Potentials of the Internet in the function of financing humanitarian (non-profit) organizations project in transition countries

Abstract

One of the crucial features of transition countries is the insufficiency of funds necessary to start and operate different nonprofit oriented projects. In order to realize their projects, nonprofit organizations in transition countries have to rely mostly on foreign sources, i.e. on donors from the developed countries. The Internet as one of the visually strongest means of global communication is an obvious and reasonable way to achieve transparency of nonprofit projects. A Web portal, which would present projects to potential donors in an interesting and visually attractive way, needs to be developed systematically. Given that the Web is a global information space, when creating project presentation systems, it is necessary to approach data modeling on the basis of the defined information requirements in the function of finding donors