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38 (mostly) humanitarian projects anyone can work on, all in the public domain
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Try out new ideas
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Build up your portfolio in a new area
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Participate on your own or with a team
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Work on something good
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Totally free to use
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Take a project and run with it
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Run a Kickstarter/Indegogo if you want
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Fork a project and monetize it for yourself or your own team
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Impress a prospective client
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Or just have fun!
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GlobalChange Digital Money
Digital money benefitting nonprofits
web3, backend, front end, UI, UX, product manager, product roadmap, marketing, legal, community organizer
Tree Trillion
New forests can improve humanity's long-term health. Let's offer to pay more for products coming from new forests countering deforestation, and to visit new forests as eco-tourists.
Ecology, resource planning, economics
Universal semi-public spaces
Joycott to prefer coffee shops, hotels, and other establishments that advertise free access to public spaces for unhoused people.
graphic design, community organizing
Mosquito Feeders
Design and develop field-based mosquito feeders that draw bites away from people, preventing disease transmission
CAD/CAM, prototyping, 3D-printing, supply chain, global fieldwork/backyard scientists
Profit Collective
Join a "virtual kibbutz": share salary and support with a distributed group, and collect bonuses for group-benefical activity.
Product manager, community organizer, UI, UX, legal, potential blockchain
EPNOT
Joycotters will show up for a newly designed, amazing (but less expensive) version of Disney World! Can you contribute ideas and next steps?
architecture, land use, design, engineering
Care Bank
We are here to engage in elder care now, when we can, and build up a karmic/digital store of care to one day receive in return
UI/UX, community building
Hospital Helper
Design apps and systems to help patients control and manage confusing hospital stays
UI/UX, print, form factor, human factors, medical
Votester
Votester politicians track and implement constituents' desires constantly
UI, UX, ledger/blockchain, political, legal, community organizer, product manager
Collection Connection
Our lives are cluttered ... We're all ready for an app that can catalogue all our stuff, and facilitate efficient sharing/buying between people
UI/UX, systematizing, business, logistics
A Little Judgy
Uber for arbitration! Become a judge; get rated; get disputes resolved
UI/UX, community, legal
Penny Stocks
Crowdsource financial prediction market; crowd beats analysts. Anyone can afford to participate!
UX/UI, blockchain probably, legal, financial
Forever Home
Design ideal living spaces and systems
Architecture, product design, layout, ergonomics, usability
Basic Science Priorities
Track humanity's honest questions of curiosity to focus basic scientists' research efforts
UI/UX, education, web2, app development, community building
Decentralized Science
Design and release the mechanism to publish, criticize, propose, and fund ... without journal publishers' and university institutional baggage
UI, UX, academic, product/project manager, potential ledger, community organizer
Universal Usability
Make usability methods more usable for more people everywhere
UI/UX, translation, experimentation
Gamified Brainstorming
Game structures to brainstorm problems worth solving and commercialize potential solutions with credit back to gamers
Game developer, UI/UX, project manager, legal, finance
Ideal Consulting
Design corporate structures that solve the handoff problem and let professionals work more flexibly and better
UX/UI, business, legal, consulting
The Gentler Casino
A casino that returns your lost principal (years later, anyway)
UX/UI, finance, regulatory, gaming, architecture
Science Faction
We'd like to see a forum organizing forgotten ideas from past science fiction, to review for newfound contemporary or future relevance
UI/UX, forum, classification
Hospital of the Future
Design a piece of what hospitals should look like
Healthcare, architecture, UI/UX, human factors, usability
Worldlygigs
Conspicuously humanitarian peer-to-peer global small supply delivery, bringing food or medicine wherever it is needed
Product design, optimization, usability, energy, sustainability
Idea Broker
Trusted 3rd party accepts and reviews ideas, and brings proposals to discuss to potential beneficiaries
UI/UX, legal, product planning, business development
Homeful
Homeless people help flip houses - find living spaces, learn a trade, share in profits
Community organizing, front end, legal, education, financial
Camp Hotel
Forum for running short-term camp-like hotel stays for kids - extended social awesome "babysitting"!
UI/UX, organization, marketing, full stack, logistics
Civilization Restart Button
Design apps and hardware that re-teach naive humans the basics of civilization. Just in case ...
UI/UX, design, usability, language, anthropology
Rational Towing
Design interface to let space owners get cars removed efficiently, without cars needing to be towed at outrageous expense
UI/UX, community, city planning
Anesthesia Awareness Detector
Design and develop devices to record intentional attempts to move or think during surgery or apparent coma
UI/UX, product development, medical device, electrical engineering, risk analysis, regulatory
Vent Diagram
Forum for complaining about everything and everything, so we can get to the root cause of it all
UI/UX, human factors, root cause analysis, web, geolocation, systematization
Global Hyperloop Assessment
Engineer and criticize engineering plans for a worldwide hyperloop including energy and water-delivery mechanisms
Design, risk assessment, engineering, project planning
SpaceTime Capsule
Design plans for a time capsule sent to space to return years later - what does it look like, and what should go inside?
Planning, engineering, project management, risk management, content management
Values
Organize charities by rated effectiveness and content area to generate donation "mutual funds" reflecting each donor's values.
UI/UX, finance, nonprofit, blockchain
Stadiumbrellas
Design drones that self-organize a large umbrella over a concert or stadium. A "retractable roof" for anywhere. Give fans the experience they came for!
Product design, software, electrical engineering
Universal higher degree
College-level content is freely available, but how to prove you've mastered it? Let's validate a test that proves scholastic competence.
Psychometrics
Ethicons
An independent universal data display for packaged goods conveying ethical (and allergy) status of products. Like a kosher symbol, but for ... everything.
Consumer products, packaging, data, perception
Battle of the Utopias
Optimizing the selfish ladder: Compare and contrast forward-looking social utopias. Propose them, immerse in them, test them, challenge them.
VR, gaming, AI
