The Wellington e-rider IT service is up and rolling. On Monday 3 March we hosted a celebration to mark the arrival of the service in the Wellington region.

Ruth Dyson, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, addressed the 50 odd people that turned up. And participants heard from our first e-rider Lindsay Hunter, Pauline Harper, who spoke on behalf of her co-manager Julie Thomson at Volunteer Wellington, and Wellington ICT Chairperson Erina Papp as our host.

There are some photos of the 3 March celebration on the e-rider website, or you can go straight to the e-rider launch photoset on flickr.

Our first roving IT professional is being kept very busy. The number of organisations signing up is growing and our systems to support this are in place. We’ve got another eight months for the pilot project to run, when our seed funding dries up.

One of the services we’re providing our signed up clients is a monthly e-newsletter with tips and relevant links. Free copies of the e-rider e-newsletter are available at the e-rider website.

The February 2008 issue featured stories on Skype, “What are people doing when they go online” and “Using a computer: how to sit”.

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