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document Open Innovation
LoudSauce, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Colin Mutchler and Christie George, provides a way for individuals to make an impact by changing the messages that we see in our advertising...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationHere's how the Fire Department app can save lives:
If someone calls 911 to report a possible heart attack victim, 911 dispatchers can send an alert to anyone in the vicinity with CPR...
document Distributed Knowledge
The stories behind the maps are John's motivation. "It's about context. A hundred years ago there were people running around, going to work and coming home. And you can figure out...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
Kicker Studio , a Design Consultancy made up of Designers, Researchers, Innovators and Makers.They create meaningful, lasting relationships to products by creating interfaces that feel like a...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe crowdsourcing organization is expected to complete a study within six to eight weeks further refining the types of crowdsourcing verticals around which the industry will be organized, he said....
document Crowd Creativity
The data problems that need solving are so important that those who find the solutions should be paid like professional athletes, said Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom. By turning data-mining...
document Distributed KnowledgeIn its grandest vision of itself, the 11-person company backed by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin will have tens of thousands of competitions running simultaneously. Guilds of data gurus will band...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsIf the marketplace for civic applications based upon open data develops further, it could help with a key issue that has dogged the results of city app contests: sustainability. It could also help...
article Distributed KnowledgeA historic scaw schooner that once hauled goods around San Francisco Bay is now part of an online crowdsourcing history project about the bay.
Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and...
article Distributed KnowledgeThink of this app as a high powered construction toy, the next evolution of city-building games. While it may be exactly be the “simple and casual” pastime advertised on the App Store page, it is...
site Distributed Knowledge / Local CommunityResetSanFrancisco.org is an online and offline community dedicated to identifying, debating and implementing reforms that will make San Francisco the best run city in America. Many of these reforms...
document Distributed Knowledge
The 1.0 version of the Reset San Francisco iPhone app is just one example of how Reset San Francisco founder Phil Ting is using web 2.0 tools to empower San Franciscans to get involved in local...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
At last year’s Philly Tech Week, Azavea launched PhillyTreeMap, an app that brought crowdsourced tree mapping to Philadelphia, as Technically Philly reported. With successful implementations in...
document Distributed Knowledge
When the New York City Department of Transportation created a website to solicit crowd-sourced suggestions for locating stations of the upcoming Bike Share program, it received over 70,000 votes...
document Tools
The Walkonomics web-app uses ‘Open Data’ and ‘Crowdsourcing’ to rate the pedestrian-friendliness of over 14,000 streets in San Francisco in the following categories:
Road safety;...
document Cloud Labor
The site is called BurgerTo.Me, and it does exactly what it sounds like it does. Sign in with TaskRabbit, make your order and tell the service where to deliver your grub: On-demand In-N-Out,...
article CrowdfundingOver 2,000 backers have pledged to contribute around $75,000 on Kickstarter. That leaves the game $50,000 short of its $125,000 goal with a week to go. That’s a pretty good position, since a flurry...
document Distributed KnowledgeSan Francisco residents and business owners are working on a common goal, which is to provide their excessive homegrown foods to the less fortunate through the San Francisco Food Bank. This...