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Social media "Facebook" is being used to create the initiative called “To the blackboard!”. This initiative allows young people to engage and create their own list of postulates. Then...
An interview with Matej Hruska, the student founder of Demagog.sk. Demagog.sk is a Slovakian web project that aims to analyze politicians' claims based on facts and ensure they are correct...
These are the parties like The Pirate Party, who have campaigned for strict Freedom of Information Laws. Or Bright Future, who have used online crowdsourcing techniques to try to write a new...
Mr. Guttenberg was hardly the only German politician to proudly affix "Dr." to his name, but he was the first to be subjected to the forensic scrutiny of an online examination of his...
GOOOH stands for 'Get Out of Our House' and is pronounced like the word 'go'. It is a NON-PARTISAN plan to place 435 citizen representatives on the ballot in 2012, competing for...
They believe that the next big healthcare breakthroughs will be a direct result of “smart health” – brought by the exponential growth in web and mobile technologies and the ingenuity of...
Other than politicians and bankers, few types of people come in for as much abuse as amateurs. The word itself is practically an insult: a goal gets fumbled, an actor forgets his lines and what time is it? Amateur hour. Maybe it’s just me, but a guy who says he’s “an amateur” usually has a weird look in his eyes and talks a lot about steam trains.
Social tools, including crowdsourcing, make it possible for citizens to voice their concerns and for their concerns to be addressed and responded to – which is very important while politicians are...
The TownHall platform aims to help public officials and candidates better engage with the public.
OurSay is a social enterprise run by a board of directors and supported by a team of amazing of volunteers. The crew gets politicians committed to responding to your issues on the OurSay site....
Truthsquad.com features controversial quotes from politicians or pundits and asks the community whether they think they are true or false. Community members are welcome to make a first guess, then...
Crowdsourcing continues to gain momentum in the private sector. From Microsoft’s Imagine CupLego’s Mindstorms and from GE’s $200m Ecoimagination Challenge to Sony’s Open Planet Ideas, we’ve seen countless examples of cost-efficient, time saving, and high yield crowdsourcing implementations. While crowdsourcing has gained traction in the private sector as a great vehicle for innovation and customer engagement, it is interesting to observe how the public sector is embracing crowdsourcing as an economically effective vehicle for engaging their constituents.
In such a highly developed technological age, the British political parties are missing out on an opportunity to connect with a greater percentage of the most apathetic of voters- including young...
Balmain Greens candidate and Leichhardt mayor, Jamie Parker, believes in how social media and crowdsourced sites can help politicians in their campaigns and most especially, in dealing with citizen...
Terms, such as co-creation, mass customization, interactive value creation, or open innovation represent the increasing success of new (predominantly Internet-based) practices and give evidence that the general public can constitute a source of enhanced innovation.
In many countries the public sector has been seeking to reform itself, anyway. Do the open innovation methods, broadly understood provide a way? In this post, Dennis Hilgers and Frank Piller look at the wider benefits of an open public service and raise some of the most important issues.
The author, Erik Hersman, hopes that the Kenyan government will look closely at what the W3C has provided, and at what Sir Tim Berners-Lee advocated recently in regards to open data. Dr. Ndemo is...
Supporters of the Sunlight Foundation's transparency work were no doubt pleased to hear that 67.9 percent of surveyed citizens and 92.6 percent of surveyed government employees indicated that...
Open Data in government is a part of a growing movement where enlightened policy encourages the use of cloud computing, web 2.0 and social technologies to promote government transparency and...
This wiki documents cases of plagiarism in the doctoral dissertation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. It also serves as an example for collaborative documentation of cases of plagiarism in general....
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Their mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging...
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.
