Tech Volunteer Opportunities
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by GD
Many people want to do something that will benefit others. The open-source software movement has been one avenue for the technologically inclined.
Alejandro MartÃnez-Cabrera wrote a recent article about three organizations that give people another way to help: the Extraordinaries, Philoptima, and Ushahidi.
“Platforms that use crowdsourcing principles are experiments in using technology to effectively engage people and channel their interests into a cause,” he writes.
Source
Alejandro MartÃnez-Cabrera, Networks Direct Volunteers to Micro Gigs, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 28, 2010; printed in hard copy as “Tapping into Brainpower.”
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