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Wired is partnering with The Guardian and New York University in a project called the “Citizens’ Agenda” ahead of Wednesday night’s Republican presidential nominee debate in Arizona – the last...
Here are some Crowdsourced Questions for the Presidential Debates: -Can you describe legislation which you think would be good for the country if only it could be legally enacted, but which is...
Crowdsourcing seems to be one of the new strategies. Today, we heard from a 30-year-old graduate of an elite law school who is still living with his parents. He has turned to the internet for...
The most intriguing part of the conference is a debate between advocates and opponents of crowdfunding. Among onsite participants are lawyers, investors, entrepreneurs and crowdfunders from New...
A crowdsourcing demand on alternative energy sources brought to a debate on who should receive funding in the future and why.
Netflix is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America .This week,Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that they will be eliminating...
Most importantly, though, neither Kickstarter nor the NEA have ever said that they thought it should or would be an “either/or” situation of one organization providing all the arts funding in the...
President Obama may have seemed to be half-asleep in his first presidential debate performance with Mitt Romney in Denver, but his supporters were wide awake on Facebook and Twitter, according to data from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Since then, however, media organizations and the White House alike have quietly dismissed the process of crowdsourcing questions, likely because of the perceived silliness and...
Google Moderator has been crowdsourcing questions to ask the presidential candidates, as well as asking for users to vote and comment on their favorite submissions, with the goal of having the candidates answer the crowd. It turns out, CNN will not actually be using the questions in the second presidential debate.
A live international debate between advocates and opponents of equity crowdfunding is set for this week.
While the parallels may be striking, there are clear advantages the 21st century distributed worker has over her 19th century sisters. Indeed, workers were often tied to one merchant, while now...
The expansion of crowdsourcing has coincided with the global recession that put millions of people out of work and forced them to use their skills as freelancers. The economic downturn made...
Of course, it doesn’t take that long to crowdsource things in the Internet age. Brookings and Montpelier place Madison’s original text at the center of the new Web platform they’re calling...
Sue Acton, founder of Bubble & Balm, the first business to successfully raise finance through an equity-based crowdfunding platform (Crowdcube) agrees: "I think clearer guidelines would be...
Social media is not simply irreverent. Once social-media projects roll out, their code and hardware often get recycled and repurposed. Until recently, Russian civic leaders were debating what...
The first American presidential debate is taking place tonight, pitting President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney against each other to earn voters’ trust and approval. To honor the occasion, we are highlighting a few crowdsourcing initiatives tied to the campaign.
“We only got two students in credentialed for the debate, so we suddenly realized we had a mountain to climb and few people to help us climb it,” said Kelly Fincham, Assistant Professor at Hofstra...
The use of participatory development methods (PMDs) is not a new concept. Having been pioneered by organisations such as the USAid-funded African Development Foundation, PMDs have been used in...
It's an interesting debate on crowdsourcing vs. smartsourcing. It argues that it depends on the objectives of the activity and the desired result as to whether crowdsourcing should be the way...
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