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One speaker brought up the oft-cited Ushahidi crisis mapping initiative during Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010 to crowdsource information for “disaster-affected populations.” They were...
There is one additional online activity that should be mentioned. It is not very innovative itself, but it is essential for enabling innovation: crowdfunding, webmoney and tools for donating micro...
What’s exciting is how ICT, or “thinking cities,” can help us understand the urban world in ways that were impossible to know before. With this knowledge, the idea is to detect inefficiencies in...
Here are five tips when considering crowdfunding for the next project: 1. Clearly establish or understand the process through financing can be secured. 2. Be specific about the project and...
This report draws on an original empirical investigation of Map Kibera, a community information platform that takes advantage of open ICTs, and similar initiatives to provide key insights on the...
This study is intended to provide a counterpoint to the populist hyperbole that characterises IT work as a ‘sunrise occupation’ in mainstream literature. The technically challenging aspects of the...
The management of collaborative environments is a very challenging task. The difficulties increase in large, heterogeneous and multidisciplinary groups of people accessing the service...
The following lessons were learned from this case study: 1) Crowdsourcing can be highly powerful and effective for ICTenabled climate change applications. 2) Mobile plus Internet plus...
Starting on 10 February, and for a month thereafter, education and mobile learning stakeholders are invited to share their ideas on how mobile communication can contribute to meeting youth and...
How can mobile communication help improve gender parity and equality in education? A Nokia smartphone will go to the owner of the best idea submitted to the fifth phase of the Education for All...
More than 800 ideas have already been generated in the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, which aims to find ways of using mobile communication to help achieve literacy, develop universal primary...
From 10 April to 31 May, education and mobile learning stakeholders are invited to submit their mobile communication ideas for helping achieve EFA goal n°1 that calls for expanding and improving...
Starbytes™ (www.starbytes.it) is a crowdsourcing platform available to Italian companies looking for a new way of developing projects, digital products and services. Starbytes now has a...
Speaking before an audience of 200 global leaders and gender, technology and education experts, O’Riordan said her motto in life is ‘no limbs, no limits’ and said technology was key to help her...
Announcing the winner, the head judge Kabagema said Crowd Funding Project has the potential to promote the growth of other start-ups as its acts as a channel through which people can contribute...
Tools such as crowdsourcing and mobile phone applications such as those devoted to health present the Pacific Islands region with immense opportunities. Tentative steps have already been made in...
In preparation for the February 28 ICT Solutions Day, the World Bank ICT team is piloting a crowdsourcing initiative to develop innovative ICT-enabled solutions for client countries. Thanks to...
In this article, Paul Currion looks at the potential for crowdsourcing data during large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Paul is an aid worker who has been working on the use of ICTs in large-scale...
The Ushahidi platform is a very simple application but it became such a huge success of the Kenyan bloggers themselves who provided pertinent information to the founders themselves. Indeed,...
Composed of 48 pages, this paper, Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting Hype from Reality, also discussed a topic on crowdsourcing. This page was written by Eric Gujer, entitled...
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