volunteerism and ict for development un volunteers is administered by the united nations development...
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Volunteerism and ICTfor Development
UN Volunteers is administered by the United Nations Development Programme
Web4Dev Conference, November 2006
Invisible resource
Volunteerism?Volunteerism?
• Capacity building
Volunteering 4 ICTVolunteering 4 ICT
• Awareness raising
• Software’s development
• Content’s development
• Volunteering modalities
ICT 4 VolunteeringICT 4 Volunteering
• Volunteers’ recruitment and management tools
• Promotion and knowledge-sharing methods
The OV service connects,
over the Internet,
development organizations
with volunteers worldwide
and supports their effective online collaboration
www.onlinevolunteering.orgwww.onlinevolunteering.org
• Provide technical expertise and tools
• Support the management of project and resources
• Contribute to developing and managing knowledge
• Facilitate communication and networking
Online VolunteersOnline Volunteers
• The NGO is better known and reaches a global audience
• It has developed partnerships• It has mobilized additional resources
ExampleExample
Support web site development
• Informed decision making and programming
• Improved organizational management
• Enhanced project delivery
• Increased social capital
Development outcomesDevelopment outcomes
• 60,000 registered users
• 900 host organizations
• 2,500 assignments/y
• 2,000 online volunteers/y
o 171 nationalities
o 60 per cent women
o 40 per cent from developing countries
FiguresFigures
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