Empowerment Technologies
stops.
Collaboration - Collaboration is the process of two or
more people or organizations working together to
complete a task or achieve a goal.
Common Principles of Collaboration
• Participation – Encourage participation from
across your organization wherein they belong
as one.
• Collective – Each needs to help the group reach
a consensus and then take action collectively on
the decision to make.
• Transparency – feedback and trust are essential
elements of collaboration. Being transparent
with information is crucial.
• Independence – Ensure that group think does
not emerge and that people are thinking for
themselves
• Persistence – You need to be persistent in your
application of these principles to ensure that all
content is kept within the community and easily
accessible to all members.
• Emergence – You need to ensure that you focus
on the end goal rather than worrying about
how it is achieved. The collaborative community
should set their own goals and objectives
5 Essential Features of an online collaborative Tool
1. Easy and clean interface – A good user interface
is key to a great online collaboration tool.
Application that are simple and intuitive are
much easier to learn to use, so you and your
team would not have to waste time in long
tutorials.
2. Permission control – User need to be able to
easily add people to workspaces and control
what they are able to do. In each workspace or
document. This way, workspace managers can
make sure that only those who are authorized
to change documents do so.
3. File storage with document versioning – not
only do you want to be able to upload all
documents related to a project onto your online
collaboration tool, but all document versions
are saved on the tool. This will make it easy to
track the progress of a document, and if any
past versions need to be referenced, it is easy
to do so.
4. Whiteboard – Whiteboards are very useful in a
collaboration tool, as they let team members
communicate in a more informal way, it is also
possible to host a virtual brainstorming session
using a whiteboard, so the flow of ideas never
5. Document locking – this feature ensures that
only one person is working on a document at a
time.
“Activity Number 1”
Access Smag.Araliks.com:8087 and answer the
forum under computer empowerment. Research about
the following, you may use your books to add some
details or access the internet for a new set of
information.
- Trello
- Podio
- Asana
- Google Apps
- Yammer
Project Management in ICT
• Project Owner – The head of the business unit
and bears the responsibility for successful
project implementation and is usually the
chairperson of the project steering group.
• Project Steering Group – This group consist of
the representatives of the business. The group
provides the guidelines, taking responsibility for
decision making supporting the project
managers, and ensuring that the targets of the
project are met.
• Project Manager – Responsible for daily project
management and ensuring that the project
produces the agreed deliverables at the
appropriate level or quality.
• Project Management Office – often established
to gather project resources together and to
develop and update the company’s project
practices and management policy.
“Assignment”
Research about the following, write you
answers on a one whole sheet of paper.
1. Windows Hosting
2. Unix Hosting
3. Linux Hosting