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Eric Whitacre was not contented with a choir that was 185-persons strong. He wanted his virtual crowdsourced choir to be bigger still. So he went 2.0 and put a second call out that resulted in an...
A new study by the World Bank Group’s infoDev program shows that virtual online currencies and digital work now provide real income opportunities to poor and unskilled workers in developing...
The presentation tackled the following: 1. Introducing the Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy What do we mean by “Virtual Economy”? What are some of the industries in the VE?...
Technology has made virtual teams an everyday reality for entrepreneurs. Your challenge is to reduce the “virtual distance” between team members to zero, using personal communication, appropriate...
Pfizer isn't the only outfit traveling the virtual trial road. In January New York-based drug developer Transparency Life Sciences unveiled its plans to take the virtual strategy even...
The promise of the future is bright, and the possibilities crowdsourcing presents when combined with virtual goods is even brighter. Crowdsourcing provides a way for a variety of businesses to...
Arise Virtual Solutions Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of virtual business process outsourcing and crowdsourcing solutions, today announced it has partnered with Veteran Central on...
Technical skills continue to be hot commodities, and for 2012, here's what Elance predicts the 10 most promising online careers will be: Software Developer Visual Designer...
What’s being demonstrated by these consistently funded projects is that gamers want something different from their consoles, and judging by the developer support that both the Ouya and Oculus have,...
Some employers are inevitably concerned that a virtual assistant will charge for hours when they are actually watching television. Silicon Valley’s oDesk, for example, provides some assurances....
Devicescape calls its network “virtual” because it doesn’t actually own or manage any of the hotspots it connects to. Instead it relies on its freely available smartphone and PC software to...
"We are pleased to welcome such an innovative firm as CrowdIt, with its unique offerings, to assist entrepreneurs and itself, an incubated client of The eFactory Business Incubator, as an...
Tongal also advises that employers should provide the opportunity for remote workers to be physically present whenever they feel the urge. "This has worked wonders for us, both with the...
The virtual choir is represented by 12 countries, namely Austria, Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and United States of America....
A growing number of crowdsourcing and “microwork” platforms employ unskilled workers in digital tasks ranging from pattern recognition to data input. This “virtual economy” of digital goods and...
Virtual Kenya is an online interactive platform with related materials for those with no access to the Internet. It is designed to provide improved access to high quality spatial data and...
Crowdsourcing solutions to social problems require a different take on what the crowd is. In place of the amorphous global crowd, local crowds can actually be very focused and purposeful. In the case of neighborhoods, crowds can come together for extremely valuable social purposes.
My Virtual Neighbor is the first social network geared around neighborhoods and new research has proven that the service can reduce crime in communities that are "live" on the site by 80% as neighbors crowd together.
As the first social network service focusing on forming ties and encouraging interactions based on neighbor interest, it helps people who live around each other to get to know each other better, to keep everyone well-informed about what’s going on in and around their neighborhood in real time, and to help them benchmark effective positive actions.
Announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, the Virtual Student Foreign Service is part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology...
“This report shows that crowdsource mapping and space technologies are natural partners,” said Dr. Michael Simpson, Executive Director of Secure World Foundation. “Our challenge going forward is...
In its belief that small donations can have a large effect, pledge4good is something like a miniaturized version of Kickstarter, only organized around feats and charities rather than a product....
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