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The crowdsourcing platform also benefits from inheriting the large database of users who have downloaded previous versions of SkyMotion. "We're addressing issues that have plagued...
The US Geological Survey (USGS), which runs USNPN , released the details in an announcement today: "The millionth observation was done by Lucille Tower, a citizen-scientist in...
Though there have been positive outcomes to crowdfunding, The Observer raises the question of whether or not it is is a solution to a lack of bank loans. Ami Kassar, CEO and founder of...
The internet provides the opportunity for that spirit of observation and engagement to be shared and focused. It also makes the argument for the power of collaboration over competition, for...
All forms of collaborative innovation demand that practitioners become ethnographers and anthropologists so they can develop insights into the true nature of the problem to be solved or the...
NeuroSky plans to invest the $50,000 in crowdfunding money it raises to get software developers to connect its headset with mobile devices, to create cheap, convenient systems that can help...
ZaoZao.com, a brand new crowd-funding site created for designers in Asia. ZaoZao is the brainchild of Vicky Wu and Xiang Ling Cai. The friends came up with the idea by tossing out possibilities...
Today, Graffitimundo gives Buenos Aires street art tours to some 2,000 people per year and recently raised $36,000 on the crowdsource site Kickstarter to finish production on “White Walls Say...
Today, Graffitimundo gives Buenos Aires street art tours to some 2,000 people per year and recently raised $36,000 on the crowdsource site Kickstarter to finish production on “White Walls Say...
By collecting diaries, observational accounts, and responses to in depth questionnaires MO encouraged the British people to become observers and reporters of their own lives, an example of...
In the world crowdfunding arena, Pozible doesn’t even come close to the U.S. behemoth Kickstarter which reported a record year in 2012 (over two million people pledged a total of USD$319 million,...
Crowdsourcing continues to gain momentum in the private sector. From Microsoft’s Imagine CupLego’s Mindstorms and from GE’s $200m Ecoimagination Challenge to Sony’s Open Planet Ideas, we’ve seen countless examples of cost-efficient, time saving, and high yield crowdsourcing implementations. While crowdsourcing has gained traction in the private sector as a great vehicle for innovation and customer engagement, it is interesting to observe how the public sector is embracing crowdsourcing as an economically effective vehicle for engaging their constituents.
Anthony De Rosa announced today that Neighborhoodr has expanded into 25 new cities beyond New York, including Austin, Nashville, Seattle and Los Angeles, and he's made public the real-time...
Articles on crowdsourcing seem to spread one message: every firm should use the ‘power of the mass’ by tapping into a global pool of online voluntary resources. I do not deny that crowdsourcing is a beneficial concept to a number of firms, but there is also a different story to tell. I have observed that little or no attention has been paid to the drawbacks of crowdsourcing. These disadvantages result in unexpected costs that have the potential to wipe out some or all of the benefits of crowdsourcing.
In the first part of this article I describe which types of crowdsourcing currently exist and the benefits of crowdsourcing. In the second part (published tomorrow), I explore some of the drawbacks of crowdsourcing.
Old Weather is a collaboration between a diverse collection of people and institutions. They aim to recover worldwide weather observations to help improve climate model predictions.
Fair Observer will be interactive and adopt multimedia in a way that will be riveting, relevant and revolutionary. Their aim is to provide you analysis that is lucid, rigorous and, above all,...
It has always been possible for the public to file observations on patent applications before they are granted in the UK. The Peer To Patent project builds on this by using modern technology to...
AOK is a social game for good that rewards players for submitting Acts and Observations of Kindness (AOKs) occurring in the “real world”. Since this is a "social game for good" so while...
The book of rescued self-published material will be called The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 and released in December. To curate, Mr. Gordon-Levitt has put up a call for submissions on the...
In this presentation, Agnieszka Lukaszczyk (Space Policy Consultant, Secure World Foundation) has enumerated both technological and international institutional progress but still many challenges...
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