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Case
studies & Examples
Regarding Internet-Mediated Volunteering
in European Countries
The final report featured case studies of organisations that are involving
online volunteers on a large scale, or that involve traditional volunteers
and can offer insights into the challenges of adopting practices around
Internet-mediated volunteering. Case study stories were gathered via a
survey
email or online conferencing. Semi-structured interviews were used).
Descriptive / explanatory questions were used and were refined over the
course of interviews, so as to solicit more exactly the information
needed, meaning that the interviewer's questions changed somewhat over the
course of interviews. These interviews were meant to be conversational,
rather than a strict question-and-answer model, to create a sense of ease
and comfort in sharing information. Interviews were conducted via email,
traditional phone or via Internet-connected conferencing (voice-only).
Case studies will not appear on this wiki; they will be in the final paper
only.
The case studies profile the following organisations regarding their
involvement of traditional, onsite volunteers, their perceptions of
Internet-mediated volunteering and, in many cases, their involvement of
online volunteers:
Bodywhys,
The Eating Disorders Association of Ireland, Ireland
Dutch
Council for Refugees, Amsterdam, Netherlands
E-wolontariat,
Warsaw, Poland
HelpFromHome,
U.K.
hazloposible.org,
Madrid, Spain
medica
mondiale, Köln (Cologne), Germany
NOW,
Belfast, Northern Island, U.K.
In researching candidates for possible case studies, as well as
undertaking other aspects of this research, two resources were compiled as
annexes for the final paper, and are shared here on the wiki:
To identify possible candidates for case studies, a number of online
outreach
efforts were undertaken. In addition, the following organizations
were among those that were contacted directly between the start of April
and the start of July 2013 about this research:
- Organizations listed under this page of Resources
related to volunteer engagement and volunteerism in EU countries
- The UN's Online
Volunteering Service , which is an online matching service for
thousands of NGOs and agencies worldwide to involve online volunteers;
often, online volunteers matched with an NGO through this service
continue to volunteer online with that NGO, outside of the UN's
service.
- Members
of UKVPMs (volunteer managers in the UK)
- OneWorld
(back in 2003, this organization was heavily involved in
internet-mediated volunteering, and did a workshop at the second WSIS
in Geneva)
- Betobe:
network of online volunteering in English, French and Spanish.
- European participants in LibroVox
- Project
Gutenberg Europe
- e-wolontariat
(e-volunteering Poland)
- Germany hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2006. They recruited, trained
and supported volunteers all across Germany to help with the event; no
doubt the Internet played an important role in their screening,
training and support for volunteers - however, the ICT4EMPL
researchers are still seeking a contact to talk to about this
- cibervoluntarios.org-
una entidad con una visión utilizar las nuevas tecnologías para
potenciar la innovación social y propiciar el empoderamiento
ciudadano, es decir, queremos aumentar los derechos, las oportunidades
y capacidades que tiene cada persona dentro de su entorno gracias al
uso de las herramientas y aplicaciones tecnológicas que están a su
alcance.
- HacesFalta.org,
based in Spain
- xarxanet.org
and voluntariat.org/,
based in Catalunya
- HelpFromHome,
which is based in the UK
- Cherie
Blair Foundation.org - online mentoring, based in the UK, to
mentor women entrepreneurs in developing countries
- ManufacturingChange.org
- online volunteers provide practical support to organisations that
create social change in developing countries through manufacturing and
production related activities.
- Nabuur,
a Netherlands based not-for-profit-foundation that has been engaged in
online volunteering for more than a decade; was one of the largest
users of the UN's Online Volunteering Service. The organizations using
this service to engage with online volunteers are several hundred.
Also contacted were several of the following TechSoup affiliates and
Wikimedia/Wikipedia efforts based in Europe:
TechSoup European partners
- Fundacja
TechSoup (Poland)
- SOCIALware,
(Belgium)
- TechSoup
Bulgaria, operated in partnership with Workshop
for Civic Initiatives Foundation
- TechSoup
Croatia, operated in partnership with The
Association for an Independent Media Culture (H-Alter) and the Partners
for Good Foundation.
- TechSoup
Česká Republika operated in partnership with the Via
Foundation and the Charta
77 Foundation
- AdB
Solidatech, operated by Ateliers du Bocage (AdB), the social
economy branch of Emmaüs
France.
- Stifter-helfen.de
– IT for Nonprofits, the IT donation project of Stiftungszentrum.de
(Germany)
- CivilTech
is operated by Nonprofit
Information and Training Centre Foundation (NIOK), (Hungary)
- ENCLUDEit
Programme is brought to Ireland by ENCLUDE,
an independent nonprofit IT consultancy service to the Irish Nonprofit
Sector
- TechSoup
Italia, a collaborative effort of Banco
Informatico Tecnologico e Biomedico (BITeB)
- TechSoup.NL,
SOCIALware, in partnership with Stichting
GeefGratis (Netherlands)
- Asociatia
TechSoup (Romania)
- infoDonor
, operated by The
Institute of the Information Society (IIS). IIS i(Russia)
- TechSoup
Slovakia, operated by The
Pontis Non Profit Organization
- TechSoup
Slovenia, operated in partnership with MISSS
(Youth Information and Counselling Center in Slovenia)
- Proyecto
Dono, the IT donation programme for Technosite
in Spain.
- TechSoup
Sverige, the IT donation programme of National
Forum for Voluntary Social Work,(Sweden)
- Charity
Technology Exchange (CTX) is the IT donation programme of
Charity Technology Trust. Charity
Technology Trust (CTT) empowers British charities
Wikipedia - European language sites