1. Why do I need eCollab?

Have you and/or your organisation ever faced the following issues?

• I have problems with communication such as email proliferation, email loss or information repetition.
• I wonder how secure my communication medium are.
• I have problems sharing important ideas, websites, articles and events with other group members.
• I find it difficult to have effective brainstorming sessions or collaborative research discussions due to geographical distance.
• I have problems with task management, assigning and prioritising tasks, keeping up to date with the progress of the research project and tracking the work of individual group members.
• I often lose or misplace data because it is not systematically backed-up.
• There are sub-groups in the project who would benefit from information channelling and restriction.
• We have group cohesion problems due to geographical separation.
• We have reports, working papers, summaries or other files that need to be accessed online.
• Our current website has multimedia problems such as a non-user-friendly interface, poor graphics or difficulties with uploading and inserting photos and videos.
• We lack in-house expertise in digital platforms, website design and Web2.0. We had no training in how to use online collaboration technologies or the project website.
• Our website has low rankings in Google searches. Is it difficult to Google our pages.