MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ACTIVITIES OF RUSSIAN NGOs: MAIN TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTATION TYPOLOGIES

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that almost all volunteer organizations use volunteer technologies and only some implement innovative technologies. These technologies expand the range of opportunities for NGO volunteers and at the same time these technologies carry certain risks. The problem of the study is that these technologies have not yet been studied in detail. The article presents the main types of technologies, specifically digital innovative ones, that Russian NGOs and other volunteering organizations use in their activities, and, in particular, in emergency situations. The purpose of the study is to make a typology of these technologies. The method of content analysis of NGOs and volunteer organizations’ websites was used, as well as secondary analysis of data proposed in foreign and Russian articles on the current topic. 412 NGOs of various fields (from socially-oriented to event-oriented) throughout Russia were selected based on the lists of NGOs presented on the Ministry of Justice website, as well as those compiled as a result of a search for key queries on the Internet. In conclusion, possible grounds for classification and creation of a typology of volunteer technologies were made. There were specific differences: volunteers in emergency situations and ecologists, unlike volunteers in other areas, use digital technologies that require special skills (monitoring technologies, GIS-systems and other applications for coordinating search activities, etc.), while volunteers in other areas work more with technologies that are accessible to a wide range of users, in particular, communication technologies and marketing. The research value results in the systematization of volunteer technologies, and the practical significance of the research lies in the ability of stakeholders to use the results of this research.