Tag: cities
Crowdsourcing Unknown Details of a City’s Complex Public Transport Service
by Clive Reffell | Jul 14, 2020 | Citizen Engagement, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourcing
Mexico City is a sprawling metropolis that is home to almost 22 million people. Even though a 2016 crowdsourcing effort created a map of the routes serviced by self-employed bus drivers to make it easier to navigate the city, an...
Read MoreCan Crowdsourcing Influence Building Design More Than Architects?
by Clive Reffell | Jan 29, 2020 | Crowd Creativity, Crowdsourcing
I learned recently that architects are involved in only 2% of the newly constructed built environment in the UK. A week later, a report released based on a housing design audit for England that had examined over 140 housing...
Read MoreMayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding
by Clive Reffell | Jul 11, 2018 | Citizen Engagement, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Social Business
The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the...
Read MoreBenefits of effective crowdsourcing shown by 10 top US projects
by Clive Reffell | Jun 1, 2017 | Citizen Engagement, cocreation, Collective Intelligence, Crowd Creativity, Crowd Tasks, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration, Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing can reduce costs, speed up project timelines, tap in to crowd intelligence and creativity, and engage citizens at all levels of corporate and government processes. It’s not just for new startups, iconic...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – December 2
by Ejona Blyta | Dec 2, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – How Asia Is adopting crowdfunding from the West; how to use crowdsourcing to drive corporate sustainability innovations; how crowdsourcing is allowing...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – November 18
by Ejona Blyta | Nov 18, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – ‘Imagine Boston 2030’ crowdsourcing the city’s future; crowdsourcing ideas for improving railways; crowdsourcing new prediction tool for better prognosis...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 14
by Ejona Blyta | Oct 14, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – The latest project to come out of Lego’s crowdsourcing platform; overcoming Europe’s biggest disconnect; crowdsourcing leading to better...
Read MoreDecentralized energy is the future – and it’s closer than you think (part two)
by Epi Ludvik | Oct 11, 2016 | Citizen Engagement, Collaborative Economy, Crowdsourcing, Mass Collaboration, Sharing Economy
In my last post I looked at some of the technologies that are ushering in the decentralized energy revolution, such as cheap solar power, home batteries and the blockchain. But there’s another type of battery that could also...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 16
by Ejona Blyta | Sep 16, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – Yoko’s crowdsourced project to fight gender violence; China to use online crowdfunding to help restore parts of the Great Wall; scientists turning...
Read MoreCrowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9
by Ejona Blyta | Sep 9, 2016 | News
Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing a documentary on The Beatles; crowdfunding future cities; global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures and more …...
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