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Creatives and video enthusiasts are invited by Oscar prize winner Jeremy Irons, spokesperson and ambassador of the initiative, to share on the platform videomaker.endinghunger.org a video that can...
Crowdsourcing could be used to generate large part-time and full-time employment in the developing world. The ease in accessibility of internet has made the world a very small place. The rapid...
This 3 minute video nicely explains the 7 Billion milestone! But this video doesn't only introduce National Geographic and 7billion.org's initiative. It's an eye-opener of what the...
"The global labor force is being disrupted by technology. Five billion people worldwide are about to come online for the first time. They're smart, hardworking, and determined to...
By inspiring and supporting young people to get into social entrepreneurship, aligning markets with social and environmental goals, Billy Parish believes they'll find themselves...
Born from a unique gathering of leaders from media, corporations, NGOs, universities, and grassroots organizations, 7 Billion Actions is a global movement open to every organization and individual...
Citizens don’t often get a say in the major building developments that populate their city, mostly because they are usually funded by wealthy architects or investors. However, we recently saw...
Pintofeed Inc., the creator of Pintofeed, has introduced the future of intelligent pet care with its autonomous pet feeder now available on the crowdfunding site, Indiegogo.com.The Pintofeed is...
According to Clay Shirky, cognitive surplus represents the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and to collaborate on large, sometimes global projects.
While growing populations are a worldwide issue, developing countries face the toughest, most urgent challenges. In the next 40 years, African cities alone are set to triple in size. Previously on...
Habibur Rehman, creator of the crowdfunding platform Halalfunder, writes in to discuss how crowdfunding can affect the Muslim world and what inspired him to create his platform.
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.
Africa Unsigned is targeting a continent and niche that is often overlooked in today's world due to the negative publicity that is generally channeled towards the African continent. Instead of...
If you were given the opportunity to save a life, would you? Can social media be used to save lives? A group at Stanford University hopes the answer to both questions is yes. Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service has partnered with OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform dedicated to the generation of solutions to social issues (and an initiative of the world-renowned design company IDEO) to save thousands of lives. And we need your help.
In this position paper, the researchers outlined a research agenda to extend the benefits of informal, paid microtasking to low-income workers in developing countries. This goal required research...
Quite ironic actually, that we live in a capitalistic free market system where competitiveness is valued above all and is claimed to be able to solve all problems in the world, while the investment system for upcoming businesses is in fact highly monopolized and controlled by a few organizations and individuals. It's is therefore absolutely necessary to increase competitiveness in the investment system. Crowdfunding is a tool that enables everyone, the full 100% of the population, to become involved in the economy of tomorrow. Its an investment system that is carried by the same community from which the ideas come from in the first place. As the crowdfunding market moves forward it will gradually put pressure on the investment system, increase its competitiveness and put a serious investment alternative for entrepreneurs.
Scientists hope that frog lovers around the world will use the Global Amphibian Blitz to likewise help them fill in the gaps in the knowledge banks of all things webbed. Amateurs, friends of...
Natalia Garcia had a dream to travel to 12 world cities to see how it would be possible to live in a place designed for people – and not for cars. Natalia is a journalist and cyclist from São Paulo, Brazil. And Sao Paulo, is a really terrible place for cyclists and pedestrians. So, she decided to turn her idea into reality, and left her job at Editora Abril to launch the project Cidades para Pessoas (Cities for People), a dream that materialized through crowdfunding.
Last week, Newsweek published an article titled The Real Minimum Wage. The results "showed" that Americans are the ones willing to accept the lowest possible salary for working on a task. The conclusion of the article? Americans are more desperate than anyone else in the world. What is the key problem of this study? There are many more US-based workers on Mechanical Turk compared to other nationalities. So, if you have a handful of workers from other countries, and hundreds of workers from the US, you are guaranteed to find more extreme findings for the US. Why? To put it simply, you are searching harder within the US to find small values, compared to the effort placed on other countries.
Wiser Earth is a Social Network for Sustainability. They help the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship...
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