There is huge social power on the Internet!
According to the Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2012 regular internet users – those that use the internet at least once a week – currently represent 67.5% of the population of Europe. But they’re not only passive users – thanks to the Web 2.0 technology they can also create the Web. Every day people and communities share knowledge and skills, give advices, support each other on forums and do many different things we call:
E-volunteering
The „Bieszczady 2.0. Rozwój zasobów organizacji dzięki technologiom informacyjno-komunikacyjnym”publication contains professional articles about: Continue reading
We’d like to present a report showing the variety of social activities undertaken by Internet users. It is worth notice, that besides of using chats and social media, they also engage themselves into many voluntary actions. Enjoy! :)
We are happy to introduce you to the first Polish study on various forms and values of volunteering. In 2011 our researchers went across whole Poland looking for answers for questions such as: what face aspects of modern volunteering are? Who a volunteer in 21st century is? Continue reading
The “E-volunteering at NGOs and at schools” project was a pilotage study conducted by Huber Borowski and Łukasz Ostrowski, in order to provide advice to ongoing activities of E-volunteering Programme and selection of the strategy for further development of the portal www.e-wolontariat.pl. We wanted to make it a source of information about the condition and possibilities of developing e-volunteering in NGOs and secondary schools in Poland.
Thanks to our experience from Polish “Odkryj e-wolontariat” and ‘Discover e-volunteering‘ competition we have discovered 8 types of e-volunteering:
On our website we wrote about: what e-volunteering is, what are the rules for its operation and even what you cannot call e-volunteering. Briefly speaking, e-volunteering is different from traditional volunteering only in formal terms: E-volunteers use primarily online tools in their work (e-mail, online calendars, tools for document sharing, social networking, etc.) and use them to communicate with each other, with the organizers and the target group. Relationships established through the network are just as strong and reliable as those that arise in the real world. Similar challenges need to be faced by volunteer coordinators as well.
Are all the e-volunteers programmers?
Definitely not! Of course, to be e-volunteer basic skills in using of the computers and the Internet are essential. But yet, to do the vast majority of e-volunteering tasks handling Web Browsers and e-mail accounts is sufficient. Many of the tasks for virtual volunteers requires specialized knowledge or skills, but those are not always computer skills. E-volunteering can be art, logo designed for your organization, or a lawyer providing free advice online.
The Internet affects our lives every day. Hardly any can spend a day without checking their mails or favourite social websites. One can find e-shopping, e-dating and e-books already. E-volunteering guarantees the future of the voluntary sector, which is why it is worth taking to it today.