Self-Organized Social Solidarity (SoSS) Initiatives in Greece: Exploring Their Scope and Their Relationship to Online Media

2. I.T. Use By Civil Society Organizations: Technology- And Organization-Related Issues

Many different types of organizations can be found in civil society that are likely to differ considerably from one another in terms of the ways they use information technology and arrange their internal structure and organizational relations. Some well-known (Saeed et al, 2008) such types of organizations include community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activist groups, think tanks, cultural groups as well as informal citizens organizations and cooperatives.

In recent years, the number of these organizations is constantly growing due to the fact that the problems which societies and citizens face are also growing at a fast pace. At the same time, information technology advancements offer a multitude of new possibilities for organizing and communicating that until a few years ago were not available at all, or at least not for lay people with no specialized technical knowledge.