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document Distributed Knowledge
“The Washington Post’s Crowd Sourced pages offer an opportunity for readers to weigh in on key questions shaped by leading Post journalists who closely follow the issues. Through this interactive...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe Pivotal Leaders program, which started in 2010 to recognize the area’s most innovative cleantech executives, is a crowdsourced nomination process that then allows nominees to choose the winners...
document Distributed KnowledgePost reporters will use Intersect – a beta website that lets users share stories through time and location for all to see – to report stories and lead the conversation with readers.
document Distributed Knowledge
This year the YouthForce has crowdsourced a ‘Declaration for Change’, where young people from across the world (over 90 different countries) participated in an online platform to select and...
document Crowdfunding
Washington should enact its own mini-crowdfunding exemption,but it should not be modeled on the federal act. Instead,the Washington Securities Division or the Legislature should craft an...
article ToolsOpenPlans, the people behind OpenTripPlanner and BikePlanner.org, are releasing a new crowdsourced mapping tool called Shareabouts. For the launch, they are asking people to suggest mapping...
document Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing website - CureLauncher.com is supporting a new metastatic breast cancer treatment from esteemed cancer researcher Dr. Lee Roy Morgan. Each person who contributes $25 or more to...
document Crowdfunding
“This initiative gives everyone a chance to help make a difference in the life of D.C.’s economy,” said Matt Flannery, Kiva’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “By lending as little as $25...
article ToolsThe British Tories Budget Project is another example of engaging the public in assessing a proposed budget (inspired by the earlier MPs expense scandal) However, the technology it used was not as...
document Distributed KnowledgeIn this article, the following crowdsourcing efforts are mentioned:
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez invited the public to submit ideas on how to cut waste and reduce the size of government....
video Crowd Creativity, Tools
The work (3D models with Web images ) is being done at the University of Washington, where researchers have crowd-sourced images from the Web and created 3D re-construction of St. Peter's...
document Crowd Creativity
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington's recently held competition is a great example of an organization raising awareness for its fundraising product with a community-based contest that...
document CrowdfundingU.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) released a message for Massachusetts about his legislative efforts, both ongoing and already successful, to combat Washington’s tax and regulatory policies that...
article Distributed Knowledge“We call what we’re trying to do curated crowdsourcing,” UW's Jeff Rice said.
Organizers will officially launch the site, which has been online in a test version since May, with a panel...
article Distributed Knowledge
No astronomy experience is needed; volunteers can start after taking a brief tutorial at www.andromedaproject.org. Crowdsourcing is needed because of the huge volume of data. There may be as many...
article Distributed KnowledgeA new petition, created just last week on Christmas Day, calls for the Roman Catholic Church to be classified as a hate group, “as defined by both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the...
CrowdfundingLeaders from the crowdfunding industry in the U.S. are in Washington D.C. today to apply some gentle pressure on regulators who are now several weeks behind on issuing rules under which the nascent securities market will operate.
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document Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgePresident Obama believes the best ideas usually come from outside of Washington. That’s why in 2009 he launched the SAVE Award (Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency), seeking ideas from...
document Distributed KnowledgeWikipedia set up the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy, asking students from the nation's top public policy programs to help by turning course research into articles for the...
Crowd Creativity
Washington — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, after visiting the UK today for talks with British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will head tomorrow Europe to confer with finance and banking officials in France and Germany options for the design of the new EuroDollar currency which, following the approval of the European Parliament in Brussels last month will go into circulation from 1st January 2012.

It is understood that Jean-Claude Trichet, the head of the European Central Bank and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are in favor an international crowdsourcing competition to design the new EuroDollar symbol after the success of the crowdsourcing of the Indian Rupee in a competition announced on March 5, 2009 by the Indian government to create a symbol for the Rupee.
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