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According to Invisible Children, the film and a related campaign “aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international...
Jason Russell has an idea, and that idea is to arrest Joseph Kony. Jason has made a movie to explain how he is putting his idea in motion: crowdsourcing military intervention. Well, he doesn’t...
Al Jazeera’s online platform for Uganda Speaks features an interactive map showing the different locations where views are filtering in from, as well as highlights the crowd-sourced, time-stamped...
One local Ugandan featured in the Kony 2012 video said: “If people in those countries care about us, they will not wear t-shirts of Joseph Kony for any reason." Sentiments like these...
Jason Russell has an idea, and that idea is to arrest Joseph Kony. Jason has made a movie to explain how he is putting his idea in motion: crowdsourcing military intervention. Well, he doesn’t...
KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
Kickstriker, a site only a few days old, bills itself as a way for average citizens “who care” to support the resolution of intractable wars. “Following the massive success of Invisible Children’s...
"The purpose of our website, Kickstriker.com (henceforth ‘Kickstriker’), is to critique a number of institutions, including Invisible Children, through the use of political satire,...
But Mr. Jack McDonald, a PhD student at King's College London, misses the mark when he worries that "crowd-sourcing" (using social media and viral marketing to reshape public...
Another big week in Crowdsourcing--the House of Representatives passed a new package of bills including Rep. Patrick McHenry's original crowdfunding bill, while Crowdsourcing.org held our first live chat with Brightidea, where we spent over an hour in a fascinating discussion about Open Innovation.
Here's a few of the other important and interesting crowdsourcing developments from the week just past:
A new crowdfunding platform called Kickstriker launched today — but unlike Kickstarter, the dominant crowdfunding portal for creative ventures, Kickstriker aims to fund paramilitary projects.
While “Kony 2012″ succeeded at raising awareness and connecting potential activists with an issue, it ultimately failed due to suspicions regarding the role that Invisible Children played as a...
Crowdsourced translation platform Amara -- formerly known as Universal Subtitles -- just got a big vote of confidence from the Mozilla and Knight Foundations, in the form of $1 million in funding.
Professor Casanovas said crowdsourcing technology was revolutionising not just aid work but politics too, with the Constitution of Iceland being debated via crowdsourcing of the country’s 320,000...
Amara is a technology that lets people bridge linguistic barriers in the world of video. In other words, it is a great example of what crowdsourcing can achieve. According to its parent...
In practical terms, Amara lets volunteers easily collaborate to create subtitles for all sorts of videos. While leveraging their language skills, its free, open-source API provides them with the...
From their latest book, Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet, co-authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams present groundbreaking innovations from every corner of the globe:...
Amara has created a way for anyone to caption or translate videos on YouTube. Wanna help us test it out?
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