Elucidation of the mechanism of volunteer participation and development of information system for volunteer acquisition

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350440
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: MAEDA Yasunobu 静岡大学, 工学部, 教授 (60270980)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 淺野 敏久 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (00284125) ; 森 保文 国立研究開発法人国立環境研究所, 社会環境システム研究センター, 主席研究員 (30174387)
• Research Collaborator: INUDUKA Hiromasa ; SUGIURA Shogo ; IGEI Naoya ; NEMOTO Kazuyoshi
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ボランティア / 情報システム / ボランティア機会理論 / コストベネフィット / 環境活動 / NPO / SNS

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to understand the mechanism of participation of environmental volunteers and acceptance of volunteers by NPOs and to develop an information system for volunteer acquisition based on the understanding. Firstly, it is found that the main layers of volunteers in conventional environmental groups are in 50-60 age groups, and their use of ICT is mainly websites and e-mail, while SNS is not popular in them. Secondly, young generation in environmental activities tends to make new groups and to communicate using ICT in different ways with conventional groups. Thirdly, it is shown that volunteer participation is irrelevant to cost-benefit relationship. Based on these results, “Boraishi” the information system for volunteer acquisition is developed.

Free Research Field

環境情報システム