This research started during my stay at the The EPFL Executive Master in e-Governance. This Executive Master program is briefly introduced elsewhere in this site.
With an engineering background, I propose, in a personal global journey, to analyse the situation of the governance of Civil Society Organisations in the light of social sciences. To check my assumptions, I examine, in this context, the case of one of the major international NGO, the World Conservation Union (IUCN). As an example of means to reinforce its status in the present e-World, I proposed to the IUCN to take benefit of new forms of Internet based horizontal organisations to enhance the access and the visibility of its Red List of Threatened Species. Upon the failure of this proposition, I then examined the different web sites of IUCN, in the light of social communication theories in order to compare its situation at the time of the study (spring 2007) with my vision of an ideal situation into which this NGO would be in a better position to answer the challenges exposed in the introduction. The thesis occasionally refers to external documents for those who ask for more details. These additional documents are linked hereunder.
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ψ THE CIVIL SOCIETY
ψ THE NGO
ψ ACCOUNTABILITY OF NGO
ψ A COMMUNICATION SOCIETY
ψ GROUP PROCESSES
ψ OF THE GOOD USAGE OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY