Kiva.org is now working in India. The microlending non-profit made the announcement yesterday in a press release. What’s The Big Deal And why India? 32% of the population falls below the international poverty line. And 68% of the population is living on less...
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4 Examples of Revolutionary Crowdsourcing Projects
The crowdsourcing — work process — has been getting a great deal of attention. In part, crowdsourcing can thank Jeff Howe for all this attention. But to be clear crowdsourcing has existed well before Howe coined the phrase. I can argue...
Video: Speaking with USAID’s Stephanie Grosser About Crowdsourcing
Yesterday we spoke with Stephanie Grosser — Communications Specialist — for USAID. We spent the large part of our conversation discussing crowdsourcing. This was an interesting conversation. USAID used the crowd to locate USAID Development Credit Authority...
Singapore Celebrates its 47 Years of Independence
Singapore has a rich history. The southeast asian city-state can be tracked back to the second century AD, when it was an outpost of the Sumatran Srivijaya Empire.
USAID on Crowdsourcing and Transparency in Government
We are very excited to be speaking with Stephanie Grosser, Communications Specialist for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID So what is the USAID — it’s a federal agency created by John F. Kennedy. And the agency...
Will Crowdfunding Platforms Help Fund Civic Projects?
Thinking Kickstarter When we hear crowdfunding many of us — including me — think Kickstarter. Which is understandable since the crowdfunding company has successfully launched over 65 thousand projects. And has over $305 million in total dollars...
Crowdsourcing? Why Can’t I Simply Outsource?
So let’s start with the fundamentals — outsourcing vs. crowdsourcing. Outsourcing The Project So why do you outsource? Wikipedia gives a very nice answer to your question: The most common reasons why companies decide to outsource include cost reduction and cost...
Wil Merritt: Is Crowdsourcing Content the Future of Advertising?
Can you believe it?! This is our 3rd CrowdChat and we have a number of industry experts lined-up for future chats. Who Is Wil Merritt? Today Wil is the CEO at Zooppa.com. And he has an extensive career in the marketing and advertising space. Merritt spent an...
Lucien Engelen: Crowdsourcing & Healthcare — The Future!
Who Is Lucien Engelen? I am very excited to say that tomorrow will be our 2nd CrowdChat. And we will be speaking with Lucien Engelen — Director of Radboud REshape & Innovation Center. Engelen is passionate about healthcare. And what I find most impressive is...
Video: Crowdsourcing Week Speaks with Max Sidorov on Google Hangout
Yesterday I published an article where I discussed some of my personal feelings about Max Sidorov. And last night Epi Ludvik and I where able to speak with Max. We used Google+ Hangouts on Air — it was fun and Epi was feeling rather comical last...
Max Sidorov: Social Maverick or Just a Nice Guy?
So what has not been said or covered by the media when it comes to Max Sidorov. Some call him a saint, others call Max a hero but Karen Klein just calls Sidorov — “a nice guy.” Personally, as a father and son, I would just like to shake his hand and buy him a...
Our Interview With François Petavy, CEO of eYeka
eYeka leverages the world’s creativity to enable organizations and people to create a better future together –eYeka And eYeka has worked with companies such as P&G, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, Hyundai and Microsoft — to generate new ideas....
Sean Moffitt: Why Social Business Success Needs a Pinch of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Week is proud to announce our very first Twitter event — #CrowdChat. The event will be taking place on Wednesday, June 27th 2012 from 8pm – 9pm EDT. And who will be on #CrowdChat — well I am hoping that you will be there? And besides...
Liza Alert Uses Crowdsourcing To Find Missing Children
There is no better use case for crowdsourcing than leveraging the power of the crowd to find abducted children.
Will The US Ignite A New Evolution In Crowdsourcing
Sir Tim Burners Lee is one of the most influential men in human history. Why — well on December 25, 1990 he invented, a little thing called, the World Wide Web (the Web). And over its 22 years — the Web has connected 2,267,233,742 people on planet Earth....
The Daily Crowdsource Is Launching Crowdopolis In LA
Crowdsourcing has most certainly been getting a great deal of attention over the past few years. And perhaps the origins of that attention can be traced back to Jeff Howe or Barry Libert or perhaps James Surowiecki or even David Bratvold. David is the CEO and founder...
David Bratvold, Daily Crowdsource CEO, Talks About Crowdopolis
David is what we call an industry leader in the crowdsourcing space. He is CEO and founder of Daily Crowdsource. The media property is less than two years old but Bratvold has been able to turn the young property into a goto crowdsourcing resourceThe Daily Crowdsource...
Andy Zynga of NineSigma Talks About NineSights
I first spoke with Andy in early May and he was educating me on open innovation. And on June 5th, NineSigma launched the first open innovation social media destination, NineSights. I was very curious about NineSights so I decided to reach out to Zynga to learn a bit...
The World Wide Fund Uses Crowd Intelligence
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Switzerland) and Chaordix are working on an idea — use the Swiss crowd, specifically startups, to develop new sustainable consumption ideas. Chaordix will be engaging its crowdsourcing community — WWF Green Ideas...
Will Fansourcing Change Social Shopping, Ask Needle
So we talk a great deal about how companies and governments are using crowdsourcing, from co-creation to designing a new troop transport vehicle. But what if I told you that a company is using crowdsourcing — more specifically fansourcing —...
PyBossa Brings Crowdsourcing to the Open Source Community
When we talk about crowdsourcing as a work process we normally think of paid work — contests, macrotasks or microtasks. But what if I told you that we are only tapping into a portion of the crowdsourcing work potential? You have heard of open source? Open source...