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Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the Climate CoLab seeks to harness the collective intelligence of people around the world to address climate change. The Climate CoLab is a forum...
Broadband networks and connected computers, use energy, too. How much, in comparison to cutting commuting and plane trips, is hard to tell, but many researchers think that the Internet will end up...
“Wicked problems are those for which no single computational formulation of the problem is sufficient, for which different stakeholders do not even agree on what the problem really is, and for which there are no right or wrong answers, only answers that are better or worse from different points of view,” explains Thomas Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and founder of the Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI).
The intractability of the wicked problem is what first inspired Malone to dream up the Climate CoLab. Global climate change is a perfect example of the wicked problem. There is a deadlock of perspectives on how to address climate change, how severe it is, and whether it is even real. People with different political and economic viewpoints will answer these questions differently. Malone imagined a tool that would be able to represent these mutually contentious perspectives but guide them towards solving problems and generating strategies for addressing climate change.
For the companies that make up mainstream corporate America, environmental issues may still largely be seen as a cost center rather than a competitive edge. Companies can spread the principles of...
Professor Thomas Malone noted that organizational design theory in the 20th century is generally focused on traditional, hierarchical corporations. Furthermore , he said that as digital tools give...
Stop Climate Chaos is UK’s largest group of people dedicated to action on climate change and limiting its impact on the world’s poorest communities. Their combined supporter base of more than 11...
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said the 2012 document will be an important foundation to the long term strategy and actions needed to tackle climate change beyond 2020. Several ideas have...
On the American scene, the Jobs Act is stalled as small group of senators look for additional investor protection. But Ellenoff points out that Title 3 of the Act is pretty protective. It limits...
Six Degrees is a campaign collective of Friends of the Earth Brisbane (FoE), which is committed to addressing the root causes of climate change and phasing out the coal industry in Queensland. This...
Tom Erickson, designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York, believes in crowdsourcing as a force capable to bring to citizens the ability to change the landscape of their cities and effectively create a more intelligent and livable environment. In his paper Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions, Mr. Erickson explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what he called “geocentric crowdsourcing.”
In his opinion, rather than people as passive subjects of increasingly ‘smart’ systems developed by tech companies, the vision is that smarter cities can offer a variety of ways for humans to act as first class participants, contributing their abilities to sense, analyze and act. Mr. Erickson focuses his research on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively: originally focused on online systems, the scope of his work has expanded to include real world environments ranging from rooms to cities.
Responding to some questions from Crowdsourcing.org, Mr. Erickson explained the concept of Geocentric Crowdsourcing and his practical application to the cities.
After launching a new storytelling format “/answers” together with renowned documentary filmers and journalists, Siemens, a leader in electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors, has decided to take a step forward and call filmmakers around world to tell histories of how technology is changing cities for the better.
To gather these stories, the German company is launching a video contest on Zooppa, the world’s leading source of user-generated advertising. Titled “Changing Your City for the Better,” the contest awards filmmakers who submit the most captivating short films that demonstrate how technological innovations improve urban life and create a better world.
“After launching our new storytelling format ‘/answers’ on siemens.com together with renowned documentary filmers and journalists in late February, crowdsourcing content for this magazine is the natural next step for us”, said Tobias Dennehy, Editor in Chief Corporate Communications at Siemens.
“After all: the web is no longer about broadcasting; it’s about listening and ‘joint-casting’. That’s exactly what we’re aiming for in our cooperation with zooppa: listen to the community, get new, surprising impulses for our digital corporate flagship magazine /answers around urban life in the 21st century,” he added.
There is so much evidence for global warming coming from so many sources that it can't be denied. One more of those uses data that has been crowd-sourced by a citizen science organization...
Mapping and complementing satellite maps with user-generated maps is a powerful method to make the invisible visible. Crowdsourcing and community-based mapping such as Seeclickfix, Open Street Map...
The Open Data project, which is part of the NASA Open Government Initiative, is intended to improve access to NASA data. This open data catalog is a continually growing listing of publicly...
It is too bad that the Department of Energy charged with developing our new energy future can't even use today's most modern technology innovation strategies. It is even odder still that...
This is a summary of South by Southwest’s talk “Getting a Crowd to Work for You: For Pay or Play?” featuring CrowdFlower founder Lukas Biewald and Kaggle founder Anthony Goldsbloom. They discussed how crowdsource work is transforming traditional business and research, provided background on their companies, and offered insights on the motivations of people involved with crowdsourcing.
Alberta's Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation recently unveiled a Grand Challenge on NineSights looking to find innovative uses for carbon dioxide.
Lawyer Robert Shirkey, founder of Our Horizon, said he is working to expand and complete of a database of every municipal leader across the globe and is using crowdsourcing to achieve his goal....
We take a look at Seesaw, a crowdsourced decision making app created by the founders of CoTweet.
We think crowdsourcing is a smart way to get lots of judgments made about sentiment expressed in the social media. But, what about quality control? How can we maintain an acceptable level of quality control while relying on the crowd to make thousands and thousands of judgments?
We were drawn to CrowdFlower because of their approach for ensuring quality control using what they call “gold”. In a typical “assignment” set up on the CrowdFlower platform, a worker needs to make judgments for a group, or assignment, of “units” (a unit in our case would be an individual Twitter tweet)....
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
