Revised with new information as of
October 19, 2016
The Wiki / Knowledge base for
"Internet-mediated volunteering
- the impact for Europe"
Part of the ICT4EMPL Future Work project
This ICT4EMPL wiki is
no longer updated. It is posted here for archival purposes only. External
links, if and when they become broken, will NOT be
fixed. The
contents of this wiki are as such was on October 31, 2013.
The wiki used to be hosted at https://ict4empl.wikispaces.com/
The ICT4EMPL Future Work project aimed to inform policy of new forms of
work and pathways to employability mediated by ICTs - Information
and Communications Technologies. The web site was at http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu,
but as of July 2021, it has been taken down). The overall ICT4EMPL
project produced a series of reports on the state of play of novel forms
of internet-mediated work activity: crowd-sourced labour,
crowdfunding, internet-mediated volunteering and internet-mediated
work exchange (timebanks and complementary currency).
This wiki is a knowledge base to inform the
final report, published in 2013, describing the state of the
art of knowledge on internet-mediated
volunteering in general, in the different European traditions,
specifically related to either the adoption of online and mobile ways of
operating by volunteering services, or new 'born-digital' schemes.
Note: the UK was included in the report
because, at that time, the UK was a part of the EU.
If you want to see the original web site, go to archive.org
and cut and paste http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu. The paper was
originally posted at http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC85755.pdf.
This activity was explored in relation to key themes of opportunities
for entrepreneurship and self employment, skills and social inclusion,
and transition from education to employment
for young people. Social inclusion and how online tools could
address such was explored at this URL, available now only from archive.org:
http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/eInclusion.html
If you are interested in virtual volunteering, not just as it applies to
Europe but as it is undertaken worldwide, please see the Virtual
Volunteering Wiki, which continues to be updated.
For more information on how organizations can leverage
Internet-mediated volunteering, see:
Completely revised and updated, & includes
lots more advice about microvolunteering!
Published January 2014.
The ICT4EMPL wiki is now hosted by Jayne
Cravens, who is also its author. She is NOT an employee of the
European Commission.
For information on the ICT4EMPL project not already covered in this
blog, for information regarding the future of the project, or for
information on any European Commission projects, contact jrc-ipts-is-NEWS@ec.europa.eu
The
Last Virtual Volunteering
Guidebook 