‘The Russification of WikiLeaks’: Crowdsourcing the Fight Against Russia’s Casual Corruption
document Distributed KnowledgeCrowdsourcing, it seems, is finally catching on in Russia.
Tim SatterthwaiteJan 29, 2011 03:58 pm GMT2116 views
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Crowdsourcing, it seems, is finally catching on in Russia.
The popular crowdsourced Election Violation Map (kartanarusheniy.ru), developed by Golos.org together with gazeta.ru, is the main reason on the pressure. On November 28, while Golos held a...
Since September, in collaboration with Gazeta online newspaper, Golos had been running an online crowdsourced project known as Karta Narusheniy (mapped election violations). It's a thorn in...
“The mapping service now includes detailed plans of almost 400 cities across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Crowdsourcing has allowed Yandex.Maps to add plans of such cities as Chita,...
Government policy based on the broad application of the new model would lead to fundamental social shifts. The distance and estrangement between the authorities and the public would be reduced....
“It’s the connection between the offline and online worlds that is important,” says Alexey Sidorenko, head of Teplitsa Social Technologies, an organisation that works on civic change. . “It’s...
Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about this today (translated into English): " Lobbyists and activists supporting the amendments, argue that they are directed exclusively against the...
All three Russian sites have copied Kickstarter to a large extent – even down to certain website layout details. Online crowdfunding started to develop in the mid-2000s with such projects as...
Bribr is not the only crowdsourcing platform tracking bribery and corruption out there. Its currently dormant predecessor in the post-Soviet space – vzyatka.crowdmap.com [ru] – was launched by...
Panfilova and Kabanov also praised recent grassroots efforts on reporting corruption, such as the iPhone application Bribr, with Kabanov noting that such crowdsourcing efforts can also have a...
Back in 2007, Brightidea helped Cisco run their first ever open-innovation competition, the Cisco I-Prize, an external call for innovative ideas on technologies and markets to help the company...
Russia's booming Internet community is now the largest in Europe [2] [ru] with at least 52.9 million monthly visitors – a very important milestone in itself with countless implications. The...
There is one additional online activity that should be mentioned. It is not very innovative itself, but it is essential for enabling innovation: crowdfunding, webmoney and tools for donating micro...
The LiveJournal community “Dedicated to Maniac Psycho Sculptors" is a hub for dumping photos of children’s playgrounds that are more than a little bit… off — perilous swings, rusty slides,...
StreetJournal.org , a project launched in the city of Perm, now operating in several major cities across Russia. The site has publicized nearly 8,000 problems, of which more than a third have...
Tugeza helps to attract financing for projects all over Russia that are diverse in both theme and scale: at the moment, volunteers are raising funds for a rehabilitation and education complex in...
In Russia, foreign internet companies struggle to gain much influence. This preference for homegrown ventures arguably extends into crowdsourcing platforms. We caught up with Maxim Fedchenko, the CEO of GoDesigner, a platform that connects businesses with designers, to ask him about his platform and his thoughts on foreign companies looking to enter the Russian market.
Some time ago, Vladimir Belyaev tried to implement the idea of crowdsourcing for “Nepofigism.” He never expected to make money from “Nepofigism.” All attempts to raise funds were undertaken in...
In Russia, a crowdsourcing application called Bribr is looking to show just how much money is being spent on bribes in hopes of stemming the unhealthy practice. It’s looking for input from the corrupters themselves.
Take Kickstarter as an example. This crowdsourcing platform has only recently been launched in the UK, but it has already raised $3.3m in pledges for more than 400 projects. SOURCE LINK to the...
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