I always claim that the biggest revolution brought by the net is ethnological and sociological. This year findings from Netexploratrend are supporting my beliefs.
After the 2009's "Web to the World"trend (how the web allows us to interact in the physical world), 2010 is the year of the "Spray World" (how the web cloud is surrounding us and melts the frontier between physical and virtual worlds).
Netexploratrend identifies 4 sub trends: the emergence of the GreenNet (how the Green Business is taking over Green Tree Huggers), the Catchmarketing (online tracking), Insight Command (evolution of the interaction user/technology) and Microjobs (micro tasks outsourced online).
In this latest category, I want to highlight the humanitarian microjob project "Give Work", created by Leila Janah, President of Samasource. Basically you perform a small task online that will be used to train refugees in diverse camps in Africa. Once they reach a 75% accuracy rate, they become workers and get paid. In the mean time, your work finances their training.
There is even an iPhone app for that! So between these Bejeweled 2 games, put your iPhone to useful work!
Sources:
lafemmedigitale.fr/
netexplorateur.org/
samasource.com
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