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In this article, the following crowdsourcing efforts are mentioned: New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez invited the public to submit ideas on how to cut waste and reduce the size of government....
Wikipartido founder Alfonso Tamés argues that the Wikipartido — which encourages sporadic online participation — is a “good option” for folks who cannot dedicate 100 percent of their time to...
The Wikipartido, is a new online political party that seeks to change the way politics is done in Mexico, and take on the country's political dinosaurs, by using some of the crowdsourcing...
Mexico should set up a crime-reporting system allowing that kind of anonymous packet reporting. They are talking about dual crowdsourcing: Citizens crowdsource incident awareness up, and responders...
Since 2010, Alta Ventures has organized the first Mexico Venture Capital Conference (mvcc.mx); the E|100 (e100.mx), a crowd-sourcing initiative to identify and recognize top high-potential...
According to Freelancer.com’s regional director for Latin America, Sebastián Siseles, Mexico represents an interesting opportunity for Freelancer: “The Mexican market is key for us, not only...
An automatic system classifies the report according to the type of problem. Anyone with a Twitter account can contribute with information and access the site to find out about major incidents...
" Ret.io is used much more to receive reports of police abuse and corruption, to the point that some police have spoken negatively about the service, Zavala said. However, in places like...
Mr. Monroy-Hernández and others noted how members of the movement had used social media and online efforts to effectively crowdsource complaints about corruption and irregularities at the polls on...
Crowdfunder, a business crowdfunding platform and social media network for entrepreneurs and investors, recently expanded into Mexico with the launch of Crowdfunder.mx. We spoke with the new platform's CEO, Pepe Villatoro, to find out more about the site and, more generally, about the crowdfunding landscape in Mexico.
Recently, the crowd's gotten access to better tools allowing it to fight against low level corruption, police harassment, petty crime, and more. We highlight one such initiative in Mexico called Retio.
The first Challenge deals with tile drains--these are porous pipes that lay beneath many farm fields and are used to keep the land well-drained. Unfortunately, they also provide an efficient...
The Canadian crowd engagement platform Ideavibes, has announced this weekend the launch of its Latin America operation. Ideavibes has jointed with Expansion Bridge Mexico, a company specialized in hiring talent in Mexico, to support its entrance into the region. The first result of this agreement can be see in its new website for Spanish speakers, whose url is a Spanish translation for ideas vibe: ideas que vibran.
According to the company, Expansion Bridge will focus on capacity building in the area of engagement and open innovation for governments and corporations throughout Mexico and Latin America. “We have seen an increasing demand in Latin America from both companies and governments, looking for an engagement platform that focuses on innovation and engagement and is tightly integrated with popular social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook”, said Paul Dombowsky, Founder and CEO of Ideavibes. “Ideavibes is well positioned for growth in Latin America through this strong partner that understands the market and how best to capitalize on this growth.”
The new "wikilane" route is marked by striking, three-meter high green triangles, with a white bicycle stencil in the center and the word "prioridad" (Spanish for...
Fondeadora is the first mexican crowdfunding platform for creative, artistic, innovative projects that helps talented Mexican creator to get funds to make their initiatives come true.
Several new start-ups like Bandtastic, Fondeadora, NuFlick and Torneo de Ideas are working in creating a community of supporters for their projects. However, the viability of the crowdfunding...
Bandtastic, a concert crowdfunding platform, co-organized #Festival132 which brought together seven Mexican rock bands with the intention of promoting the values behind the #YoSoy132 movement....
Crowd Interactive is an American web design and development company that happens to work in Colima, Mexico. Crowd Interactive is a Ruby and Rails consultancy firm powered by a team of...
Cemex structures their “innovation lesson” into 5 steps for all their employees: 1.The Challenge; 2. Brainstorm; 3. Rating; 4. Priorization of the ideas; and 5. Implementation and Execution. The...
That’s why the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and the National Network for Urban Cycling (BiciRed) launched a campaign called ’5% for bicycles and pedestrians’, which asks...
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