BUILDING AN E-COMMUNITY OF IRANIAN NGOS

The Iranian Civil Society is developing very fast. Hundreds of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are engaged in a process of socio-organizational networking, which is mainly coordinated by two resource centers in Teheran. The paper presents experiences with the technological support of this networking process. The introduction of an Iranian NGO Community System (based on a groupware system BSCW) is described referring to a process model of integrated organization and technology development (OTD). Training measures and efforts of socio-organizational and technological developments are analyzed and mechanisms of coordinating the networking e-community are presented.

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