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Tech futures for charities
The document discusses how technology is driving change in the voluntary sector. It outlines several trends in technology including devices becoming cheaper, more powerful, connected, mobile, and location-aware. It then examines how these technology trends could impact different functions of non-profit organizations, such as resource gathering through fundraising and volunteering, grantmaking, reporting, campaigning, service delivery, membership models, and internal operations. The document argues that technology presents opportunities for non-profits but also challenges existing models.
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- 1. Tech for Good Howtechnology is driving change in the voluntary sector Karl Wilding, NCVO Twitter: @karlwilding National Council for Voluntary Organisations Championing volunteering and civil society
- 2. GROWING UP INA DIGITAL WORLD
- 3. GROWING UP INA DIGITAL WORLD 1990s 2010s
- 4. SOME OF THEMAIN TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY? • Cheaper • More powerful • Simpler: the post-PC world • Connected: always-on, inter-connected • Growth: pervasive and ubiquitous (Google ‘Shift Happens’) • Embedded • Mobile • Location aware • Open (software, standards, data, culture)
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- 8. WHAT DOES ALLTHIS MEAN FOR THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR? We can think about how tech will shape the different functions of organisations: 1. Resource gathering: fundraising, financing, volunteering, sharing 2. Resource distribution: grantmaking 3. Reporting: outcomes, M&E, data visualisation 4. Campaigning, influencing and communications 5. Service delivery: digital by default? 6. Membership: still relevant? 7. Running the organisation: governance, transaction processes, managing the workforce, managing stakeholders
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- 14. COMMUNICATIONS: THE NEEDTO BE A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
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- 19. Thankyou Follow me! Twitter: @karlwilding Readmy blog! Google: NCVO Karl Wilding