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According to the UN Crowdsourcing is the perfect analogue for showing the connections between each person on the planet. That is why, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is challenging...
According to campaign Director, Alvaro Serrano, the UN opted to crowdsource its campaign’s public image because “The 7 Billion Actions Campaign will illustrate the inter-connected world that 7...
“The 7 Billion Actions Campaign will illustrate the inter-connected world that 7billion people share with each other, the issues and challenges they face, and the actions they are taking to improve...
This 3 minute video nicely explains the 7 Billion milestone! But this video doesn't only introduce National Geographic and 7billion.org's initiative. It's an eye-opener of what the...
Last December, the UN launched a social media campaign to encourage people to get involved in the global human rights movement, inspired by the role played by tools such as Facebook and Twitter...
Through the process of crowdsourcing on CrowdOutAIDS, young people proposed six key recommendations for the UNAIDS Secretariat, including: 1.) Strengthen young people’s skills for effective...
Everything on the Noun Project is in the public domain, which allows for all of the pictographs/symbols/icons to be used and remixed for any purpose. This collection of pictographs is well...
Minecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game. Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the...
Launcht was invited to speak to the United Nations Development Programme staff by the Knowledge, Innovation and Capacity Group of the Bureau for Development Policy. This morning, CEO Freeman...
Focusing on the green economy, which will be a key theme at the UN’s Rio+20 Conference in June 2012, participants in the 2011 Climate CoLab Contest were asked to submit proposals with either a...
If a similar process could work for Global Pulse, it could help leaders gather the hard evidence they need to intervene with agile, targeted policy responses to protect these families from...
The National Association For Moms In Business has partnered with peerbackers.com – a crowdfunding site dedicated to helping entrepreneurs fund their projects – to provide the grant’s crowdfunding...
Born from a unique gathering of leaders from media, corporations, NGOs, universities, and grassroots organizations, 7 Billion Actions is a global movement open to every organization and individual...
According to Kyle Ruddick, founder and director of One Day on Earth, the film is a celebration of diversity that is a part of humanity's individual nature. Futhermore, he says that the film...
When the UrtheCast cameras are launched, image data will be offered by means of a consumer-centric website. The platform will be open-source, allowing users to create applications for sale on the...
In their phenomenal project, Valley of the Kahns, National Geographic crowdsourced the analysis of high resolution satellite imagery in the search for clues to an 800 year old mystery, the...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently launched its Innovate for Children platform, underscoring the agency’s commitment to innovation for social change. The platform aims to improve UNICEF’s work by encouraging “dialogue and co-development to support the successful delivery of end-user driven and innovative services, products and systems.”
MY World, the United Nations global survey for a better world (www.myworld2015.org) is a groundbreaking initiative inviting citizens to virtually take their seat at the UN and participate in the...
NARA is contributing images from its vast collections to a crowdsourced, nationwide Google map of the United States superimposed with photographs dating from the 1840s to the present. The online...
A new report says that the potential of online mapping to transform humanitarian services will not be realized without better coordination and communication between digital volunteers and veteran...
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