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Green Map is a global center and an online showcase for a worldwide network of community-led Green Map projects.Their mission is to spur inclusive participation, Green Map System empowers...
Green Map is the gathering point for both the makers and users of Green Maps, and offers inspiration to everyone interested in a sustainable future. They also act as comprehensive inventories...
PhillyTreeMap is a web-based map database of trees in the greater 13-county 3-state Philadelphia region. The wiki-style database enables non-profits, government, volunteer organizations, and the...
Urban Edibles is a crowdsourced map that help you find wild food sources in Portland, Oregon. They provide resources for those interested in wild edible, medicinal and otherwise notable plants....
The Guardian is asking readers to add to their map of privatised public spaces in Britain. For the purposes of this project, they are not looking at enclosed shopping malls - only open spaces,...
PhillyTreeMap will help Philadelphia Parks & Recreation progress toward achieving the 30% tree canopy goal outlined in Greenworks Philadelphia by providing a tool for engaging citizens around...
There is no restriction to crowdsourcing in Brazil, according to the Secretary of the Federal Revenue of Brazil (the Brazilian equivalent to the US Internal Revenue Service). The information was released on Tuesday by Rafael Zatti, the founder and General Director of Ideias.me, a web platform that is responsible for implementing two crowdsourced projects for mobile company Vivo. The Secretary of the Federal Revenue stated that there is no legislation against crowdsourcing, giving a green light to existing and future projects.
PhillyTreeMap is a web mapping application that solicits citizen input, similar to the successful OpenStreetMap. Robert Cheetham started the project two years ago when he won a government grant...
Last week, we highlighted a TED Talk by Lucien Engelen, the man behind AED4.US, a crowdmapping effort that aims to pinpoint the locations of all automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs). We got in touch with Engelen to find out more about his ambitious project and to get an update on the recent developments.
Crowd-sourcing, of course, is an ideal way to include the public in public media, and stations who haven't yet made a foray into this arena should strongly consider doing so.
Earlier this year, Yannig Roth began to list all the creative crowdsourcing initiatives he could find, applied to Interbrand’s ranking of the 100 Best Global Brands. The result was this living post on his blog, which he's given us permission to re-post here.
Georg Neumann, a communications specialist at the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Interamerican Development Bank, recently previewed a workshop being organized by the MIF and massolution (a Crowdsourcing.org sister company) on the potential of crowdfunding in Latin America. We share it here with the author's permission.
Dallas Mavericks owner and outspoken investor Mark Cuban has been speaking out a lot lately about the value of the crowd, and now he's putting one of his investments where his mouth is and crowdsourcing his team's uniforms. That, plus the delights of Freakstarter and all the week's top crowdsourcing and crowdfunding headlines in our 24th installment of the Crowded Room.
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