Volunteers Apply ICTs and Contribute to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

People all over the world are contributing as volunteers in developing countries to apply and build others' capacities in information and communication technologies (ICT):

From an ocean away, Sarah has made use of her technical training to assist an NGO in its training of local youth to use the Internet to do research for various school projects.

Ngozi from Nigeria has collaborated online with a Sub-Saharan African community service organization to write funding proposals in an effort to provide safe drinking water to shanty tenements and slums.

After 20 years in the Chilean health sector, a group of middle-aged professionals have collectively decided to volunteer time and expertise to advise poor pregnant mothers using telecentres on ways to keep themselves healthy during initial maternal years.

The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS), led by the UN Volunteers programme, promotes volunteering as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D efforts, and promotes ICT as a tool for volunteers engaged in development. In conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), UNITeS is gathering and posting examples of such "ICT volunteering", and linking each to its relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and MDG targets.

Many of these stories were gathered by online volunteers recruited through UN Volunteers' Online Volunteering service.

Browse through our collection of stories and see the myriad number of ways volunteers are applying ICT4D to help combat HIV/AIDS, ensure environmental health and stability, promote gender equality, and achieve other vital development goals.

We want to increase this list and to publicize your ICT volunteering stories! Please see our story submission page for more information.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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