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Urban Airship Creates Mobile Infrastructure Juggernaut Through Acquisition Of SimpleGeo
document Distributed Knowledge

Urban Airship has more than 20,000 customers using its tools and services to power their mobile applications. The data across hundreds of thousands of apps, millions of consumers and billions of...

Claire MackayDec 03, 2011 12:10 pm GMT645 views
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Urban Airship Creates Mobile Infrastructure Juggernaut Through Acquisition Of SimpleGeo
Using Crowdfunding To Fuel Urban Renewal
document Crowdfunding

If successful, crowdfunding could open a bevy of new doors for urban renewal projects in economically depressed areas around the country by making it possible to raise capital without having to...

Luis Enrique MoralesFeb 19, 2012 03:16 am GMT1414 views
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Using Crowdfunding To Fuel Urban Renewal
Improving NYC through crowdsourced urban design
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

What’s great about By the City/For the City is that you don’t need to be a city planner or have any artistic abilities to share your ideas, you just need to have a great vision. Plus the ideas are...

Tonya Van Dijk Apr 12, 2011 06:48 pm GMT2432 views
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Improving NYC through crowdsourced urban design
Urban Food Maps
document Open Innovation, Tools

Public officials, landscape architects, and community advocates have long debated the idea of the accessibility and upkeep of planting fruit trees and berry bushes, etc. on public property....

Fiona MaresNov 14, 2011 01:03 am GMT1116 views
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Urban Food Maps
Is Social Media the Missing Key in Urban Sustainability?
document Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge

There are many governments, organizations, and individuals in the EU that utilize social media to expand environmental awareness and action. Some of these can be followed on Twitter or Facebook...

Claire MackayNov 17, 2011 03:41 pm GMT1674 views
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Is Social Media the Missing Key in Urban Sustainability?
Bike-a-Bee Hopes To Take Urban Agriculture In Chicago To The Next Level
document Crowdfunding

In order to offset the project's costs, including the purchase of hives, bees and honey-processing equipment, Kinsman has created a Kickstarter campaign. Rewards for contributors include raw...

Jason RobbinsJan 14, 2012 02:28 am GMT1652 views
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Bike-a-Bee Hopes To Take Urban Agriculture In Chicago To The Next Level
Trend 1: Crowd-Funded Urbanism
blog Crowdfunding

Crowd-funding has become extremely popular over last years. Lots of cultural, artistic and design initiatives have already been made possible thanks to platforms like Kickstarter. But will this...

Berend de JongeJan 21, 2012 02:24 pm GMT1719 views
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Trend 1: Crowd-Funded Urbanism
Minecraft Partners With United Nations For Urban Planning
article Crowd Creativity

Minecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game. Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the...

Fritz SchaeferSep 06, 2012 10:33 pm GMT1640 views
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Minecraft Partners With United Nations For Urban Planning
BMW crowdsources the future
article Open Innovation

Urban Driving Experience Challenge is a two-phase crowdsourcing competition giving consumers the opportunity to come up with ideas for new features and functions that will ‘enhance the urban...

Claire MackaySep 24, 2012 12:00 pm GMT1940 views
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BMW crowdsources the future
BMW Urban Driving Experience Challenge Intro Video
video Open Innovation

The Urban Driving Experience Challenge dovetails rather neatly with BMW’s tie-up with the Guggenheim for the long-term BMW Guggenheim Lab initiative which is looking to ‘spark a conversation about...

Claire MackaySep 24, 2012 12:25 pm GMT855 views
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BMW Urban Driving Experience Challenge Intro Video
Urban farm and market encourages consumers to be involved in the growing process
article Crowdfunding, Distributed Knowledge

Funded with USD 25,000 from their Kickstarter backers, the team behind The Farmery aims to further develop its prototype low-cost shipping container farms to eventually create a space that is able...

Fiona MaresOct 09, 2012 12:54 am GMT807 views
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Urban farm and market encourages consumers to be involved in the growing process
Crowdsourcing underused urban assets: from mapping to action
article Distributed Knowledge

Many projects around the world working on tactical and DIY urbanism are using crowdsourced mapping to gain attention and spread the word locally, creating contexts of individual and collective...

Benjamin FosselOct 18, 2012 12:31 pm GMT1113 views
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Crowdsourcing underused urban assets: from mapping to action
Crowdfunding for 100 Urban Gardens Across America
article Crowdfunding

Whole Kids Foundation, PACT and Indiegogo have joined forces to create an inspiring crowdfunding initiative: building 100 urban gardens across the United States. This is the first time a...

Claire MackayJan 23, 2013 05:32 am GMT1077 views
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Crowdfunding for 100 Urban Gardens Across America
Why Urban Dictionary Comes In Handy On The Witness Stand
article Distributed Knowledge

So crowd source basically means anyone who wants can write a definition of any word. They could, in theory, make it up and sometimes they do. And all you have to do is get five other people who...

Samuel BennettMay 23, 2013 01:08 am GMT235 views
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Why Urban Dictionary Comes In Handy On The Witness Stand
An Ambitious Project Looks to Fix Urban America through Crowd Sourcing
document Distributed Knowledge

Move over community meetings, Give a Minute is here! Indeed, community meetings are out of the picture because of the Give a Minute campaign. The Give a Minute campaign crowdsources the...

Luis Enrique MoralesJan 23, 2011 06:33 pm GMT788 views
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An Ambitious Project Looks to Fix Urban America through Crowd Sourcing
ioby
site Crowdfunding / Donations, Philanthropy and Sponsorship

ioby connects people with great ideas for environmental change in their neighborhoods to people and money they need to make it happen. ioby.org is a crowd-resourcing platform where people share...

Erin BarnesMay 17, 2011 05:48 pm GMT1611 views
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ioby
20 Kickstarter Projects that Raised Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars: #6 "Urbanized"
document Crowdfunding

Self-described "Design Geek," Gary Hustwit, was conducting interviews with his cinematographer for his third documentary, "Urbanized," about urban design, when he hit a...

Sebastian BlancaJul 13, 2011 03:54 pm GMT1408 views
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20 Kickstarter Projects that Raised Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars: #6
PhillyTreeMap: Crowdsourcing the urban forest
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation

PhillyTreeMap is a web mapping application that solicits citizen input, similar to the successful OpenStreetMap. Robert Cheetham started the project two years ago when he won a government grant...

Fritz SchaeferAug 05, 2011 11:43 am GMT1017 views
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PhillyTreeMap: Crowdsourcing the urban forest
The Enabling City: Crowdfunding Urban Livability
document Open Innovation

The Enabling City, a new way of thinking about communities and change. Guided by principles such as collaboration, innovation and participation, the pioneering initiatives featured in The...

Fritz SchaeferOct 17, 2011 03:42 pm GMT990 views
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The Enabling City: Crowdfunding Urban Livability
Spacehive: A Crowd-Funding Platform For Urban Initiatives
document Crowdfunding

Asked about the benefits for third-party funding, founder of Spacehive Chris Gourlay states in an interview: “Public space is a huge arena that has a huge bearing on our quality of life,...

Luis Enrique MoralesMar 30, 2012 07:36 am GMT1340 views
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Spacehive: A Crowd-Funding Platform For Urban Initiatives
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