Crowdsourcing T-Shirt Design Contest to support efforts to help the homeless in SF
Crowdsourcing Week and 99designs has launched an online t-shirt design contest designed to engage the creativity of the crowd and encourage participation in helping the homeless in San Francisco. For those interested in...
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Democracy Advocate MiVote Expands to the UK
1947 the British politician Winston Churchill famously said “…democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” 70-plus years later, industrialised democracies...
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The Next Step in Business Audio? Ask the Crowd!
Story as Communication, From Caveman to Walkman When humans listen to a story something amazing happens. Each individual in a crowd reaches into their own personal memories to create and complete the scenes in which the action...
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Count on Mathesia to Improve Innovation
Mathesia is a crowdsourcing-based innovation platform headquartered in Italy, though available globally, that brings together a highly specialized crowd of about 3,000 vetted mathematicians and data scientists from around the...
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Harnessing AI to Crowdsource the Diagnosis of Incurable Diseases
We are now quite used to seeing the disruption that’s taking place in many marketplaces due to the combination of new technology and mass connectivity in the hands of visionary startups, unencumbered by the ‘rules’ of...
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What Does Spoof Storming of a US Air Force Base Tell Us About Public Trust?
The originally anonymous creator of a Facebook spoof has gone public to explain he meant the storming of Area 51 on September 20 – “to see them aliens” – as a joke. What got him to break cover was 1.9 million people (so far)...
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Crowdsourcing Ideas Against Populism
If selfishness is a trigger of many issues in today’s modern democracies, as suggested in my previous article, populism could be regarded as a facilitator in this game. That’s the topic of this article, with an invitation to you to contribute with your thoughts and views. I would like to use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas.
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Helping Out Your Fellow Humans
PARTICIPATION = SATISFACTION In 1996 Jerry Maguire, an aspiring sports agent, repeated a four word request to his first and only client: “Help me help you!” And you know where that got him. The feedback gave him the...
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Fielding Open Innovation Challenges in Agri-tech
As the population grows at an ever faster and faster rate, transforming how the world feeds itself is going to be a necessity. Even though up to a third of the food currently produced goes to waste, incremental improvements to...
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Crowdsourcing Engineering Solutions Through Challenges
Surcle.io is a global crowd-engineering platform enabling corporations, SMEs, and start-ups to scale resources and tackle engineering and hardware challenges within their organizations and product life cycle. It was launched by...
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