Development Cooperation 2.0 (VII): Conclusions
Use of ICTs in development cooperation models
- More efficacy, based on knowledge-intensive projects
- Usefulness must drive the implementation of ICTs, not hype
- ICTs for a better nonprofit performance and for better project results
- Learn from ICT adoption in developing countries and apply them in developed ones
- ICTs challenge the traditional design of the nonprofit sector
- Capacity building a must for nonprofits to benefit from ICTs
- Usability, accessibility, content, sustainability
- e-Governance to enhance citizen engagement
Networked cooperation
- A necessary response to the Network Society
- Shift from hierarchy to horizontal interaction
- Human networks boosted by technological networks
- Knowledge sharing
- Project-centered cooperation, enabling inclusion
- Multistakeholder partnerships
- Decentralized networks for collaboration, while keeping autonomy
- Centralized networks still useful for certain actions
- Networking requires (network) managing skills
- The network must be properly designed, in transparent ways, making its goals explicit, lead it through confidence
- Network design and building as investment in research, development and innovation
ICTs in the Spanish Development Cooperation
- Great advances in the last times that draw an optimistic future
- Networking to seek harmonization between organizations
- Quality fostering
- ICTs to achieve leadership/excellence in development cooperation
- Effort to share both experiences and capabilities
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