@inproceedings{c0944a6929b04f55af8cf430c95f67df,
title = "Micro-volunteering: Helping the helpers in development",
abstract = "Finding and retaining volunteers is a challenge for most of the NGOs (non-government-organizations) or nonprofit organizations worldwide. Quite often, volunteers have a desire to help but are hesitant in making time commitments due to busy lives or demanding schedules. Micro-volunteering or crowdsourced volunteering has taken off in the last few years where a task is divided into fragments and accomplished collectively by the crowd. Individuals are only required to work on small chunks of tasks during their bits of short free times during the day. This panel brings in an interesting mix of researchers from the crowdsourcing/ development space and social entrepreneurs to discuss the pros and cons of micro-volunteering for non-profits and identify the missing blocks in enabling us to replicate this concept in developing regions worldwide.",
keywords = "Crowdsourcing, ICTD, Micro-volunteering, Non government organization, Non profit organization, Volunteering",
author = "Michael Bernstein and Mike Bright and Ed Cutrell and Steven Dow and Elizabeth Gerber and Anupam Jain and Anand Kulkarni",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2441955.2441979",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450313322",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
pages = "85--88",
booktitle = "CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion",
note = "2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW 2013 ; Conference date: 23-02-2013 Through 27-02-2013",
}