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Citizens On Watch offers a free tool to alert or notify citizens about suspicious activity based only on GPS location. Citizens out for a walk don't have to know who lives in a given house to...
Natural disasters and wars bring people together in unanticipated ways, as they use the tools and technologies easily at hand to help. From crisis response to situational awareness, free or low...
Citizen journalists are providing a valuable service to their communities. They are relentlessly searching for the truth by preserving liberty and democracy. They are doing all of this without...
Ethan Zuckerman, head of Civic Media Center at MIT Media Lab, gives a lecture at Pawa254 in Nairobi, Kenya: Exploring The New Relationship Between Journalists and 'The People Formerly Known As...
Seeking: - Feedback | taylorluker1@gmail.com - Collaborators | People wanting to work on the project with me to help make it a reality. (programmers, etc.) - Money | Kickstarter pending...
Citizens with a sense of civic duty can download the app to sift through the photographs if you have an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry smartphone - no neighbourhood watch patrols for the Windows...
Citizen journalism has been shaking up the news industry for years already, and CNN's iReport section is one of many efforts by traditional news outlets to include citizen voices. Earlier this month, however, CNN launched a new effort, dubbed “Open Stories”, that aims to take that concept a step further by crowdsourcing coverage of important topics through a combination of citizen and professional journalists.
When the unforgettable James T. Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise, recorded his last Captain’s Log, on StarDate 9525.1 it included an optimistic forecast:
“This ship, and her history, will shortly become the care of another crew. To them, and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man, ... where no one has gone before."
Today, Tuesday 13 September, in Australia, 42 years after the final episode of the original Star Trek, a community computing science initiative was kicked-off to help discover the hidden Universe; it was officially launched in Curtin University. TheSkyNet project is a citizen science initiative that will be powered by members of the public contributing their spare computing power to the processing of radio astronomy data.
On 13 Jul 2011, the group Adbusters released this call: Occupy Wall Street! In Solidarity, and as a response to this call, a planning group was formed [occupywallst.org], and an info sharing...
We press on with our look at the crowdfunding campaigns that raised the most money for their creators in 2012. So far, we’ve featured the Pebble smart watch and the Ouya video game console, and we continue with Star Citizen.
It is human nature to want to denounce injustices and expose wrongdoing - these intrinsic desires can motivate a crowd to play "watchdog"....and so we have seen the rise of crowdsourcing platforms that provide some degree of monitoring, with the goal of reporting irregularities. Sound like a police state? Well, it depends on what is studied and what is revealed!
As public portals for information sharing improve, fraud and waste scandals that were traditionally broken by whistleblowers inside government will increasingly be sussed out of aggregated data...
Our politicians are great. Lobbyists and special interest groups are great. But we need to be GREATER. Many aspects of society were better in the past. But we can be GREATER, again. Members of...
Senator Kate Lundy will discuss the Open Government agenda, and how open data, open standards and open technologies underpin the capacity for government to be transparent, participatory and engaged...
An interview with Gabe Klein, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation who launched a contest “Apps for Metro Chicago” at the SocialDevCamp conference in Chicago. Developers were...
Fan-funding is also part of Occupy's advertising. With Loudsauce, a site for crowd-financing TV commercials and other campaigns, movements can underwrite the purchase of expensive airtime....
To law enforcement agencies, CRIMEDAR is a provider of custom crime map solutions. To the general public, Crimedar is a free, easy, interactive, online neighborhood watch. It allows citizens...
In a crowdsourced interview session, Obama answers questions about SOPA and UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer.
A video on President Barack Obama answers questions about SOPA and UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer.
Postulate One is one part citizen journalism, one part a study in the global definition of what it means to be an entrepreneur, and one part … a 10,000 mile bicycle trip across Eurasia....
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