A Multi-Setting Study on ICT Practices within a Voluntary Swimming Sector

Eshraghi, Ali

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Title

A Multi-Setting Study on ICT Practices within a Voluntary Swimming Sector

Author(s)

Eshraghi, Ali

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• voluntary sector organisations
• information and communication technologies
• Volunteer as Social Actor
• extended settings
• infrastructural technologies

Abstract

This note firstly summaries my interdisciplinary doctoral research on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) and then reports some developing discussion based on the generated data. Similar to other business firms and governmental agencies these organisations have also proliferated with ICTs, however, the literature is still limited in terms of insights needed to explain the process of (non-)adoption and (non-)use of digital initiatives within the sector. This research seeks to unfold the complexity of the shaping of ICT through a case of swimming sector which mostly operates on the voluntary basis. Using the approach of Social Informatics and by investigating the dynamics of ICT practices, my study seeks to understand the arrangement of such practices and hence to add to our understanding about challenges surrounding IT project in the sector. The high turnover of volunteers, the cruciality of volunteering time offered into organisation, the infrastructural nature of old software and platforms are some examples of such challenges. It also should be mentioned that this note is a developed version of the poster I presented at the iConference 2013 and also my proposal for the ECIS 2013 doctoral consortium.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47261

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https://doi.org/10.9776/14397

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