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About our informal network and who manages the site
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What is Global eRidingeRiding is a model for providing mission-driven technology support for the civil society sector. Services are provided by roving consultants with a wide range of skills including planning, training and technology troubleshooting. The eRider model is designed to deliver personal, flexible and mission-driven expertise at a relatively low cost to the nongovernmental organization (NGO).
eRiding is a holistic approach to technology support which includes an in-depth understanding of the way the organization works, how it integrates ICTs (information and communication technologies) into its programs and the steps needed to use technology as a tool in its work. eRiding is based on the ‘circuit riding’ model pioneered in the United States. Circuit riding began more than seven years ago as an effort by several foundations to provide technology assistance to their grantees. Within these few years, the community has grown to include more than 600 circuit riders and several national and community foundations provide eRiding services to their grantees throughout the United States. eRiding, the global brand of circuit riding, began to spread outside the United States in 1997.
eRiding is in contrast to isolated or fragmented programs that would provide equipment to a group but no training or train a group but develop no plan for how to use the technology in their work or would develop a plan but would not help the group to implement the plan. In developing the eRider model in the US and abroad, donors and NGO supporters, recognized that groups would benefit from an approach that focused on training, planning, project development and implementation.
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