ITALY|NGO FILES:virtual and shared space of COCIS web

NGO FILES will be an innovative community promoted by COCIS – Coordination of Non-Governmental Organizations for International Cooperation for Development – and addressed to federate associations. An out – and – out dynamic, virtual and shared space will be created in which to gather, learn and spread experiences and at the same time, to increase the cohesion between Federation’s NGO; a database centered on associated NGO will be created and it will be built by virtue of Web 2.0 systems.

What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a word used for generically indicating Internet status of evolution, compared to the previous condition. The word Web 2.0 indicates the set of all those on-line applications which allow a high level of interaction site-user (blog, forum, chat, systems as Wikipedia, YouTube Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc.). The expression stresses the differences between Web 2.0 and the previous system Web 1.0 which was widespread until the 90’s. It was composed of static websites which has no interaction possibilities with the user except normal netsurfing, the use of e-mail and search engines.
Source: Wikipedia

The project plans to achieve a larger collaboration and to force web capacities of COCIS associations, by creating a real community which shares real-time experiences which stay on-line in a permanent way. In NGO FILES community a profile for each associations will be created, it will be divided into an open section, which will be freely consulted by all users and which will contain public information, and a dedicated – to – community section, which will be available only for members. Each NGO will take care of its profile in the database, introducing and updating constantly news involving their organization. The possibility of visualize and contact to each other, as a real social network, will allow ongoing information interchange and deepening of mutual knowledge between associations and people who are involved in, both in Italy and abroad.
A subsequent purpose of the project is updating NGO e-skills, through the making of three training course which plan face-to-face lessons and e-learning.

1st training course: “Web 2.0: new management tools for non profit”
Cestas will take care of training on Internet 2.0 properties and potentialities.

Subjects:
- Web evolution: from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
- Blogging and micro-blogging
- NGOs, from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0: toward a new communication model
- The image of web organization
- On line presence: tools and services
- User Generated Content
- Online collaborative environments: Google Docs and the like, Google Apps
- Web 2.0, project and human resources management
- Wiki and collective intelligence: Wikipedia
- Sharing knowledge: creative commons, free software, open source
- Social-networks
- Fund raising: ad-words, ad-sense, online donations, Google grants
- Safety and privacy
- Feed RSS
- How to find information

2nd training course “NGO FILES portal management”
Ethic binary will be responsible of making of NGO FILES portal management and functioning course.

Subjects:
- Functioning of NGO FILES portal applications (forum, newsletter, chat)
- Creation and management of NGO profile

3rd training course: “Introduction to CMS Joomla”
Ethic binary will involve training about software making of content management for Joomla web sites.