Can micro-volunteering help in Africa?

Micro-volunteering has been defined as convenient, bite-sized, crowd-sourced, and network-managed. Micro-volunteers donate their time and energy for organisations which they may not have previously encountered (crowd-sourced), at a time which is convenient to the micro-volunteer, and in small pieces of time (bite-sized). This paper looks at a micro-volunteering project where participants can volunteer for five to ten minutes at a time using a smart phone and assist pupils with their mathematics homework.