" should be heeded, governments tend to rush headlong into new ideas and launch them without thinking through on the process of how they will work in real terms.
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Charlotte Willis, 15 February 2010, 15:44
New projects serve a very good purpose but need to be able to successfully sustain our existing operations. Yes to more core funding!
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