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The Kindness Rocks Project is a viral trend where people, commonly children, paint pebbles or cobbles and leave them for others to find and collect. Photos of the painted rocks and hints of where to find them are commonly shared on Facebook groups . [ 1 ]
The group has been recognized by the WHO-TDR as one of the leaders in social innovation for health. Individual crowdsourcing projects have created videos promoting HIV testing, [96] videos promoting condom use, [97] images promoting sexual health, [98] and related topics. SETILive is an online project of Zooniverse.
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) was founded in 1995 at Purdue University by Professors Edward Coyle and Leah Jamieson as a solution to two problems. [1] First, many engineering graduates lacked real world skills needed for project management, such as budgeting and scheduling.
Community Funded is a crowdfunding platform based in Fort Collins, Colorado allowing project creators to create one or more fundraising projects on the site with the goal of helping people and organizations with projects find the ideas, funding, and resources they need to be successful.
The original Portal, built in Washington DC, USA by artist Amar C. Bakshi in 2014. Portals is a global public art initiative that connects people around the globe through real-time video audiovisual technology housed inside a gold-painted, converted shipping container or other structure.
In 2006, they started developing ideas for creating community-driven art projects in Brazil that could "transform the living environment and instill pride in the people." [17] They started working with the local youth on the first painting, Boy with Kite, in 2007. Working with the youth there involved training and community immersion.
A community project is a term applied to any community-based project. This covers a wide variety of different areas within a community or a group of networking entities. Projects can cover almost anything, including the most obvious section of concern to any community, the welfare element. Welfare community projects would for example be, a ...
This is a comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects, which are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game consoles, [1] and Android devices.