ABSTRACT

The challenges facing voluntary sport organisations in today’s ‘fast-food’ world are many and are discussed in detail in the following chapter. However, not least of these is managing the information and communication demands of sport teams, clubs and associations as they respond to the demands placed on them by the external and internal environment of the organisation. The concept of the ‘e-Federation’ (Delicado, 2002) has come about in recognition of the heavy administrative workload undertaken by national federations and the advent of an array of modern electronic tools that help to deal with this workload (see Table 13.1). In this chapter, a review of information and communication technologies (ICT) as they apply or might apply to managing voluntary sport organisations is presented.