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Yesterday, I had the pleasure to hear Thierry Happe, president and cofounder of the Netexplorateur Observatory, talking about the influences of the digital society in the fields of journalism, marketing and education. He came from France, invited by the IHEC and Wanabe, and as he said, had to limit himself to 3 topics because the Read More …
This is great news! Players of the game FoldIt solved the puzzle of the molecular structure of a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys that hadn’t been solved for 15 years. The game FoldIt has been created to propose as a game the scientific problem of finding the 3D molecular structure of a protein. Read More …
The most mentioned benefits of Crowdsourcing are that reaching many people allows you to do things cheaper and faster. This properties have been tested by Stephen de Souza, screenwriter, and Sunil Rajaraman, CEO of Scripped.com. They published their experience in: Crowdsourcing creative content: a case study, check hereunder their Lessons Learned! Steven de Souza has written Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …