Africa@home

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