The workshop is based on a series of free software tools dubbed “NGO-in-a-Box”.
The
NGO-in-a-Box project is an initiative involving technology
practitioners in the voluntary sector in Europe, Africa, South
American and Asia. Several sets of the software tools are being
refined for organisations in India and South East Asia. Simos
Xenitellis, a free software expert and consultant to the voluntary
sector, was a facilitator at the event. He compared the need for
affordable software tools to the need for affordable basic foods
saying “As it's important to an economy to make staple foods as
cheap as possible and accessible to everyone, in the same way
affordable software and information handling tools are essential for
the growth of a knowledge based economy such as India,”