Athena Software presents “North America NGO’s at IT Crossroads: Applying Lessons Learned” at Making Links 2005 Conference Australia
October 21, 2005
Athena Software is pleased to announce that Greg Stanley Horn of Athena Software will present "North America NGOs at the IT Crossroads: Applying Lessons Learned” at the Making Links 2005 conference Nov 12-13 2005 in Sydney Australia.
Recent years have seen a number of important changes in the NGO operating environment in North America. Some of these changes involve tightened or diminished funding flows from traditional governmental sources, increased demands for accountability and demonstration of performance and outcomes-based results, increased demands for inter-agency collaboration and partnerships, expansion of services across geographically distributed areas, heightened inter-agency competition for resources, shifting conceptions of client-centred service delivery and the move to the implementation of standardized data requirements both within and among NGOs. These industry-specific changes have emerged at the same time that significant advances in the information technology industry have created new opportunities and challenges in the realm of data security, client confidentiality, electronic data interchange, and migration to new technologies - all within a context of limited "in-house" technical and financial resources.
Greg will focus on how North America NGOs are meeting today’s challenges using well-thought out, planned and executed integrated information technology strategies. continued....
