The COVID-19 pandemic created a critical need for citizen volunteers working with government to protect public health and augment overwhelmed services. Our research examines the crucial role of community their effective deployment during crisis. We analyze individual collaborative service activities based on usage data from 85,699 gathered through China’s leading digital volunteering platform, ...

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Social capital of today's civic society diminishes, which sounds as a paradox. In the paper we briefly evaluate reasons behind these trends first in order to evaluate, how could information technology, process reengineering, followed with engagement of social software help in the current crisis of civic engagement, volunteerism and social relations in general, with specific focus on non-governm...