TY - GEN
T1 - (L)earning by doing –»Blockchainifying« life-long volunteer engagement
AU - Kapsammer, Elisabeth
AU - Pröll, Birgit
AU - Retschitzegger, Werner
AU - Schwinger, Wieland
AU - Starzer, Philipp
AU - Weißenbek, Markus
AU - Schönböck, Johannes
AU - Altmann, Josef
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Volunteering is a vital cornerstone of our society, ranging from social care to disaster relief, being supported by a plethora of web-based volunteer management systems (VMS). These VMS primarily focus on centralized task management within non-profit organizations (NPOs), lacking means for volunteers to privately digitize and exploit their engagement assets, e.g., task accomplishments or earned competences. This may decrease engagement, since appreciation of volunteer work is the only reward available, and hinders the exploitation of engagement assets between NPOs and beyond, e.g., the education or labor market. We put volunteers in the middle of concern by investigating “how can engagement be digitized and exploited in a life-long way”. First, based on a systematic identification of requirements for a trustful digitization and exploitation of engagement assets, a web-based volunteer ecosystem relying on emerging blockchain technology is proposed. Second, for representing various kinds of engagement assets, a generic and adaptable ontology is put forward. Third, for establishing trust across all stakeholders, a prototypical web application is presented allowing to»blockchainify« life long volunteer engagement. Finally, the prototype applies semantic web technologies to offer a machine readable form of engagement assets in terms of Linked Data (LD).
AB - Volunteering is a vital cornerstone of our society, ranging from social care to disaster relief, being supported by a plethora of web-based volunteer management systems (VMS). These VMS primarily focus on centralized task management within non-profit organizations (NPOs), lacking means for volunteers to privately digitize and exploit their engagement assets, e.g., task accomplishments or earned competences. This may decrease engagement, since appreciation of volunteer work is the only reward available, and hinders the exploitation of engagement assets between NPOs and beyond, e.g., the education or labor market. We put volunteers in the middle of concern by investigating “how can engagement be digitized and exploited in a life-long way”. First, based on a systematic identification of requirements for a trustful digitization and exploitation of engagement assets, a web-based volunteer ecosystem relying on emerging blockchain technology is proposed. Second, for representing various kinds of engagement assets, a generic and adaptable ontology is put forward. Third, for establishing trust across all stakeholders, a prototypical web application is presented allowing to»blockchainify« life long volunteer engagement. Finally, the prototype applies semantic web technologies to offer a machine readable form of engagement assets in terms of Linked Data (LD).
KW - Blockchain-Technology
KW - Knowledge Management
KW - Ontology
KW - Volunteer Management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091397079&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091397079
T3 - ICEIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
SP - 67
EP - 79
BT - ICEIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
A2 - Filipe, Joaquim
A2 - Smialek, Michal
A2 - Brodsky, Alexander
A2 - Hammoudi, Slimane
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2020
Y2 - 5 May 2020 through 7 May 2020
ER -