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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