The Third Sector, the NGO sector, the volunteerism are politically and socially strategic sectors. As a nation, the Third Sector would represent the fifth economic power in the world. Based on principles of solidarity, voluntarism and participatory democracy, its tall in a country is one of the scales indicating their democratic maturity.

On the other hand, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are the heart of the new technological paradigm, and according to Castells, are "the essential element to promote productivity in the production process."

The "digital divide" or differential access to ICT - access, production and consumption of hardware, software, content, capacities - is another weak flank in development strategies in those countries. The integration of these technologies is a key matter, particularly in a context of growing inequalities.

For that reason, the ICT's represent an opportunity for NGOs; which can and have to use this opportunity to promote volunteerism, social action and cooperation to development.

According to the sociologist Saskia Sassen, one of the five highest authorities in the world on the Information Society, "ICT's have the potential to accelerate participation by the "powerless people" and generate transformations." Therefore their use becomes more important in the organizations with fewer resources, such as NGO's, and in the most disadvantaged social groups, which usually are the beneficiaries of programmes, projects and activities managed by non-profit organisations.

There is an urgent need that the Third Sector climb to the train called the Information and Knowledge Society as soon as possible, not only because of the qualitative increase that will mean its activity, but also because the longer it will wait, the more difficult it will be to implement these new methods and make the proper performance of social approach to its mission and projects.

In short, a sector of the size, experience, knowledge and professionalism, as is the Third Sector, which has a huge impact on human and social development in the world, in general, and in the information society, in particular, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, can not afford itself to stay out of the revolutionary process that involves working for the massive incorporation of ICT's in society; the benefits it will bring being vital, and the consequences of not entering into the knowledge society on an equal footing being very serious.