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"It is important to involve young people in policy development in order for our views, expectations and aspirations to be fully represented," said Jennifer Ehidiamen, a blogger and...
On Tuesday, a U.S. Senate Subcommittee will hold a hearing on a bill from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders that would use an Open Innovation prize model to push forward the development of more effective and affordable drugs to treat HIV/AIDS.
Watch the video of a hearing on a groundbreaking bill to introduce a publicly-funded open innovation program into the field of HIV / AIDS drug development.
Put simply, young people may and should contribute to solving today’s challenges in the AIDS response, but this is only possible if we are providing them with the opportunities and the power to do...
To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks. Cracking the enzyme "provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral...
A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies can use a .hiv domain in...
The campaign, CrowdOutAIDS, stems from the idea that young people will have the best ideas about how to stop the spread of the virus, which infects 3,000 people between 15-24 daily. “It is...
Through CrowdOutAIDS, under-30 activists around the world can participate in casual “awareness raising” by spreading news of the project to their social networks. Others can engage more seriously...
There was some hope in the development and global health communities that this November meeting could install a financial transactions tax (FTT, or “Robin Hood” tax), a portion of which could...
Aspiring filmmakers and full time dads Rob Lewis and Mark Skelton have made a unique pitch to the users of the online crowd-funding service KickStarter. They are asking for help to make a...
“It is important to involve young people in policy development in order for our views, expectations and aspirations to be fully represented,” said Jennifer Ehidiamen, a blogger and journalist from...
This is the first time the UN uses this kind of approach, and it is becoming increasingly popular amongst the philanthropic, socially responsible sector. Earlier this year, Lady Gaga used...
UNAIDS realizes that they also need to reach out to youth who do not have access to computers. Gabriel Adeyemo wrote for the CrowdOutAIDS blog about his experience doing outreach to young people in...
Using crowdsourcing and social media techniques the project gathered voices and views from over 5000 young people in over 79 countries, and produced the first every crowdsourced AIDS related report...
Zahra is one of 5,000 young people from all around the world who came together to help UNAIDS develop its strategy for engagement with youth. Using a crowdsourcing approach, CrowdOutAIDS produced a...
This year the YouthForce has crowdsourced a ‘Declaration for Change’, where young people from across the world (over 90 different countries) participated in an online platform to select and...
Chevron has launched a campaign on crowdsourcing platform Zooppa to get filmmakers creating videos that will help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Chevron believes that spreading information will...
CrowdOutAIDS is UNAIDS project to crowdsource a strategy on HIV and young people to reach the goals in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS by 2015. When launched, it will be the first ever...
The recommendations resulted from CrowdOutAIDS, an innovative youth-led policy project initiated by UNAIDS. Leveraging crowdsourcing technology and new media tools, the five-month project enabled...
It's shaping up to be a big week for the crowd -- there's at least two big Crowdfunding gatherings happening here in the U.S., the Senate will hear about the benefits of Open Innovation in HIV / AIDS treatment and we've got a fresh podcast with Clickworker up (and just recorded another one today).
But before we get too far ahead, let's take a moment to round up a few of the crowdsourcing headlines we might have missed over the last 7 days or so:
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