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The filmmakers behind a new documentary film (Back to Gürün) about the Armenian Genocide have just launched a campaign on the fundraising website Indiegogo.com to “Raise24K in 24Days” in April to...
article Distributed Knowledge
Hatebase, a new crowdsourced database of multilingual hate speech from The Sentinel Project, is an attempt to create a repository of words and phrases that researchers can use to detect the early...
video Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationWith just a few minutes of your time, you can help families discover what happened to their loved ones and restore the identities of people the Nazis tried to erase from history. The United States...
CrowdfundingWith crowdfunding becoming an ever more popular way to raise start up costs for businesses and projects all over the world, Crowdsourcing.org decided to take a look at ten cases where crowdfunding has been put to a benevolent use.
The rise in the number of people online — not just in the developed world, but in poorer countries too — is transforming the world into a truly “global village.” As a result, those who have internet access have more opportunities than ever. Perhaps the most fitting example to kick off our look at philanthropic instances of crowdfunding is AHumanRight.org, a non-government organization whose mission is to ensure “global access to information as a human right.” The charitable group employed the crowdfunding method in an attempt to buy the high capacity communications satellite Terrestar 1 from its bankrupt owners. AHumanRight.org planned to provide internet access to some of the poorest people on the planet, free of charge.
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video Distributed KnowledgeBetween 1933 and 1945, millions of children were displaced as a result of persecution by the Nazis and their collaborators. After World War II, relief agencies photographed some of the children who...
document Distributed Knowledge
Juliana Rotich's proud of the way Ushahidi gave a voice to ordinary Kenyans to explain what was happening in their own communities. "Africans tell their story better and represent the...
Open InnovationWe examine an open innovation initative being undertaken by USAID and Humanity United to help minimize and prevent mass atrocities with the aid of novel technologies.
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