How to use your computer to save the world?

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Published on 2010-05-05T17:22:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 18:58 UTC
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Sometimes I miss the "help other people" factor within computer-related fields. However, there are little things that we all can do to make this a better place—beyond trying to eradicate annoying stuff such as Visual Basic.

You could join a cloud computing network such as World Community Grid to fight cancer, write a charityware application such as Vim, improve office IT infrastructure to support telecommuting and reduce CO₂ emissions, use an ebook reader to save paper, ...

What else can we do to help others? Which projects can have the biggest impact?

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