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document Distributed Knowledge
Prizes.org, a product that Google acquired when it took over Slide, is set to be terminated over the next six months. A crowdsourcing project, this website provided a platform where users could...
Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeOne of the greatest crowdsourcing fails since the term was coined became official just a few days ago. Most people have never heard of Prizes.org, but they've probably heard of the company that half-heartedly ran the crowdsourced contest platform for less than a year before giving up on it.
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site Open Innovation / R & DAn X PRIZE is a $10 million+ award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has the potential to benefit humanity. Rather than awarding money to...
document Crowdfunding, Open Innovation
The Wolfson Economics Prize is targeted at top academic economists from around the world by Policy Exchange, the London-based think-tank. Neil O’Brien, Director of Policy Exchange, said:-
“The...
document Cloud Labor, Open Innovation
NESTA's own experience of prizes began in late 2007 when they launched the £1m Big Green Challenge - a challenge prize accessible to grass-roots community groups.Their Finalists achieved CO2...
document Distributed Knowledge
In this $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE global competition, teams will leverage technology innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence and wireless sensing – much like the medical...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovationiprizecleanoceans.org is seeking “innovative solutions that will speed the pace of cleaning up seawater surface oil resulting from spillage from ocean platforms, tankers, and other sources.” The...
document Cloud Labor
Prizes.org is a website that is becoming very popular. It’s technically a crowdsourcing contest site that is owned by Google. The way it works is pretty simple—when you sign up, you can create...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools
Notably, the field of submissions for the third spot prize was much stronger overall than previous pools. The jury welcomed this signal that the innovator community has begun to catch on to the...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
This prize comes at an exciting time for Ushahidi. They are pleased to announce that they will use this prize to help develop version 3.0 of the Ushahidi platform. Building upon the work done at...
article Crowd Creativity, Open InnovationGrand prizes are still available for each of the Education for All (EFA) Crowdsourcing sub-challenges. The grand prize winner of each sub-challenge will receive a US$3,000 grand prize as well as a...
site Open Innovation / Idea GenerationPhiloptima is an open innovation philanthropy™ that helps grant makers, funders, donors, philanthropists, and seekers to access the latest applied research and interventional best-methods as they...
document Crowdfunding, Distributed KnowledgeOne of the projects currently undertaken by the New Organ volunteers is the New Organ 100 initiative, focused on crowdsourcing the first stage of prize fundraising, raising awareness, and building...
blog Crowd Creativity
A new labor union song, just like the songs of old which inspired unions, but this time crowdsourcing a music video to project the song to a young audience, while picking people's pockets...
document Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation
Considering that all giant crowdsourcing sites have been in the business for a long time, MycroBurst has achieved so much in less time. It is a clear sign that the rankings of the crowdsourcing...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing with regards to logo design essentially involves arranging a contest among a number of developers. A small business proprietor might provide a prize (e.g. $100), and allow a large...