Category: Mass Collaboration
Can Artificial Intelligence have a Conscious Sense of Right and Wrong?
by Epi Ludvik | Jun 25, 2020 | Crowd Creativity, Mass Collaboration
How each of us has coped with the Covid-19 pandemic has shone an unblinking spotlight on our actions. Whether as a high risk front-line worker or a person who has been self-isolating, a government or corporate decision-maker,...
Read MoreSame Coronavirus Threat, Different Responses Around the World
by Fiona Stoffer | Mar 31, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Mass Collaboration
It is fascinating to see how different leaders choose to deal with a crisis like the coronavirus outbreak. Let’s compare three approaches: the “Populists,” the “Believers” and the “Proactives.” The Populists Solutions put...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Citizen Scientists to Feed Scientific Developments
by Clive Reffell | Feb 25, 2020 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
AI technology is increasingly used to open up new horizons for scientists and researchers. It enables analysis of masses of data much faster than humans can manage, identifies deep trends and patterns that could be indiscernible...
Read MoreThe Decade in Crowdsourcing Transcription
by Ben Brumfield | Jan 13, 2020 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
Nine years ago, I summed up 2010 as “the year that crowdsourced transcription finally caught on.” This seems like a good time to review the big developments in the field over the decade that 2010 launched. What the field looked...
Read MoreWhat Does Spoof Storming of a US Air Force Base Tell Us About Public Trust?
by Epi Ludvik | Jul 30, 2019 | Crowd Causes, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
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)...
Read MoreHelping Out Your Fellow Humans
by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey | Jul 19, 2019 | cocreation, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
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...
Read MoreHow Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
by Damon Brown | Oct 17, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...
Read MoreQ&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
by Clive Reffell | Oct 9, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Collaborative Economy, Mass Collaboration, Uncategorized
Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between...
Read MoreChanging Government Through Crowdsourcing
by Damon Brown | Aug 30, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
We’ve had one of the oldest crowdsourcing examples right under our nose. We vote every single day, whether it is an election of our next world leader, a response to “What do we want to eat?” at the family dinner table, or among...
Read MoreA Thousand Eyes Are Better Than Two
by Shay Hershkovitz | Jul 3, 2018 | Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration
How do you scan an area of 305,000 sq km (118,000 sq mi)? This was the challenge for several countries in 2014, trying to solve the mystery of the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Tremendous effort and resources were put into...
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