Hi. We're looking for some great non-profity crowdsourcing apps that we can offer as a part of The Extraordinary iPhone application.
We've come across a few great examples and are wondering if the non-profit blogging community knows of any more. So far we've got:
* Nasa's Clickworkers program [which seems to have deceased??]
* Luis von Ahn's collection of Gwap games.
* the Open Mind project.
* Mind Pixel (deceased)
* CYC
* Free Rice [I don't consider Free Rice part of this category, but it's close]
The best of the bunch is the Re-Captcha app - it seems like it'd be easy to wrap it into our iPhone application and to offer it to people on-the-go, in their spare time. It's a fun activity that also does some good.
I'd love to learn of more applications that fit into this category, which I define as:
* Contributes towards a social good
* The human action directly results in that social good (which is why Free Rice doesn't fit the mold. It results in donations by foundations to non-profit food programs, but the action taken to make this happen (correctly answering a vocabulary quiz), is entirely incidental).
* Is easily replicable
This field seems like it's primed to explode - but lacks compelling apps (so far). We're hoping that by bringing this type of app to the mobile phone via The Extraordinaries - making it accessible to people in their free time - that we can spur individuals and organizations to start thinking about what kinds of social good tasks can be performed asynchronously by thousands of distributed people, via their mobile phones.
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