Remember how boring it was to visit a museum as a child? And more, when everybody was over the sign you coudn’t even reach the explanations? Lately museums have adapted their displays to attract children’s attention, but see now How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience. Aliza Sherman writes about the new experiences implemented in [...]
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Citizen Crowdsourcing
People encouraging people’s initiatives for the common good: here’s a great use of crowdsourcing for the benefit of the Indian population, and it’s done through crowdfunding! Here’s how the system works: Utility employees call NextDrop’s interactive voice response system when they manually open neighborhood water valves. The system generates text message updates for local residents [...]
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Crowdsourcing is changing traditional business models allowing new service markets to develop across international borders, and enabling a large number of providers and consumers to participate. It’s also being used in social and public initiatives, like emergency response organisations in the case of the Haiti and Japan earthquakes, where a large number of people joined [...]
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While discussing crowdsourcing with friends here in Belgium, the issue of how moral it is to hire people for less money than a local worker would charge, has been risen. Belgium is a very socialist minded country, and I will give you an example of what I’m talking about: For the TaxMan, if you ask [...]
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Look at this article where Paul Sloane talks about Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing on the Rise [...] Crowdsourcing is an extrapolation of Open Innovation in which you throw out a challenge to a group of people that you may or may not know and solicit their ideas and solutions for your issue. Many web-based companies [...]
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Again this article in the Guardian: How remote teams can help the rapid response to disasters talks about crowds used for helping emergency response after a major disaster. After Haiti, the users trained to OpenStreetMap used it again for Japan tragedy. A report on humanitarian and volunteer technical groups co-operating after the 2010 Haiti earthquake [...]
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Ringo-ring posted to the Global Brain group this info about Ledface : Web-based startup is to launch their global brain for private testing in June A startup company called ledface is working on their new web service that will turn each registered user into a node within collectively intelligent network. After acquiring the membership, users can start [...]
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Crowdsourcing is thought in this article as a way to handle emergency situations. Dr Anu Vaidyanathan, in her article: Use of technology for emergency response talks about her dissertation titled Proactive Crowdsourcing, her name for a Location-Based Service that could be used for Emergency Response. mars 6, 2011: Minutes after the February 22, 2011, earthquake [...]
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The church has faith…in crowdsourcing! As you can see, they did their maths: The idea with the online vineyard is essentially the same: “many hands make light work.” The twist with crowdsourcing, though, is that when the tasks are chunked into minute-size efforts, more people participate. With more participation, you can have a greater gain [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Will the Mesh business model work for you?
Check the video from Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the “mesh” She shows how this business model works, sharing physical goods peer-to-peer.
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