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What happens when you pair a connected citizenry with social fundraising? ACTion Alexandria's online civic engagement initiative raised $104,156 in donations and matching grants for 47 participating nonprofits. The effort, held May 5-7 encouraged Alexandria citizens to donate using a variety of Razoo’s social fundraising tools from Facebook and Twitter outreach to emails and website widgets.
ACTion Alexandria aims to: Create a vibrant online platform that inspires offline action, where challenges are posted, solutions are debated, successes and failures are archived, data is both...
English metalcore band Asking Alexandria used the platform during SXSW during which time they amassed 90,000 fans, helping them land a gig on Jimmy Kimmel Live! More and more, services are...
In this empirical study, the researchers used a dataset from Atizo, containing over 25’000 submitted ideas and over 83’000 ratings to evaluate the validity of their model. Research findings showed...
Today, Capital Bikeshare launched a crowdsourcing map, where they've asked for input on where the system's new stations should be placed. According to Capital Bikeshare, the suggestions...
"Transportation departments in the District, Arlington, Alexandria and Montgomery County have all committed to reviewing this map and taking your input into account when planning new...
That's relevant since Whisper Systems had made TextSecure and RedPhone, previously available only in the United States, available to Egyptian users after mass protests against the regime of...
Many activists in Egypt donated food and medical supplies to support the Libyan revolution in early 2011. As a result, volunteers set up and coordinated humanitarian convoys from major Egyptian cities to Tripoli. But these convoys faced two major problems. First, volunteers needed to know where the convoys were in order to communicate this to Libyan revolutionists so they could wait for the fleet at the border and escort them to Tripoli. Second, because these volunteers were headed into a war zone, their friends and family wanted to keep track of them to make sure they were safe. The solution? IntaFeen.com.
Yomken is a hybrid crowdfunding and open innovation platform that launched only last month in Cairo. The platform is the creation of 24-year-old Tamer Taha, who was able to raise seed funding from the World Bank’s Youth Innovation Fund to start the site.
Many Egyptian entrepreneurs have gone mobile to help people cope with traffic jams across Cairo and Alexandria. “Autobeesy Feen” is one such app that gathers crowdsourced information in real time...
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