Jacob Colker

The Extraordinaries team: Jacob Colker (foreground), co-founder with Ben Rigby (left), Sara Herald (background), and Boris Korsunsky (right). Their internet-based programme allows volunteers to use smartphones to give spare minutes to charitable, scientific and community organizations.

Jacob Colker (standing), co-founder of The Extraordinaries, discusses with his team ways to involve more volunteers in his project which allows people to bring benefits to others with just a few minutes’ free time.

Jacob Colker with the logo of The Extraordinaries, the internet-based programme that he co-founded to allow smartphone-users to carry out micro-tasks for community, charitable and scientific organizations.

Jacob Colker with colleagues at the headquarters of The Extraordinaries.

Jacob Colker teamed up with technology specialist Ben Rigby (right) to found The Extraordinaries, an internet-based programme that enables volunteers to use smartphones to donate spare minutes to charitable, scientific and community organizations. Rigby is chief technical officer of The Extraordinaries.

Jacob Colker, co-founder of The Extraordinaries, holds aloft his smartphone, bearing the logo of his internet-based programme thanks to which volunteers can use spare minutes to carry out micro-tasks for charity.

Images on a board in Jacob Colker’s office reflect the innovative idea behind The Extraordinaries: combining volunteerism, the internet and mobile phones in a new form of social activism where anyone with a smartphone can use spare minutes to benefit others.

Almost 40,000 volunteers have signed up with The Extraordinaries, Jacob Colker’s internet-based programme allowing smartphone-users to benefit others by carrying out micro-tasks for charitable, scientific and community organizations.

Volunteering for Jacob Colker’s internet-based programme, The Extraordinaries, is simple for smartphone-users who can get involved whenever they have minutes to spare – even during a coffee break.

Two young people take time out on their smartphones to help charitable causes by accessing The Extraordinaries, Jacob Colker’s internet-based programme promoting volunteerism.

Volunteering on the bus. Jacob Colker's internet-based system, The Extraordinaires, represents a new form of social activism designed for the mobile technology of the 21st century.

This volunteer uses a few spare moments while standing in line to carry out a micro-task delivered to her smartphone by Jacob Colker’s internet-based system, The Extraordinaries.

There is no limit to volunteering for Jacob Colker’s internet-based programme, The Extraordinaries. Smartphone-users can devote spare minutes to a charitable or scientific microtask anywhere and at any time.