Call
for Participants: Study
of Online Social Economy Organizations
A graduate student at
OISE's Social Economy Centre
is seeking participants for a research study
of online social enterprises.
Details and contact information follow below
...
June 18, 2007
Looking for participants for a study attempting to identify and describe online organizations that meet the broad criteria applied to social economy enterprises.
Social economy enterprises are ones that have a strong social mission, are member or public oriented, depend in varying degrees on voluntary participation and support member engagement in democratic decision-making.
This study is searching for organizations or voluntary associations that subscribe to most of the above criteria and that also carry out a majority of their work online. This study is interested in organizations that communicate, organize, provide goods or services, fundraise, advocate, etc., primarily using information and communication technologies. Although many of these organizations engage in some face-to-face activity and may have geographic addresses, their defining characteristic is that they rely on internet-based technology to achieve organizational objectives.
Participation is entirely voluntary and participants are encouraged to provide only information that they are comfortable sharing. If privacy and confidentiality are of concern, please be assured that all respondents and responses will remain anonymous in any presentation of this research.
If you belong to, or know of, any such groups that fit the above criteria, please contact sryan@oise.utoronto.ca.
Sherida Ryan, Doctoral Student
The Social Economy Centre,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto(OISE/UT)
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