Towards Goal-Oriented Recommender- and DataSpace-Driven Volunteering

Voluntary engagement is an indispensable cornerstone of Critical
Infrastructures (CI) such as civil protection, disaster, crisis and
rescue management as well as health and social services.
Sustainability of the voluntary sector, however, is massively
endangered by profound changes in demography, social
structure, and volunteer motives in the sense of individualization
and pluralization of society. This paper tackles these key
challenges by giving an overview on our digital platform for goaloriented volunteering across and independently of different nonprofit organizations. This platform is intended to be a first step
towards synergistically aligning the goals and competencies of
volunteers with the activity requirements of CI by proposing first
ideals on using recommender and dataspace technologies.