Crowdsourcing For Good: Join the Conversation Online

Crowdsourcing Week is collaborating with Nordics SOCAP and Living Bridges Planet to facilitate a unique global conversation on crowdsourcing for social good. The conversation begins on Oct 1 with a introductory webinar that will highlight best practices for collaborative innovation to solve societies challenges. What’s going on in Digital Social innovation? Citizen Services? Crowdsourced governance? […]

Written by Priti Ambani

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Crowdsourcing Week is collaborating with Nordics SOCAP and Living Bridges Planet to facilitate a unique global conversation on crowdsourcing for social good. The conversation begins on Oct 1 with a introductory webinar that will highlight best practices for c
ollaborative innovation to solve societies challenges.

What’s going on in Digital Social innovation? Citizen Services? Crowdsourced governance? We are inviting all you social innovators to follow and be part of the online discussion leading up to Crowdsourcing Week Europe Conference in Copenhagen, Oct 14-16.

What: Introductory Webinar on Crowdsourcing for Good

Where: Online at bit.ly/lbpLIVE

When: Oct 1 6pm Berlin/Stockholm, 9am San Francisco, 12am Singapore time (next day) Check the time in your city.

What to expect?

  • Bert-Ola Bergstrand, Chairman and co-founder at Social Capital Forum, will open the ‘Crowdsourcing for Good’ webinar.
  • Priti Ambani, Global Media Director of Crowdsourcing Week will give an overview of the social innovation space powered by crowds and will highlight the goals for this dialogue.
  • Vinay Dora will talk about mapping of the Indian and Asian crowdfunding field.
  • We will then introduce Babele, a collaborative platform for idea exchange- that we will use to assimilate ideas generated through this two-week social experiment.
  • The conversation doesn’t end with the webinar but only begins here. The floor will then be open to social entrepreneurs to share their story, comments, questions and ideas through various platforms and will culminate with thoughts and ideas stemming from a Nesta supported Digital Social Innovation session at Crowdsourcing Week Europe in Copenhagen on Oct 14.

Follow the conversation on social media.

Hashtags: #CSWEurope, #Nordicsocap

Twitter handles to follow:

Looking forward to a great conversation.

About Author

About Author

Priti Ambani

Priti Ambani is the Global Media Director at Crowdsourcing Week, a thought leader and prominent writer on social enterprises, start-ups and web 2.0 businesses. Previously, Priti grew Ecopreneurist, a nascent green business blog into a notable social business resource as site director and managing editor. Working from the ground up, she has developed successful business and communications strategies for impact organizations that aim to create social, environment and economic wealth. Priti is a Professional Engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Biological Resources Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.Priti lives in the Washington DC Metro area with her husband and sons, is a lover of the outdoors, traveling and from-scratch cooking!

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