Orange requests ideas for mobile volunteering app

IT | Gareth Jones | 10 Aug 2010

Orange is looking to pioneer the concept of mobile volunteering, and is inviting ideas for tasks that could be completed by mobile phone users in small chunks while out and about.

According to the mobile operator’s dedicated website, www.mobilevolunteering.co.uk, these could include giving charities opinions on requested topics, promoting wildlife issues by taking photos of things we see, mapping local community services, or assisting blind people by recording audio snippets.

Ten volunteering actions that can be completed on a mobile will then be chosen, developed and funded by Orange to create a volunteering app.

Stuart Jackson, brand communications director for Orange said: “We’re taking responsibility as a company for maximising the true potential of the mobile phone - to see how it can be used to empower consumers to do acts-of-good whilst on the move.

“In trying to crowdsource these ideas, we’ll develop this concept in collaboration with top industry experts to ensure that the end product has a very real impact on UK society.”

The deadline for responses is 23 September.

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