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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 Read More …
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 More …
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.
Here Robin Cangie is talking about Bolder, Kickstarter, Edot and many other companies that are enacting real social change on the social web: What Does a 21st-Century Business Look Like? The missions and business models of these companies vary widely, but there are three main things that they all have in common: 1. They depend Read More …
Here are some Notes from “Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining” (CSDM) workshop taken by Panos Ipeirotis. The workshop took place in Hong Kong, just a few days ago, and tackled different issues on crowdsourcing, like: – When should we let people talk to each other vs let them work independently? – How Crowdsourçable is Read More …
I participated to a very nice ECCO seminar last week from Chris Exton (University of Limerick). He is investigating recent internet phenomena such as crowdsourcing and open-source, and tries to explain it from an evolutionary psychology perspective. He is linking it to altruism, a characteristic that, from an evolution point of view, is seen as positive for human society. Read More …