About IT Can Help
Who’s behind the Network?
IT Can Help is a programme of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and provides service and support to the community, including
individual practitioners, employers of IT staff and the general public.
IT Can Help originally began life as I.T.-Can-Help.
The project was devised by Ken Stoner, who was himself severely disabled by Motor Neurone Disease. Ken Stoner joined the Board of BCS Disability Group (BCS-DG) in 1992. Sadly Ken passed away in 2006 and you can read his obituary by clicking "here". The project was launched in 1994 following a two year development programme. IT Can Help aims to address the current shortfall in the availability of technical assistance for disabled people using computers.
The programme is funded through the Social Responsibility Committee of BCS, with additional support since 2006/7 from the Marchday Trust.