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ruralnet|uk to deliver Web 2.0 website for AMT
ruralnet|uk is delighted to announce that it has won the tender to deliver the Action for Market Towns (AMT) website. A central feature of the bid was in utilising cutting edge web 2.0 technologies which will ultimately allow AMT to pull information in from other sites via RSS feeds and also take control of managing the environment themselves.
net:gain wins funding to continue market-based innovation in ICT support
ruralnet|uk is delighted with Capacitybuilders’ announcement today awarding funding to continue the highly innovative net:gain programme until 2011.
Improving the reach of rural regeneration
Rural VCO’s are benefiting from the ruralnet|uk managed ‘Improving Reach’ project, supported by Capacity Builders. As part of this project, rural VCO’s are being invited to adopt a widget for their website.
What is ruralnet|uk?
ruralnet|uk is a rural regeneration charity which promotes a living and working countryside and finds new and effective ways to help rural communities improve and strengthen their local economies. It supports agencies working on the ground to alleviate disadvantage, to enable social inclusion and social enterprise. It works through promoting and enabling collaboration, research, consultancy and knowledge and information transfer. With local partners, it supports projects which put ideas into practice at the local level. It has specialist skills in Information, Communications and Collaboration Technologies (ICCTs) and wide experience covering their potential and their appropriate use for rural areas.
It uses ICCTs to make connections between people, to ensure that information reaches those that need it, that networks are developed and supported, and that project partnerships achieve their full potential.
ruralnet|uk is equally at home in the business, public, community and voluntary sectors. It works at local, sub-regional, regional, national and European levels.
