fundit.ie crowdsources funding for projects

Fundit.ie crowdsources funding for projects ranging over: art, craft, design, events, fashion, film and television, food, games, media and publishing, music, performance, science and technology...

Paraphrased from Fundit.ie's About page.

"Fundit.ie is based at 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland. It is an all-island (island of Ireland) crowdfunding website for creative projects, giving anyone the power to help good ideas happen. It is designed to support greater individual giving to the creative sector; an area that up until now has been under-utilised. The approach serves to strengthen the bond between a creator and their audience which offers the potential for wider-ranging, long-term relationships."

Loughborough Centre for Global Sourcing and Services (CGSS)

The Loughborough Centre for Global Sourcing and Services (CGSS) undertakes independent research on the trends and practices in global sourcing of IT and business services. Its goal is to improve sourcing practices through on-going engagement with managers and policy makers. In particular, the centre is interested in understanding how individuals, teams, organisations and other stakeholders cope with: the centralisation of business and IT service functions through shared service units; the disaggregation of business and IT service functions through captive centres and third party vendors; the back-sourcing of previously outsourced business and IT service functions; and the emergence of new sourcing models such as cloud services.

For information about the centre see http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sbe/research/centres/cgss/index.html

Working in Bangalore; an inside view of outsourcing

This series of films attempt to peel back the cover of what happens on the other end of the phone in Bangalore's software outsourcing industry.

"You're in a space warp where you don't know you're in Bangalore."

Is what we see depicted in these snapshots of work life in Bangalore really much different from what happens in our own work places? Is the software development industry marked by diversity of approach or is its culture, professional norms and values much more homogeneous than expected?

The films are available to purchase from www.der.org