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Founded by Esra'a Al Shafei, CrowdVoice is a project of MideastYouth.com. MideastYouth.com is an independent grassroots digital network that leverages the power of new media to facilitate...
Crowdsourcing really helps solves problem especially in this case that transcribing is a time-consuming and costly endeavor for a small staff at a university library, thats why they’re turning to...
According to former Interior Minister and civil society activist Ziyad Baroud, crowdsourcing – or outsourcing activities to a network of people, both on and offline – as encouraged by AUB and...
Crowdsourcing has propelled civic engagement to a level that is transforming societies and democratic processes throughout the world. In Brazil, an opportunity for change and reform is being offered through Cidade Democrática (Democratic City), a collaborative action platform that enables citizens, organisations and governmental institutions to report problems and propose solutions related to matters of concern in Brazilian cities.
Speaking at a broad conference on discussion of Vladimir Putin’s pre-election article “Democracy and Quality of the State”, the president-elect said that Russia needed the most modern model of...
CrisisCommons is a global network of volunteers who use creative problem solving and open technologies to help people and communities in times and places of crisis.
Greenwish is a Dutch crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform for sustainable ideas or initiatives. They encourage people to implement their sustainable ideas and at the same time promote the...
Some of the online discussions which have influenced the legislation are as follows: 1. Schools must get permission from the parents of under 18’s to take their fingerprints 2. Allow...
Patrick Meier of Ushahidi explains in a post at Ushahidi blog: The purpose of this project is to catalyze global media attention on Somalia by letting Somali voices take center stage—voices...
Crowdsourcing engages scholarly projects with a larger audience, Ms. Leon says, giving volunteers a feeling of investment and participation in the work of history. In helping to prove the public...
For example, monitoring social media channels generates valuable insight into what citizens really think. Holding webchats and inviting online comment actively engages people in debate....
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)....
We have long been bothered by the fact that many people spend many hours on content for which they are not compensated—and which sadly never helps to further the goals of the sponsor. Instead, we would like to figure out how to repeatedly get a few creators interested in a specific video task and provide them the feedback along the way that would help them to maximize their payoff.
Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative to recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It (http://www.manthanaward.org) was launched on 10th October '2004, by Digital...
Yesterday we posted a piece from Candace Klein of SoMoLend and securities attorney Sean Peppard on how the crowdfunding portions of the JOBS Act will unroll over the next several months. Today we follow up with some more detail from attorney Mike Liles, Jr. of the firm Karr, Tuttle and Campbell.
Paul Spinrad is the guy who gave the movement for a crowdfunding exemption in the U.S. its first big shove towards becoming law. In the first part of this exclusive series on Crowdsourcing.org, he recalled those early days and the efforts that have since begun to blossom in the form of the JOBS Act. Below, in the second half of the series, he also gives us an inside look at the fanatical devotion of some of crowdfunding's true believers.
A few weeks ago, we wrote about an open innovation initiative being undertaken by UNICEF, the United Nations agency charged with improving the lives of children worldwide. Intrigued by the story, we decided to follow up with the folks over at UNICEF to see how the initiative came about and what the goals are. We spoke with Paul Molinaro, senior manager of change and development at UNICEF’s Copenhagen office – check out the conversation after the jump.
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.
