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This workpackage is dedicated to the potential of digital technologies to include practitioners and vulnerable citizens in co-construction processes. It will focus on recent innovations in the field: digital volunteerism (DC12), digital contact between services and carers for older adults (DC13), digital platform to support co-construction involving people with disabilities (DC14), crisis management in social organisations (DC15).

This research aims to :

  • Study current innovations in digital volunteerism and research impacts in different spheres related to helping others
  • Explore the specificities of civil society actors in Poland that do not have broad attention in voluntary sector studies
  • Case study of 3 e-volunteering initiatives (interviews with volunteers, volunteer coordinators, NPOs managers, and representatives of public authorities)
  • Identify new forms of challenges and barriers to digital social inclusion and how to overcome them
  • Explore how the knowledge is created, used and shared within the digital volunteering space.

Through this research project, the doctoral student will :

  • Investigate the experiences of older adults when participating in technologically mediated care using participatory and practice research methodology.
  • Compare and contrast the assumptions of what participation is from (older adult, formal and informal carers, and the technology)
  • Explore different temporalities of the lives of older adults, the work of formal and informal carers, and function of technology.

This project will critically analyze the accessibility of co-construction processes in bidok through internet ethnography, platform usage data, interviews, and workshops to:

  • Assess the diversity of bidok content, contributors and readers in order to understand exclusion in digital co-construction projects. 
  • Review the accessibility of the platform for persons with disabilities and diverse access needs. 
  • Analyse how the platform and its users (authors, readers, experts) co-construct content and knowledge about disability rights. 
  • Investigate how users interact with each other and develop a feeling a digital community.

To reach the target objectives of this research, the doctoral student will :

  • Understand the collaborative processes and social interactions used to develop the integrated digital tool; 
  • Evaluate the impact of this new digital tool perceived by stakeholders in the NGO’s and social services related to social emergency and health in the community; 
  • Assess and evaluate (on a study-case approach basis) the outputs and outcomes of digital co-construction on the organisational management processes at SCMA level.