Online "Volunteering"?

Question

I have heard of FreeRice.com & play it to give free rice to the poor. What are other websites where you can do something online to help others?

Answer 1

The UN has an online volunteer organization. Anyone can apply to volunteer online from their own home. http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/  I don't know if that's really what you mean, but it is online!

Answer 2

Thanks for the referral to the UN's OV site. It's excellent -- but unlike the FreeRice site, you don't just click to help (and I'm skeptical that that really helps). On the UN's site, you actually have to DO something in order to make a difference.

http://www.onlinevolunteering.org

Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world. Volunteering for Project Gutenberg is something you can do from your home.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

LibriVox is a nonprofit effort that mobilizes volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain. LibriVox then publishes the audio files on the Internet, via its web site. The goal is to record al books in the public domain! Volunteering for LibriVox is something you can do from your home. You can listen to free audiobooks recorded by volunteers, or volunteer to record yourself reading a chapter of a book in the public domain to share with everyone, by going to the LibriVox web site:

http://librivox.org/

There are also distributed computing sites, where your computer does the "volunteering" for you. Here's an excellent list of such causes:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/14-...