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Questions
and Obstacles To Explore
This part of the overall
ICT4EMPL
Future Work project will produce an overview report on the state of
play of novel forms of internet-mediated work activity: virtual
volunteering, microvolunteering, crowd-sourced labour, crowdfunding,
internet-mediated volunteering, internet-mediated work exchange (timebanks
and complementary currency), etc., with regard to developing
entrepreneurship and self employment, skills and social inclusion, and
transition from education to employment for young people in the European
Union.
These are the core issues that this part of the overall
ICT4EMPL
Future Work project is exploring:
(1) The lack of widely-available online volunteering work in the
EU, compared to, say, in the USA, may include:
- lack of support at charities, NGOs and other organizations for the
engagement of volunteers (online or off); support includes staffing,
knowledge and funding
- lack of understanding regarding the value of volunteer engagement,
in general (not just online) for a charity or NGO
- lack of awareness or understanding regarding online volunteering
- lack of availability of online tools at charities, NGOs and other
organizations for the engagement of online volunteers (many
organizations have prohibitions instituted by senior management or the
IT department with regard to using social media, VOiP technologies
like Skype, or cloud-based platforms)
If you are based in the EU and have comments about the above possible
reasons as to why there is not more online volunteering opportunities in
the EU or for EU citizens, or your own ideas about possible reasons,
please submit your ideas to send an email to Jayne Cravens at at
www.coyotebroad.com/me/contact.html
(2) For organizations based in the EU that are involving
volunteers online in any way:
- Why did your organization start involving volunteers online?
- What did you have to do or change at your organization to start
involving volunteers online?
- How have you evaluated the impact of the work of online volunteers
at your organization (and if you have not evaluated the impact, why
not?)
- Have any of the volunteers who have contributed to your organization
somehow online said that their online volunteering experience lead to
paid work, to their greater employability or to career advancement?
If you are based in the EU and work for an organization based in the EU,
as a paid employee, consultant or volunteer, and this organization
involves volunteers online in any way, please send your answers to the
questions under item #3 to Jayne Cravens.
(3) Obstacles to leveraging online volunteering work into greater
employability/career advancement in the EU may include:
- lack of available online volunteering work
- lack of awareness of this type of volunteering among those
seeking/needing employment
- perceptions among potential employers regarding the value of
volunteering, online or onsite, for application to paid work ("it's
just volunteering" or "you
were just volunteering, rather than really
working")
What about
- lack of computer or Internet access?
- lack of basic skills needed to engage as a volunteer online?
- lack of literacy?
If you are based in the EU and have comments regarding the above, or have
other suggestions regarding obstacles to people who are unemployed or
under-employed in Europe leveraging online volunteering experience to
increase their employability, please submit your ideas to send an email to
Jayne Cravens.
Also see:
Challenges
to this research (obstacles we're facing in gathering information)
Wiki
Contents
- More about
the overall project & researchers
- About
Internet-mediated volunteering
- The
information we are seeking / How to submit information
- Outreach for this project
- Challenges to
this research (obstacles faced in gathering information)
- Case studies
(Europe focus)
- Online
Volunteering-related recruitment or matching web sites
- Organisations that involve
online volunteers in the EU
- Resources related to volunteering as a contributor to employability
- Resources related to
arguments against and concerns about volunteering by
unions/professionals in Europe
- Resources and research
related to Internet-mediated volunteering (focused on, but not
limited to, Europe)
- Resources related
to telecommuting, virtual teams and remote management
- Legal status and regulations
regarding volunteers
- Resources
related to volunteer engagement and volunteerism in EU countries
statistics, studies, volunteer centres, volunteer matching sites,
sites for volunteers, sites for those that want to involve volunteers,
etc.
- Online work sites for
pay (rather than virtual volunteering sites, for no pay) -
examples and studies
- RSS feeds for
keywords associated with Internet-mediated volunteering
- Información en español
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