A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use online technology to communicate with their supporters and donors.
The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs from Africa, Asia, Australia & Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America.
Over the last two decades the NGO sector has embraced Internet technology, but at varying speeds based upon the Internet infrastructure of the country in which they reside. Social, economic, and political factors in each of the world’s countries have either hastened or hindered the development of Internet infrastructure, yet there is little research that compares NGOs globally and their use of online technology. The majority of data available is based on the NGO sector in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia and cannot be applied to the vast majority of NGOs operating worldwide.
To address this gap in research, this report set out to provide better in sight into online technology and its use within the global NGO sector. The primary goals were to:
- Set a baseline of data points about NGOs and their use of online technology across continents;
- Better understand how trends in web and email communications, online fundraising, and social media vary from continent to continent; and
- Provide a set of basic benchmarks in online technology use by continent so that NGOs worldwide have a better understanding of their own online technology use.
Hat tip to Jim Lynch !!!