Oxfam joins music-download business
News Charity Oxfam has announced that its own song-shop offering -- bignoisemusic.com -- will launch on 26 May. While the idea of a site that gives music lovers the opportunity to do a bit of a good and avail themselves of the odd exclusive track might...
[May 24, 2004, 16:25]
Anti-spammers hobble Oxfam's Kosovo email campaign
News Britain's largest foreign aid charity, Oxfam, had planned to experiment with direct email canvassing for the first time, using 10,000 email addresses from users of British Telecom's Talk21, a free email service, and Auto Trader magazine's Web...
[April 22, 1999, 7:13]
ZDNet UK's Mail Room
News Oxfam needs some advice on modern "Permission Marketing" techniques -- in that way they'll increase their donations. Much as I applaud the efforts of Oxfam and similar organisations, the ramifications of charities believing they can email the world...
[April 30, 1999, 13:51]
Webcast: Innovating to Deliver Humanitarian Relief
White Papers CIO Simon Jennings explains how Oxfam GB runs the fifth largest retail business in the UK to support its humanitarian efforts, and describes the challenges of delivering application services and mobile solutions to remote, and often insecure...
[October 25, 2006, 0:00]
'Tis the season to be spending... online
News Paul Deighton, the mail order manager for Oxfam Trading, says sales from the site had doubled compared to last year, with more than 50 percent of orders coming from new customers. Oxfam offers unusual products from developing countries throughout...
[December 6, 2002, 15:25]
Saving lives with mobile open source
News Specific projects highlighted in the report included a text-messaging service, provided by Oxfam and the Kenyan organisation PeaceNet, to alert NGOs to any violent incidents surrounding recent election-related civil unrest in Kenya.
[June 6, 2008, 15:25]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback Second, the charity does not sell the PCs to Africa "for 50 quid"; that figure relates to the cost of refurbishing and shipping the PCs, and is raised by fundraising activities or is paid for by organisations such as Oxfam or Unicef who are...
[February 11, 2005, 11:33]
Computer Aid gives 40,000 PCs a fresh start
News If an organisation like Oxfam or Unesco wants a whole container full of computers, we can provide that at a fixed cost, and the fund-raising is effectively done by that organisation. Two million pounds worth of computers may not seem like a big...
[February 4, 2005, 12:15]
IBM urged to lead green-technology charge
News The retailer's chief information officer fought off strong competition for the award from a shortlist including Neil Cameron of Unilever, Trevor Didcock of the AA, Simon Jennings of Oxfam and David Lister of Reuters.
[September 25, 2007, 15:12]
Tesco.com launches music service
News With more and more companies joining in the music download fray - Virgin, Sony, Coke and Oxfam to name a few - Higgins said he believes the market is reaching its saturation point. Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple's pie...
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]
UK's mobile phone mountain keeps growing
News A similar service is also offered by Corporate Mobile Recyling, which is a partner with charity Oxfam. Nearly one million mobile phones have been thrown away or left to gather dust in a drawer over the last couple of weeks by users who got a new...
[January 6, 2004, 12:50]
Techies bring more aid to Earthquake zone
Blog Since TSF deployed from its Americas base in Nicaragua, only 24 hours after the disaster, 17 aid agencies such as the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams (UNDAC), the World Food Programme, the International Federation of the...
[August 24, 2007, 15:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Go to a cashpoint and it will primly suggest that while you're there, you might as well transfer a fiver to Oxfam. Tuesday 14/06/2005 What is it with wristbands? I will admit to wearing a rather tatty macrame affair a la Keith Richards, in my...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groups
News Projects highlighted in the report include a text-messaging service provided by Oxfam and the Kenyan organisation PeaceNet to alert NGOs to any violent incidents surrounding recent election-related civil unrest in Kenya.
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
