One way to contribute

Have you ever wondered that you want to contribute to a world issue but had no idea how you can do that? Well, here's one way you can contribute...without actually doing the actual work yourself. All you need is a computer. It's called World Community Grid.

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The idea of this program is to solve problems that would require thousands of years for one computer to solve by using thousands of computers connected with internet connection. This is completely a voluntary program and you don't gain anything from this (aside from the feeling that you are contributing to a cause), but you don't really lose anything either because the program works in the background using the disk space and memory that you don't use anyway.

In the end it does slow down your system a bit, and maybe you'll end paying a few cents for the extra electricity needed to run the system in order perform those calculations. But I think it's worth the trouble.

One of their project is called "Nutritious Rice for the World" and I say this project is definitely worth contributing!!