Volunteerism and ICT for Development UN Volunteers is administered by the United Nations Development...

Volunteerism and ICTfor Development

UN Volunteers is administered by the United Nations Development Programme

Web4Dev Conference, November 2006

Invisible resource

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• Capacity building

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• Awareness raising

• Software’s development

• Content’s development

• Volunteering modalities

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• 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

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• Provide technical expertise and tools

• Support the management of project and resources

• Contribute to developing and managing knowledge

• Facilitate communication and networking

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• The NGO is better known and reaches a global audience

• It has developed partnerships• It has mobilized additional resources

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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

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