International Circuit Rider organisation

Had a good meeting with Dirk Slater from Tactical Tech which is now based in Brighton - and Bangalore.
Dirk is a former New Yorker now enjoying life in sunny Brighton. His background is in community activism, having helped build and run Circuit Rider projects in the US and in so-called transition countries - usually former communist countries - and especially through work with Open Society Institute. OSI is funded mainly through money from George Soros - who got very rich form currency deals on Black Monday back in the late 80s.
Having had the connection made via Simon Pavvitt, ex of LASA but now in Vancouver, we realised we had lots to talk about in terms of the combination of community activity, ICT development and social enterprise. This included the fact that I've previously worked on an OSI project in Veszprem, Hungary, with Dr Peter Day, one of SCIP's Directors.
INterestingly Tactical Tech is changing its work, and is now mainly focused on the use of information within activist networks, although it also has a strong background in Open Source and produces a great collection of Open Source software in the form of NGO in a box. I was interested to learn that their focus is moving towards what you can do with ICT, rather than how to keep it working, as this echoes some of SCIP's early sentiments.
It was great to meet someone so in tune with what SCIP is trying to achieve, and I'm sure there's lots more we can share and learn from each other.