Legal Services Technology Conference
Chicago, Illinois
October 16 - 18, 2002

The LSC-sponsored Technology Initiative Grant (TIG) Conference was held at Chicago Kent Law School in Chicago, Illinois, October 16 - 18, 2002. The goal of the conference was to assist programs with implementing now, or in the future, technology initiatives for their programs, clients, or justice community. Below are materials distributed at the conference.

Technology Planning

• Components of a Technology Plan (120kb)
• Reviewing a Statewide Tech Plan (54kb)

Project Management & Evaluations

• Roadmap to Implementing Your Technology Grant (154kb)
• TIG Evaluation Framework and Instruments
• Client Website Instruments - Summary of Components, Objectives, Questions and Instruments/Methods

Website Tools and Information

• Proposed Outline for a Statewide Website Plan (163kb)

Usability of Content

• Low-Literacy Education: Is your English Document Ready? (512kb)
• Low-Literacy Education Checklist for Printed Documents (525kb)
• Web Accessibility Education Checklist (534kb)

Technology Topics

• Telephone Technology (1.1mb)
• Videoconferencing: General Information (82kb)
• Videoconferencing: Overview of the Basics (94kb)
• Document Assembly (335kb)

Working with Vendors

• Pinetree Materials (143kb)

Click on the icon to the right to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Click on the following link to access Adobe's conversion tool that coverts PDF files to HTML files.