e-SosyalBen is a concept that SocialBen Foundation prioritizes in it's works, develops ideas on it and is transformed into an opportunity with the cessation of physical work during the Covid-19 process.
As the SocialBen Foundation which is the new generation non-governmental organization, we continue to reach the SocialBen Children within the framework of e-Volunteering activities by enabling individuals to combine their expertise with social benefit through e-SosyalBen, through the online system.
Originally from Istanbul, Kaan graduated from Jacobs University Bremen in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Global Economics and Management. Following internships at Google and the Turkish Basketball Federation; Kaan has set his personal goal to leverage new technologies to change people's lives for the better. With that in mind, he joined LinkedIn in May 2015. Since then, Kaan has dedicated himself to help B2B enterprises across the NAMER and EMEA to sell more and better by adopting digital selling with LinkedIn. Outside of the professional realm, Kaan is the co-host of a Turkish sports business podcast. His current spare time obsessions are Galatasaray, learning Russian, and preparing for a triathlon in Italy. He also advises seed-stage startups and a Turkish non-profit organization on their GTM strategy.
Kaan Akkanat
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e-Volunteering,as known as Digital Volunteering, which comes together with the society for the first time with the help of SosyalBen Foundation and it allows everyone who has online access to become a partner in community work appears as a new path. It can be defined as a digital process in which individuals reach each other more easily, carry their sphere of influence beyond their surroundings and spread goodness. E-volunteering, which has been on the agenda of the European Parliament for two years and has examples in the international arena to lead the implementation in Turkey is very important for civil society organizations and corporate firms.
e-Volunteering activities create an important platform in terms of equal opportunity by removing the space and time barriers of volunteering. Volunteering on the web is like volunteering depends on being ready for altruism, willingness to help other people, improvement of the surrounding space, and devoted use of our time and skills.
970 applications were received through the e-Volunteering application form, which was open for 45 days. Individuals who were orientated and trained after the volunteer candidate interviews were entitled to become the e-Volunteer of the SosyalBen Foundation.
Digital Field;The Digital Field as a joint product of field activities and structured workshop programs that have been experienced until today was formed by the preparation of videos that will contribute to the development of children between the ages of 7 and 13. This study has been prepared with an incentive and inclusive content, and has been shaped in accordance with motivational enhancing qualities that can become widespread on a national scale, easily implemented by its followers. Workshop videos prepared within the scope of the Digital Field, in which SosyalBen e-volunteers are included, were delivered to children thanks to press support and the network of teachers and parents provided by previous studies. The training contents, designed as small introductions of the workshops, have been included in the implementation policies towards the goals of the institution as a new field branch of SosyalBen activities, as well as its improvable sides.
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18-19 May 2020
Digital Camping for Community;Young people from different cities between 14-25 ages came together online to find solutions and for problem analysis about committees related to ‘'Volunteering vs e-Volunteering’’, "Social Entrepreneurship in a Digitalized World" ve "Social Entrepreneurship as a Business / Career" for young people-especially between 14 and 25- to keep contributing to social benefit during social isolation that we implement due to Coronavirus pandemic which affects the world and our country deeply.
Digital Camping For Community has been realized in 2 stages. Following the related webinars of the committees, it was completed with the gathering of workshop groups. During the workshop, the participants came together with the guests who are experts on "Individual Volunteerism", "Corporate Volunteering", "Global Volunteering" as well as taking part in the solution groups of their committees. Finally, the comments of the young people who completed the digital camp by making a general evaluation are included in the report under the title of "Digital Camping For Community Participant Comments".
Click for Digital Camping For Community report: REPORT.
Digital Camping for Community I Dijitalleşen Dünya'da Sosyal Girişimcilik İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Gönüllülük vs e-Gönüllülük İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Bir İş/Kariyer Olarak Sosyal Girişimcilik İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Bireysel Gönüllülük İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Dijitalleşen Dünya'da Sosyal Girişimcilik İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping For Community | Global Gönüllülük İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Gönüllülük vs e-Gönüllülük İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping For Community | Ayşe Akın Dönmez İzlemek için Tıklayın!
Digital Camping for Community I Dijitalleşen Dünya'da Sosyal Girişimcilik İzlemek için Tıklayın!
27-28 February 2021
Digital Camping for Community focuses on identifying the problems experienced about the predetermined theme, creating solution groups, reporting the solutions and implementation stages by gathering people from different geographies and different cultures online. With Digital Camping for Community, it is aimed to develop sensitivity to social problems, development of observation and problem solving skills, effective communication and experience in group work.
27-28 February 2021 Digital Camping for Community; Each individual can shape his future by using his mind in a visionary and multidisciplinary way, benefiting from knowledge and technology, determining his future vision and considering the events that will affect him. Within this framework, the theme of the digital camp, which was held for the second time with more than 200 participants on 27-28 February 2021, was realized within the framework of "Futurism" in order to initiate the transformation we are in and the preparation of young people for new transformations. With the valuable point of view of young participants and experts, the digital transformation and the impact of this transformation on young people, the world we live in - the climate - and non-governmental organizations were discussed in three different dimensions in the World Citizenship in the 21st Century, the Climate of the Future: Activism and Civil Society 5.0 sessions.
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Click to watch the 21st Century World Citizenship, Future Climate: Activism and Civil Society 5.0 sessions at Digital Camping for Community.
e-Workshop;The e-Workshop serves as a pilot to move every application of SosyalBen .foundation in Turkey to the international arena. SosyalBen Foundation, which works with communities in 11 strategically located provinces in Turkey organizes e-Workshops so that young people can continue their work and contribute to capacity building in these days where the feedback and contributions of volunteers are very valuable. The SosyalBen Foundation finds the culture that the ability of the volunteers in 6 countries to benefit from each other's knowledge and experience and to adopt the concept of world citizenship very valuable in the long term. The SosyalBen Foundation will continue to listen to the voices of young people without losing our feature of being a learning organization wherever and under whatever conditions we are.
In e-Workshops held in line with this vision, volunteers continue to generate benefits for a better world with exchanging their ideas.
In the process of social isolation we are in, especially the efforts of young people to provide social benefits and the sustainability of volunteering in the digital world, to lead the implementation of e-volunteering in Turkey, which has been on the agenda of the European Parliament for two years and has international examples, we take action as the SocialBen Foundation, a non-governmental organization of the new generation and by joining forces with Sabancı University CIP unit, which has carried out important works in the field of volunteering for 20 years, we held the e-Volunteering Summit on 20 November 2020
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