I’ve been starting to think beyond digital activism into digital civil society, beyond the digital actions take by civic actors to the system and institutions of which they are a part. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how the use of digital technology:
- Changes the dynamics of existing nonprofit organizations, particularly with regard to fundraising and membership.
- Creates new types of fast, cheap, participatory, often ephemeral organizations with fuzzy organizational boundaries and networked structures.
- Changes the ways these organizations – and unaffiliated individuals – interact with one another.
I’ve put some of my initial ideas in the presentation below, which I gave in Chile a couple of weeks ago.
great slides, Mary, thanks for sharing
Thanks Patrick!
Mary – this, and your table in the other blog post, is excellent. It reflects some of the things we’ve been thinking about for a bit in terms of the disruptive nature of the internet on voluntary organisations and how we ‘do’ social good. I’ll try and blog my thoughts in response, but my initial thought is it needs a bit more about data – the sort of stuff Lucy Bernholz has been writing about.
Top stuff
Karl
Mary
Found this through a tweet from @KarlWilding. Would love to learn more about what you’re doing – Digital Civil Society is a frame we’re thinking a lot about at Stanford
http://pacscenter.stanford.edu/overview/research/recoding-good
Lucy Bernholz