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Archability is a crowdsourced platform that allows individuals in needof architectural services to post projects to the site and have architectsand designers submit proposals for the job. From...
Based on patterns of month-long crowdsourcing petitions on the site, Causes-Community Manager Alejandro De La Cruz predicts the card will be the first ever to top 2 million signatures....
If you're in the storm's way and have a secure place to stay, consider taking part in a citizen-science effort to collect rainwater samples from the storm. Run by waterisotopes.org,...
The Android and iPhone phone app Livestream lets anyone post live video, and they’re starting to do so on a special Sandy site. CNET also has a nice list of other useful apps–especially useful if a...
This form of citizen journalism helps to give the world a better understanding of the impact that this devastating storm has had on communities. People won’t need to rely on just footage from...
Whether looking for a skillful barber or a top mobile app, crowdsourcing has become a staple of information gathering in the digital age. So, it’s no surprise that Long Island communities, greatly...
GoFundMe CEO Brad Damphousse says, “ We built GoFundMe to be the place where family, friends and communities come together and support one another when they need it most. Americans know that real...
Yoink, a virtual bulletin board which just launched two weeks ago, has been completely repurposed to provide aid to New Yorkers in Sandy’s wake. It’s now a peer-to-peer disaster relief site, where...
A disaster response professional working in the affected areas for FEMA replied (via CrisisMappers) to Schuyler’s crowdsourcing efforts to confirm that: “Government agencies are working on...
Hurricane Sandy was the largest single event in the history of Instagram to be photographed and captured. This according to CEO Kevin Systrom, who told the crowd at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference...
Fundly CEO Dave Boyce said Kimberley Bellinger’s work is at the root of his company’s goals. “It’s about people taking things into their own hands,” Boyce said. “Sandy has demonstrated that...
Close to 30 million mobile app users turn to Waze to tap its crowd-sourced data for car directions. The Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) and the White House saw an opportunity to use...
Journalists should not be nice; the truth is not served by politeness. Citizen journalists need to get off Twitter for five minutes, make phone calls, and start investigating. As a citizen...
In partnership with MIT’s Center for Civic Media, Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo launched StoryLine, as they're trying to create a crowdsourced documentary on the after effect of Sandy....
Currently, 107 Sandy disaster relief crowdfunding campaigns are taking donations. The Help Long Beach project, for instance, was started by teachers in Long Beach, New York to feed and clothe the...
Rich Serino, Deputy Administrator for FEMA, said the efforts by the volunteers from the Civil Air Patrol and those leveraging crowdsourcing to verify damage assessments and categorize the damage...
Established organizations, groups and individuals have been doing what they can from their own homes or neighborhoods, using technology and online services such as Indiegogo, Amazon and Facebook to...
HurricaneHackers was an outlet for netizenship. For example, there were people developing the #SandyAid Followup project who tried to track followup to aid requests using the #SandyAid hashtag. It...
One start-up, Recovers.org, is already investing in the future of crowdsourced disaster-recovery. The platform operates as an enclosed, single-purpose social network and gives communities the...
Last Thanksgiving, Twitter users sent 2.5 million “thankful” tweets. In the days leading up to this year’s holiday, those thankful tweets have become synonymous with post-Sandy related updates....
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