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The pages are rich with useful examples and lessons about how networks are unlocking assets in communities to support open government, care for the elderly, help disaster victims and advance...
It was the increasing popularity of ScienceforCitizens.net—more than 10,000 visitors per month—that convinced Cavalier there was a need for a more robust way to connect scientists with citizens,...
Whether this army of letter-spotters can sort out the stories of Oxyrhynchus remains to be seen. But the Ancient Lives project already underlines the curious, cosmic relatedness of human lives...
EEA, connects the institute monitoring data with space station observations and past reporting and then tell people why this matters.It is not only official data that holds sway when it comes...
Accordingly, a wooden pedestrian bridge dubbed the Luchtsingel will span 350 meters and require 17,000 planks. Citizens are invited to chip in and help fund the effort with donations of anywhere...
These five programs were developed by the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, along with the NYCEDC.
"We believe citizens should be able to collaborate with government officials to make their neighborhoods and communities better places to live and work. These innovations and new...
Investigative journalism is open to being crowdsourced for both funding – through sites such as Spot.us – and for collecting data and reporting. The crowd is also blogging, along with expert...
In order to keep raising awareness of its work, Zooniverse declared this month Citizen Science September. As part of the initiative, the organization is launching new projects and improving existing ones. So far, Zooniverse has revamped its original Galaxy Zoo project and introduced Seafloor Explorer, which asks users locate underwater creatures. The organization declares “even more areas of research [will be] brought into the Zooniverse fold" in its soon-to-be-released projects.
Game developer Chris Roberts’ fans shelled out $6.2 million to help finance the upcoming Star Citizen title, making it the most successfully crowdfunded video game yet. Roberts and his team ran a dual campaign, with $2.13 million coming from Kickstarter, and $4.09 from their own crowdfunding initiative.
Scientific research in the 21st century has seen great strides in collaborative practices, with “citizen science” allowing professional scientists and amateurs to collaborate on large-scale...
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.
ReVoDa allows voters to report as independent citizen observers from their respective Polling Units across Nigeria, having registered to map their mobile number, name and polling unit number to...
While the rioting and looting that convulsed parts of London last weekend spread to other parts of the UK on Monday, The Guardian newspaper enlisted help from the crowd to catalogue and portray to the destruction caused by uncontrolled groups of youths.
“What have you told us so far about the events over the weekend?” asked the newspaper to its readers.
What started as a gathering of around 200 protesters demanding answers over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the police on Thursday August 4th, culminated in a full-scale riot that spread across north-London suburbs and subsequently to other parts of the country, including the UK’s second largest city, Manchester.
“On Sunday, we began asking Guardian readers what they'd seen in Tottenham on Saturday night, and why they thought the vigil held for Mark Duggan escalated into rioting and looting”, wrote James Ball, a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations team. “This work had been used to complement and feed into work carried out by our reporters on the ground”.
OpenFile reports local news stories suggested by you, the people who live and work in the community. It is called community-powered news: you suggest a story, they assign a reporter. By connecting...
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.
Along with the book, readers can connect with other wine-lovers at Wineopolis.com. Using the power of print to build an online social community, Wineopolis just launched its website in May 2010...
Rob Rouwenhorst, director of the Marketing Institute and lecturer in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, said the key to a successful crowd-sourcing campaign is to provide a...
The TED Prize 2012, The City 2.0, a kind of global Wikipedia connecting citizens, political leaders, urban experts, companies, and organizations, to reshape cities around the world. The idea was...
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