Volunteer tourism

Ecotourism, conservation biology, and volunteer tourism: A mutually beneficial triumvirate

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism with funding potential is volunteer tourism, where conservation scientists and recruiting agencies develop research projects and volunteers provide funding and labor. We examine the costs and benefits of a three...

Volunteer computing

The explosive growth of interest in platform-independent programming languages for the WorldWide Web , such as Sun Microsystems' Java, is opening exciting new possibilites in parallel computing. This thesis will present and investigate the idea of volunteer computing, which will allow people to volunteer their computers' processing power towards solving a large parallel problem by simply visiti...

Volunteer Monitoring

Using Volunteer-Employed Photography to Inform Tourism Planning Decisions: A Case Study of St David’s Peninsula, Wales

Tourism planning is widely considered to be a highly political process, particularly when tourism is only one of a number of possible land uses and there are numerous stakeholders, with a diversity of interests, all trying to influence the outcome. The winners are typically those holding power, while the losers are often the destination community, who lack sufficient power to influence planning...

Running Head: VOLUNTEER COMPUTING GAMES Volunteer Computing Games: Merging Online Casual Gaming with Volunteer Computing

We describe volunteer computing games, a new paradigm for computing which merges volunteer computing and online casual games. In volunteer computing, the main goal is to harness the computational power of many users’ computers to solve a large computational problem. Unfortunately, participants in volunteer computing come from a very limited demographic—primarily middle-aged male computer expert...