Fundación Cibervoluntarios
Our pledge
We are a Spanish NGO pioneers since 2001 in social use of technologies to generate social innovation and digital empowerment through citizen participation and technological volunteering. Our main focus is training on digital skills people in a situation of digital vulnerability, of different collectivities (elderly people, people with disabilities, migrant people and refugees, peoples with low income, unemployed, teenagers and young people, etc.
To carry out our activities, we count on more than 3,000 cybervolunteers and collaborate with around 2,000 grassroots organisations (municipalities, NGOs of different collectivities, educational centres and Universities) all around Spain a 30% of them in rural areas. Thanks to these networks, we reach around 60.000 people annually, who improve their lives thanks to the use of useful ICT Tools. All info on our projects is available at our website, cibervoluntarios.org
Background
We carry out programs at a regional, national and European level. In this sense, we have participated in European projects within different programs, with pilot actions and solution testing with ICT Living Labs, focus groups, research, dissemination and communication, and UX design. Our experience in European Projects includes the coordination of 5 Erasmus+ projects (KA204, KA205, KA220-ADU, KA220-YOU and KA2220-SCH) and participation in others as partners, as well as in AMIF, EfC, CEF Telecom, Digital Europe.... Also the coordination of a H2020 project and the participation in another 3 Horizon 2020 and many Horizon Europe, one of them NextGenerationEU. As an example, we have developed an innovative platform supported by the United Nations, through an agreement signed with UNITAR, to promote Citizen Participation for the SDGs (www.empodera.org).
Cibervoluntarios was selected by Financial Times as one of the 100 pioneer entities in Digital Transformation in Europe in 2018, and some of its projects have obtained prizes, both at a National and a European level.
