(note: if any URL does not work, cut and paste it into archive.org).

In my last blog, I talked about how, at long last, my paper, Internet-mediated Volunteering in the EU:  Its history, prevalence, and approaches and how it relates to employability and social inclusion, had been published. My research was for the ICT4EMPL Future Work project undertaken by the Information Society Unit of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

The ICT4EMPL Future Work project aims to inform policy of new forms of work and pathways to employability in the European Union mediated by ICTs – Information and Communications Technologies. The ICT4EMPL research project is in the context of of implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy and the Digital Agenda for Europe. For more information, see Skills & Jobs, Digital Agenda for Europe.

The ICT4EMPL Future Work project developed, produced overview reports on the state of play of crowd-sourced labour, crowdfunding, internet-mediated volunteering and internet-mediated work exchange (timebanks and complementary currency). These activities were 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.

In addition to my paper, here are other papers published as part of the ICT4EMPL Future Work project, and almost all of them talk about volunteering in some way:

• The Potential of Time Banks to support Social Inclusion and Employability, by D. Boyle, Editor: James Stewart
• Exploratory research on Internet-enabled work exchanges and employability: Analysis and synthesis of qualitative evidence on crowdsourcing for work, funding and volunteers, by Anne Green, Maria de Hoyos, Sally-Anne Barnes, Beate Baldauf and Heike Behle, Editor: James Stewart
• CrowdEmploy Crowdsourcing Case Studies: An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of Crowdsourcing on Employability, by Anne Green, Maria de Hoyos, Sally-Anne Barnes, Beate Baldauf and Heike Behle, Editor: James Stewart
• ePractice Digital Literacy Workshop on Digital Competences for Social Inclusion Actors and Intermediaries, by Gabriel Rissola, Clara Centeno, ePractice communication team
• Exploratory research on Internet-enabled work exchanges and employability: Analysis and synthesis of qualitative evidence on crowdsourcing for work, funding and volunteers, by Anne Green, Maria de Hoyos, Sally-Anne Barnes, Beate Baldauf and Heike Behle, Editor: James Stewart
• Literature Review on Employability, Inclusion and ICT, Report 1: The Concept of Employability, with a Specific Focus on Young People, Older Workers and Migrants, by Anne Green, Maria de Hoyos, Sally‐Anne Barnes, David Owen, Beate Baldauf and Heike Behle, Editors: Clara Centeno and James Stewart
• Literature Review on Employability, Inclusion and ICT, Report 2: ICT and Employability, by Maria de Hoyos, Anne E. Green, Sally-Anne Barnes, Heike Behle, Beate Baldauf and David Owen, Editors: Clara Centeno and James Stewart
• The Potential of Digital Games for Empowerment and Social Inclusion of Groups at Risk of Social and Economic Exclusion: Evidence and Opportunity for Policy
  James Stewart, Lizzy Bleumers, Jan Van Looy, Ilse Mariën, Anissa All, Dana Schurmans, Koen Willaert, Frederik De Grove, An Jacobs, Gianluca Misuraca, Editor: Clara Centeno

Wish they had a way people could comment on the papers. Online discussions about these topics would further our learning about them.