• Org leaders want to be able to store and share documents and spreadsheets for administration, reporting, budgeting and continuity
• Team members want to be able to create and collaborate on information such as documents and spreadsheets related to their org’s purpose
• Org leaders want to be able to share information with the wider public, (text, images and videos) about their activities, events and campaigns.
• Team members want to be able to share and discuss with others in their org information and ideas related to their cause (some groups)

• Open-source communication and collaboration systems, on our own infrastructure, or on servers provided by a local company that we trust.
• A training session and how-to documentation for the people you assign to look after your digital services; initial help with migration and user setup.
• Ongoing server stewardship / system admin
• Maintenance, updates for security; Responsive security / break-fix
• Intermediary between groups and server hosting companies;

• Allocate at least two people to look after your digital services
• Migrate, set up users and permissions, initial folder structures,
• Manage user accounts, permissions, storage (e.g. delete unwanted files)
• Content moderation; decide on and enforce rules for online conduct

• Space to install a node (with network and electricity – ideally solar powered)
• Monitor and contact us if any problems with the node.

We would like local non-profit organisations to join a research project, which will be led by what a community wants, to create social change as well as academic knowledge.

• Participate in a stakeholder workshop in early December 2027
• Help us identify the assets / resources, strengths and barriers
• Help us co-design the roles for non-technical contributions as well as technical roles
• Identify priority digital services and supporting community processes.
• Valuable contributions do not require technical expertise.