Crowdcrafting

A web-based service that invites volunteers to contribute to research projects developed by citizens or professionals that need help to solve challenges that can’t be done by machines alone, but require human intelligence.

Free Open Source Web

Foldit

Foldit is an experimental video game about protein folding, developed as a collaboration between the University of Washington's departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Biochemistry (many of the same people who created...

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

Distributed Proofreaders

Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books.

Free Open Source Web

Quantum Moves

Quantum Moves, part of the scienceathome.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

Phylo

Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for harnessing the computing power of mankind to solve a common problem; Multiple Sequence...

Free Web

MapSwipe

Mark streets and houses in satellite images to help create maps for humanitarian organizations.

Free Open Source Android iPhone

OSM Tasking Manager

A mapping tool designed and built for the Humanitarian OSM Team collaborative mapping.

Free Open Source Web OpenStreetMap