Eva Pavlíková / Karel Minařík Expert volunteering is not a charity 

Introductions Eva Pavlíková CEO Karel Minařík CTO 

Four years ago… Jakub Nešetřil, the founder of Česko.Digital, had a talk at this very conference, explaining his vision for helping the digital transformation in Czechia. 

The vision for Česko.Digital Accelerate the effective use of digital tools in the public sphere. Meaning? 1] Non-governmental organizations 2] Public administration 3] Public institutions 

Debt verification „Would you click a button?“ Success or failure? Česko.Analog? 25K+ sent forms https://nedluzimstatu.cz 

2022, colorized 

Over 20 digital projects… https://cesko.digital/projects 

Over 20 digital projects… https://cesko.digital/projects 25M visits 

Over 20 digital projects… https://cesko.digital/projects 620 schools 

Over 20 digital projects… https://cesko.digital/projects 

Then, a war happened… 

Then, a war happened… Covid War https://join.cesko.digital 

Ukraine related projects https://blog.cesko.digital/2022/03/jake-projekty-pro-pomoc-ukrajine-vznikaji-v-cesko-digital 

https://blog.cesko.digital/2022/03/jake-projekty-pro-pomoc-ukrajine-vznikaji-v-cesko-digital Case study: Movapp 

Movapp: The project A web and mobile application for learning Czech and Ukrainian. Completely open source. First version: 3 people in 3 days. Ultimately: 25+ people over 3 months. 50K+ unique visitors. 250+ store downloads. 

Movapp: The tech stack Next.js application deployed to Vercel. iOS and Android publishing workflows, automated with Fastlane. Text-to-speech synthesis by Azure. Github Actions for continuous delivery. 

Case Study: Movapp A web and mobile application for learning Czech and Ukrainian. 

Movapp: People and roles Leadership, Management and Support 3 Web Development 4 Designers 2 Graphics and Illustration 2 UX Research 2 iOS Development 3 Android Development 2 Coordination and Administrative 1 Marketing and Copywriting 2 Testing and Quality Assurance 2 Language Content 3 Total 26 

Movapp: People and roles Leadership, Management and Support 3 Web Development 4 Designers 2 Graphics and Illustration 2 UX Research 2 iOS Development 3 Android Development 2 Coordination and Administrative 1 Marketing and Copywriting 2 Testing and Quality Assurance 2 Language Content 3 Total 26 11 / 26 ~ 40% 

Do NGOs dream of spreadsheets? DO YOU HAVE IMPACT? 

Let’s play a game… Five million dollars and 25 months? Hmm… 🤔 Let’s divide by 10. USD 533,389… CZK 12,267,965. Let’s divide by 10 again? Using standard COCOMO metrics. 

Let’s count some numbers… 25 people for CZK 70,000 per month… CZK 1,750,000 per month…. Let’s divide by five… CZK 350,000 per month… Multiply by three months… CZK 1,050,000. A million of Czech Crowns. And counting. 

OK. Let’s do some realistic estimation. 25 volunteers over 12 weeks… Each 2–10 hours per week… CZK 1K per hour… CZK 1,800,000 People Weeks Hrs/week CZK/h Sum 25 12 6 1000 CZ K‎ 1,800,000 

Numbers… Movapp is one of smallest projects we coordinate. Still, it would take almost 2,000 people to “crowdfund” a project like this, if everybody would contribute CZK 1,000. As an expert volunteer, you directly generate value. A lot of value. 

Expert volunteering Contributing money is essential for a broad impact. Contributing time is essential for connections and community. Contributing skills makes impact personal. Contributing digital skills makes impact scalable. 

Skills-based volunteering helps nonpro fi ts by democratizing high-skilled labor. As a result, nonpro fi ts gain seasoned experts (…) [and] nonpro fi t staff members (…) focus on what they do best: set the organizational vision and leverage their domain-speci fi c knowledge to aid their clients and communities. Expert volunteering https://www.toptal.com/insights/future-of-work/the-power-of-skills-based-volunteering „ 

Skills-based volunteering is a strategically driven activity that involves employees donating job-related skills and acquiring or developing skills through voluntary contributions to an external non-profit organization that requires certain skill sets. Skills-based volunteering https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105348222100053X „ 

Skills-based volunteering „ The very notion of skills-based volunteering may elicit the perception that it is designed to bene fi t the fi rm, employee, or both, in addition to the bene fi ciary. For many, this may undermine the purpose of volunteering: to give, not to gain. Although some research has shown that individuals tend to have positive responses toward personal development through volunteering (…) some volunteers became angry and defensive when they were asked whether they had learned from their volunteering experiences. (…) Volunteers suggested that it was immoral to insinuate that volunteering can be an avenue to skill development, presumably because it con fl icted with their primary motivation to volunteer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105348222100053X 

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