There comes a time, usually if you’re working remotely or have no office, where you really need a way to share files, documents, messages and pictures online between a lot of people for free.

Easy, I said at my last Amnesty International meeting, we’ll just set up a Google non-profits account - all their project management tools are free. No thanks, they said, we refuse to use Google because of their human rights record.

I am sure the look on my face was priceless as I tried to think what Google’s human rights problems could be. I have a cousin who works at Google. They pay her, feed her, they let her do laundry, they send her to lectures… as far as I can see she’s not abused. But of course, Amnesty wasn’t talking about that. They were talking about China, the ‘Golden Shield’ campaign and Google’s complicity in blocking access to information. Say it ain’t so, Google! For goodness sake, we’re talking about a company whose motto is ‘Don’t Be Evil’.

Now, Google of course has explained that when they made the decision to censor, they actually did an ‘evil scale’ and they picked the lesser of two evils (that is, censorship over no Google at all in China). Wherever you come down on this issue, I was still facing a group of volunteers who needed to work online - and they weren’t about to use Google.

So here’s two other free project management sites you can use...