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There are many unsolved missing persons cases, additional volunteer efforts could be hugely beneficial. Getting more volunteers is difficult for existing organizations as some of their volunteering force is dedicated to managing other volunteers. These organizations also can’t make use of small contributions from people who aren’t willing or capable of spending large amounts of time or traveling substantial distances. I believe that a mobile application and website could allow for users to make small scale contributions to these cases that would result in a large cumulative civic value. I will examine numerous projects and where they have succeeded to better understand some of the existing solutions to gathering large scale involvement. The project will then be detailed based off conclusions from these examples. Research methods best fit for this project will be outlined followed by ethical issues surrounding the project. Finally, I will look at the limitations and advantages of the view I bring to this problem.