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To satisfy the public’s desire for information about the war, newspapers published war maps that provided the locations and military capabilities of the warring nations. This map, published at...
“To satisfy the public’s desire for information about the war, newspapers published war maps that provided the locations and military capabilities of the warring nations. This map, published at...
The Hendon museum, which holds the most comprehensive collection of aircraft, is crowdsourcing to help them choose objects from its archives that they would like to see displayed in a narrative...
Scientists are now "crowdsourcing" the transcription of various historical ship weather logs(which, because handwritten in cursive, cannot be read by Optical Character Recognition...
Old Weather is a collaboration between a diverse collection of people and institutions. They aim to recover worldwide weather observations to help improve climate model predictions.
A presentation given by Dr Stuart Lee and Alun Edwards at the Beyond Collections Conference on 26th May 2011. The speakers present the Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten project (The First...
Further research confirmed that as a tool, "Yahoo! Answers" is as flimsy as a twist-tie, as dignified as a spork. There are vastly more competent crowdsourcing enterprises out there -...
Wikipedia is a fascinating resource and the most famous example of crowdsourcing. Kalev Leetaru of the Unidersity of Illinois and the folks at SGI decided to take a novel approach to mining this data. Leetaru loaded all four million English-language pages into the SGI UV 2000. Analyzing the data in near-real time, he created algorithms that were able to visualize not only how the locations connected to each other through time, but also the “tone” of the articles.
Since my childhood, I have always been fascinated with the idea of finding a hidden treasure. As a kid, I furiously dug into my grandma’s and uncle’s gardens looking for shiny stuff — without much luck, I must admit.
But times have changed and grandma’s garden is no longer the place to look for for treasures. In fact, nowadays, it is very hard to get your hands on valuable items — not because they are scarce or too expensive but, quite literally, because they are not tangible. I am talking about knowledge and know-how. Knowledge is what makes business go around, tells you where to build, how to manufacture, where to buy, what to sell and how to sell it. To have the right information at the right time is a key success factor in business, and knowledge is certainly the new gold of the 21st century.
But are there “central banks” which hold the new gold and slowly release it into the market to ensure continued economic growth? Yes, and perhaps strangely enough, there are universities and research institutes, or in other words, the world of academia: professors, researchers, Postdocs, PhDs. Away from the vagaries of everyday business life, academics dedicate themselves to researching and understanding topics down to the finest level of detail. Their knowledge is unmatched. They may not look at all the business implications of their research, but they certainly are the Knowledge Holders of the 21st century.
Patrick Meier of Ushahidi explains in a post at Ushahidi blog: The purpose of this project is to catalyze global media attention on Somalia by letting Somali voices take center stage—voices...
Many activists in Egypt donated food and medical supplies to support the Libyan revolution in early 2011. As a result, volunteers set up and coordinated humanitarian convoys from major Egyptian cities to Tripoli. But these convoys faced two major problems. First, volunteers needed to know where the convoys were in order to communicate this to Libyan revolutionists so they could wait for the fleet at the border and escort them to Tripoli. Second, because these volunteers were headed into a war zone, their friends and family wanted to keep track of them to make sure they were safe. The solution? IntaFeen.com.
Some look to gamification as a powerful way of addressing real-world problems. But crowdfunding could be how we "gamify" the real world itself.
The crowdsourcing platform is a virtual marketplace for freelancers and companies - this is where all projects are implemented online. Here the power lies in numbers. It's all about people coming together to work to achieve goals and solve problems. And to a large extent they are driven by their own motivation - not because a company has committed them to it. Both crowdsourcing and coworking are based on the fact that people who work in virtual and physical networks can in this way create a higher value collectively than if they acted independently. This is also true for problem-solving, innovation and creative output.
A new crowdfunding platform called Kickstriker launched today — but unlike Kickstarter, the dominant crowdfunding portal for creative ventures, Kickstriker aims to fund paramilitary projects.
Thinking about starting your own crowdfunding campaign, but don't know where to begin? James Mathe, who has run seven campaigns, provides an extensive list of tips and lessons learned.
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