Africa@home explained

Africa@home is a website that allow users to use their home computers to contribute for humanitarian causes at Africa. This project first went public on 13 July 2006.^[1] It partners with Swiss Tropical Institute, the University of Geneva, CERN, and ICVolunteers (ICV). It is sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN).^[2]

Africa@home together with ICVolunteers, recruited volunteers across Africa to help with the project.^[3] The Malaria Control Project (MCP) was the first and the only volunteer computing project run by Africa@home.^[2] MCP ran for 10 years and became inactive since 21 June 2016.^[4]

See also

• Malaria Control Project
• List of volunteer computing projects
• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
• Volunteer computing
• Grid computing
• Geneva International Academic Network

Notes and References

1. Web site: Volunteer computing for African humanitarian causes. Africa@home. 3 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20160428145908/http://africa-at-home.web.cern.ch/africa-at-home/. 28 April 2016.
2. Web site: Who is Africa@home?. Africa@home. 3 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030171807/https://africa-at-home.web.cern.ch/africa-at-home/presentation.htm. 30 October 2014.
3. News: V. Krebs. Training of trainers on Volunteer Computing for Africa. 3 July 2017. ICVolunteers. 24 July 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20150514132555/http://www.icvolunteers.org/index.php?what=nws&id=222. 14 May 2015.
4. Web site: Maire. Status and plans as of June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160722220548/http://www.malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=1472. dead. 22 July 2016. malariacontrol.net. 10 June 2017. 21 June 2016.