Dootrips: a CO2-neutral global transportation system based on collaboration
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10.1016/j.proeng.2014.07.048
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Abstract
With more than 30 million articles in 287 languages, Wikipedia allows volunteers from around the world make contributions towards the creation of the most complete encyclopedia ever written by humanity. By collecting 10-second contributions from over 100 million web users a day, project reCAPTCHA has digitized more than 13 million articles of The New York Times, dating from 1851 to the present. 12.5 million active users learn new languages every day using the collaborative platform Duolingo, and while doing so, they are helping to translate online content from one language to another in a costless manner. These are just some of the examples reflecting how we can harness the power of human collaboration to solve some of the most challenging problems in a sustainable manner. In this paper, we present the Dootrip system, a collaborative social-network based technology implementing a CO2-neutral global transportation system. By focusing on technology, information sharing, excess capacity and global collaboration, the Dootrip system effectively enables the transport of goods without incurring any economic cost and without altering the planet's ecological footprint. We have implemented the Dootrip system as part of the Labdoo humanitarian social network to help deliver unused laptops sanitized and loaded with education software to schools in need around the globe. Having planted the first seed in Southern California, in three years the Labdoo/Dootrip system has organically grown and spread across more than 90 countries, providing laptops to a growing number of more than 270 schools and servicing more than 65,000 children.
CitacióRosello, A.; Garcia, J.; Ros, J. Dootrips: a CO2-neutral global transportation system based on collaboration. "Procedia engineering", 2014, vol. 78, p. 124-133.
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