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Ookaboo – Free Pictures of Everything!
Ookaboo uses semantic technology to amass a growing collection of public domain and creative commons images, free for commercial and non-commercial use. Photographs are indexed by precise terms, such...
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Describe Me – Add Alt-Text to Photos to Assist the Blind
Describe Me is a project of the Museum Victoria in Australia who require volunteers to write alternative text (alt-text) for images to make their Collections Online more useful for people who are blind...
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Operation Photo Rescue – Restoring Damaged Photos
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) exists to restore photos damaged by various natural disasters or house fires, so that the precious memories they hold can be brought back to life again. People from all...
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ZenWave – Raise Money for Charities With Your Photos
ZenWave is a not-for-profit initiative based in Australia where the sale of donated photos from the general public is passed onto a selected nonprofit of the contributor’s choice. The few charities...
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Donate A Photo – Charity Fundraising & Awareness
U.S. based Johnson & Johnson have created a project called Donate A Photo, where every photo that is donated, raises funds and awareness about particular causes. Many causes are featured on the...
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Zines of the Zone – Mobile Library For Rare Photobooks
ZINES OF THE ZONE is a French-based mobile library project dedicated to self published photobooks and photozines. Their goal is to create a public collection of rare, self published photography works....
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Crea8ing Careers – Story Videos
UK based Crea8ing Careers aim is to deliver career and employability guidance to young vulnerable groups in Britain and support the development of the necessary skills to secure future employment....
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Your Paintings Tagger – Tagging Artwork
The Public Catalogue Foundation has digitised the UK’s national collection of oil paintings, where one of their aims is to make art in public collection more accessible. You can help their mission by...
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ARTigo – Describe Paintings with Keywords
Art history, studies mainly original artworks, but often their reproductions, too. Today, these reproductions exist in substantial electronic repositories certainly amounting to several millions items....
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Burada Engellendim – Snapping Disabled Access Issues
Implemented by the Spinal Cord Paralytics Association of Turkey, Burada Engellendim (which means ‘I am blocked’) is a web platform set up to encourage people to take a role in removing the...
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Voluntarios de Occidente – Creating Short Videos
Columbian based Voluntarios de Occidente runs projects in both Columbia and Ecuador, where their mission is to improve the living conditions, educational standards, and cultural level of rural and...
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YouDescribe – Describing Videos for the Blind
YouDescribe is a free accessibility tool for adding audio description to YouTube videos, and is a project of The Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center. . People with...
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Micro Mappers – Digital Disaster Response
Members are asked to watch video feeds or look at pictures to identify damage caused by a natural disaster from anywhere in the world. MicroMappers is only activated when natural disaster strikes, so...
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Operation Photo Rescue – Restoring Damaged Photos
Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) exists to restore photos damaged by various natural disasters or house fires, so that the precious memories they hold can be brought back to life again. People from all...
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Crowd4U – Crowdsourcing Microvolunteers
Japan based Crowd4U describe themselves as a micro-volunteering and crowdsourcing platform. It is an all academic open and generic platform for “Crowdsourcing for Good” and provides a task pool for...
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Citizen Sort – Classifying Animal & Plant Species
Citizen Sort is a point and click adventure game, designed and built by Syracuse University students, where you can participate in scientific research while foraging through fearful forests, vicious...
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Science Gossip – Classifying Illustrations
Science Gossip is the simple way to directly help historians to categorize old scientific documents to discover if there were illustrations in them. This project doesn’t demand much time, however it...
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Chimp and See – Scan Videos for Chimpanzee Activity
The aim of Chimp and See is to monitor chimps in order to help researchers learn about the environment as well as evolution. It’s an easy task, where you initially study 9 screenshots laid out in a...
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