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The article provides a link to an essay written on civil rights and social justice issues by Leonard Witt.
Truveli offers online a fast, free (with the exception of third party fees), & convenient way get “Trial by Jury’” to resolve disputes. It offers services to resolve disputes over civil rights...
The new crowdsourcing project, which will be located at http://cddr-zambia.org/ireport, will collect information for further confirmation and inclusion in a comprehensive report on the rights...
Terms, such as co-creation, mass customization, interactive value creation, or open innovation represent the increasing success of new (predominantly Internet-based) practices and give evidence that the general public can constitute a source of enhanced innovation.
In many countries the public sector has been seeking to reform itself, anyway. Do the open innovation methods, broadly understood provide a way? In this post, Dennis Hilgers and Frank Piller look at the wider benefits of an open public service and raise some of the most important issues.
We think crowdsourcing is a smart way to get lots of judgments made about sentiment expressed in the social media. But, what about quality control? How can we maintain an acceptable level of quality control while relying on the crowd to make thousands and thousands of judgments?
We were drawn to CrowdFlower because of their approach for ensuring quality control using what they call “gold”. In a typical “assignment” set up on the CrowdFlower platform, a worker needs to make judgments for a group, or assignment, of “units” (a unit in our case would be an individual Twitter tweet)....
Truveli offers a service - dispute resolution - just like any business does. On a more long-term basis, Truveli's ambition is to become a standard making body for certain types of...
We have long been bothered by the fact that many people spend many hours on content for which they are not compensated—and which sadly never helps to further the goals of the sponsor. Instead, we would like to figure out how to repeatedly get a few creators interested in a specific video task and provide them the feedback along the way that would help them to maximize their payoff.
CrowdVoice.org is a user-powered service that tracks voices of protest from around the world by crowdsourcing information. They've redesigned their site to make it easier and user-friendly...
According to Bahraini civil rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei, she founded CrowdVoice.org because she felt that everyone in this world deserve to be a witness to human rights violation around...
Protests in Syria began on 26 January following unrest across the Middle East region.Protesters are calling for political reforms and the reinstatement of civil rights.Syrian forces targeted...
The latest version of SourceMap is a collaborative touchscreen technology which allows a group of executives in a room to map out the supply chain together, playing with spatial relations between...
The shredder challenge is one of dozens of experiments in crowdsourcing that federal agencies are performing to tap the expertise of people they wouldn’t otherwise reach. Military boardrooms and...
Yesterday we posted a piece from Candace Klein of SoMoLend and securities attorney Sean Peppard on how the crowdfunding portions of the JOBS Act will unroll over the next several months. Today we follow up with some more detail from attorney Mike Liles, Jr. of the firm Karr, Tuttle and Campbell.
A crowdsourcing initiative by the University of Iowa is looking to help people find dinner ideas from the 1600s through the 1960s by asking volunteers to transcribe hand-written recipes. The project, dubbed DIY History, was launched after the success of the university’s previous crowdsourcing initiative, which asked users to transcribe for the Civil War’s sesquicentennial.
Synergist is a crowdsourcing site and online community for social entrepreneurs who are using business to solve societal issues. Synergist was created out of the desire that individuals had to...
We have been running a lot of jobs through CrowdFlower, but only recently did I step back and add up the tweets processed. For more than 200,000 individual tweets, we have received more than 1,000,000 trusted, human judgments from the CrowdFlower workforce! I know our research team, who had to do a bunch of judgments early on as we worked out a viable strategy, are grateful that we could get help from the crowd.
I am not a writer. I am not a journalist. I am a software developer and I built LocalByUs. I may not be a writer, but writing software is a lot like writing a book: you write it, refine it, and publish it. You don’t know if anyone will buy it, read it or like it. It’s not easy.
Writing LocalByUs was challenging. At times during the last six months, I coded away like a madwoman, making quick progress on the site. At other times, I stared at the screen, blocked, stumped by impossible-to-solve issues — that, of course, seem simple in retrospect. Tough as it was, it was also fun. Working through all the problems, I have learned more in the last six months than I did in the last six years. But when I started, I did not know that building LocalByUs would be a worthwhile venture. So why build it?
I like my local newspaper. It hasn’t gone out of business… yet. Experts think the days of local newspapers are numbered. People search the web for the information they used to get from their local newspaper. Some newspapers have morphed into online local newspapers. AOL’s Patch is trying an online newspaper model at a big scale. By all reports, it is failing as well. But most of what the local newspaper reports — school sports, business news, police blotter, neighborhood association news, local politics and so on — could very well be crowdsourced.
Now Syria descends into a civil war that will utterly shake the system of power in the middle east; this could’ve been averted had the world had taken a genuine attempt to stop this mass murder....
Any substantive discussion of collaborative knowledge in the 21st century should begin with Wikipedia. A holy grail of information on everything from Plato to Play-Doh, the site is undoubtedly the largest repository of knowledge in the world. Featuring over 20 million articles written solely by volunteers, with nearly four million in English, Wikipedia is the sixth largest site on the Internet, behind only Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and the Chinese language search engine Baidu. Incredibly, it is a non-profit, operating with just 95 staff members and 679 servers; the crowd both authors and supports the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia.
The challenges of using crowdsourcing and mapping to keep track of election violations in Russia.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
