## 1. Practical Support This involves **hands-on, day-to-day administrative/back-office support**, including: - **Travel and scheduling arrangements**. - **Technical support**: Helpdesk for IT, basic troubleshooting, and digital tool configuration. - **Graphic design assistance**: Creating flyers, web assets, presentations, etc. - **Event production**: Organising digital or in-person gatherings, ticketing, hosting responsibility, catering advice, and post-event reviews. - **Editorial services**: Fact-checking, proofreading, formatting help for publishing material (books, articles, conference proceedings). - **Archiving and media management**: Uploading, storing, and cataloguing digital assets (videos, photos, documents) with proper metadata. - **Financial administration**: Managing cash flow, budgeting, contracts, and possibly integrating innovative tools such as time banking|time bank or community currency for peer-to-peer exchanges and compensation within the Academy. - **Support request brokerage**: If a fellow needs, for example, fact-checking or editorial help, the Towel Team can match requests with volunteers or skilled individuals from the wider network. To ensure fair and effective allocation of these resources, budgeting systems like digital time banks may be used, allowing Hitchhikers to exchange skills and support in a decentralised, community-driven manner.
# See 1. Payments and Cashflow 1. Illustrator and Graphic Design 1. Editorial 1. Archivist and Media Pipeline 1. Event Production 1. Hard Science Fact Checking