# Charities' uptake of IT "slow" and "patchy"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/05/08/charities039-uptake-it-quotslowquot-and-quotpatchyquot/
- Published: 2001-05-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Guardian and Tate Bramald have published their research in to The Use of IT 
in Non-Profit Making Organisations. The survey suggests that “use of IT for internal
office purposes is generally patchy.” 
The Guardian and Tate Bramald have published
their research in to The Use of IT in Non-Profit Making Organisations. The survey
suggests that “use of IT for internal office purposes is generally patchy.” Of the
221 charities surveyed, 37% did not have any member of staff with responsibility
for IT. Annual IT budgets were around £20,000, or 2% of expenditure. Forty five 
per cent of respondents rated e-commerce as unimportant or irrelevant to charities.

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