The Impact of the Digital Alliance for NGOs via Digital Awareness Kiosks (Ethics Kiosks) Project: Towards Achieving Sustainable Development in Egyptian Society

The digital revolution has transformed the way we live, work, and play. Digital technologies have brought immense benefits to individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. Digitalization, which is the adoption of digital technologies, has had a significant impact on the operations and activities of non-profit organizations. This paper aims to examine the effects of digitalization on non-profit organizations in terms of their communication, fundraising, and service delivery. The study draws on a review of the existing literature and analysis of case studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of these impacts.

The findings indicate that digitizing non-profit organizations has had several positive impacts including significant improvements in communication, reaching wider audiences and effective engagement with stakeholders, providing new revenue generation channels, and connecting with donors. Digitalization has also facilitated the delivery of services and reached more people in need. The paper also discussed the positive contributions that digitization can make to sustainable development, including increased efficiency, reduced resource use, new business models, increased access to education and healthcare, and improved environmental management. However, the adoption of digital technologies has also created new challenges for non-profit organizations, including the need to invest in technology infrastructure and manage data security, and privacy issues. e-waste, the digital divide, and cybersecurity challenges.

This paper provides an overview of the impact of digitalization on sustainable development and concludes with some recommendations on how to maximize the positive impacts of digitalization while minimizing the negative impacts.

The ethics kiosk project (the digital alliance for civil society) won first place in the national initiative in the Suez Canal region for the category of non-profit projects, as it is the first ERP system that combines operational and development departments and works on the governance of donations in receiving and disbursing them. It is a technical version of an ethics kiosk project which has been discussed before in a different scientific paper (Elgammal, 2023). It is the first in the Arab world to take care of all developmental and charitable aspects within the framework of the governance of administrative and accounting operations. It was presented to the Prime Minister and the Ministers (the Minister of Planning, the Minister of Social Solidarity, and many others), also the Governors (the Governors of Ismailia, Suez, and the Governor of Port said). Everyone honored and praised this project during the national initiative, it won first place in the category of non-profit projects.