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document Crowd Creativity, CrowdfundingAwesome in Toronto has taken many forms since the January launch. In April it was a cardboard fort night. In May it was a map that plots the city’s kiss history. In October it was a bicycle that...
document Distributed Knowledge
Described as "a new breed of justice for the new generation," FantasyCourt has both sides of a party lay out their case for their personal community to play the role of judge and jury...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsTrashswag, a Toronto-based website, has garnered attention for the way it gathers crowdsourced information to alert residents to discarded items left on city sidewalks. But it isn’t attracting...
article CrowdfundingWhile Amponsah lay unconscious and covered in bandages, his friends got to work. They set up a campaign on Indiegogo, a website that uses crowdfunding to raise money. They knew he would need...
document Open InnovationAnother entry, ZooShare, was being championed by Daniel Bida, president of ReGenerate Biogas Inc., a dedicated developer of community-owned biogas plants. ZooShare Biogas Co-operative Inc. is a...
document Distributed Knowledge
In the meantime, crowdsourcing is the method Google is relying on to keep its maps relevant. Some smaller trails, like those in mountain bike-friendly Crothers' Woods, have already been...
article Distributed KnowledgeAdopt-A-Pond is one of the many programmes run by Toronto Zoo. These are essentially scientific crowdsourcing programmes designed to help with collecting data paid scientists and employees...
CrowdfundingWith Gawker's campaign over on Indiegogo right now to raise funds to purchase a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, rewards-based crowdfunding is currently having its Skokie vs. the neo-Nazis moment.
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document Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeDuring this symposium, the panel of 10 international thinkers will be discussing and debating about questions like, Is crowdsourcing helping or hindering creativity? How are crowdsourcing and open...
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeIt's a good thing that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield crowdsources the ideas for the poster which he wanted as a way of commemorating his upcoming mission to International Space Station. He...
site Open Innovation / Idea Generation
Idea Couture is an award-winning global strategic innovation, experience design, and customer insights firm with offices in San Francisco, Toronto and Shanghai. They partner with organizations to...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe National Museum of Natural History's blog ran a story on the team's novel use of social networking to crowdsource their data. Then the Smithsonian Institution's blog, Smithsonian...
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge
Toronto-based R&B singer Abel Tesfaye's (a.k.a. The Weeknd)video stands as a nice “full circle” kind of representation of The Weeknd’s ascension: Internet star to real-life sensation, to...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
The ClimateSpark Social Venture Challenge is looking for ten great ideas that can help Toronto city and our climate. The three-part challenge is open to any social venture that includes at...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsA new tool called Google Map Maker, which launched in Canada on Monday, allows users to add roads, rivers, trails and points of interest — such as stores and libraries — or make edits to get rid of...
document Distributed KnowledgeIdeavibes has also used partners such as Sandbox PM and other firms in Calgary and Toronto to act as resellers, building channels that will accelerate its growth. "We see (business)...
document CrowdfundingThe new online crowd-funding service will start with six campaigns for docs chosen by Hot Docs “industry experts,” the festival says. The six campaigns will run consecutively. The first six will...
document ToolsIn March, the Tunezy team pitched its concept and won first place out of over 80 teams at NBTC in Toronto, and earlier this month Tunzey announced it had sold a 20% stake in the company to...
document Distributed KnowledgeProperly used, crowd-sourcing allows the municipality to receive informed choice. This could be carried out online with all responses displayed along with the identity of the respondent. The...