DocumentCode
667378
Title
Can micro-volunteering help in Africa?
Author
Butgereit, Laurie ; Botra, Reinhardt A.
Author_Institution
Meraka Inst., Tshwane, South Africa
fYear
2013
fDate
29-31 May 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Micro-volunteering has been defined as convenient, bite-sized, crowd-sourced, and network-managed. Micro-volunteers donate their time and energy for organisations which they may not have previously encountered (crowd-sourced), at a time which is convenient to the micro-volunteer, and in small pieces of time (bite-sized). This paper looks at a micro-volunteering project where participants can volunteer for five to ten minutes at a time using a smart phone and assist pupils with their mathematics homework.
Keywords
computer aided instruction; mathematics; smart phones; Africa; crowd-sourcing; mathematics homework; microvolunteering project; network-management; pupil assistance; smart phone; Cellular phones; Educational institutions; Ethics; Mathematics; Protocols; Smart phones; dr math; micro-volunteering; mobile; smart phone;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (IST-Africa), 2013
Conference_Location
Nairobi
Print_ISBN
978-1-905824-38-0
Type
conf
Filename
6701718
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