Tag: cities
Crowdsourcing Unknown Details of a City’s Complex Public Transport Service
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...
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Can Crowdsourcing Influence Building Design More Than Architects?
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...
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Mayor of London Has £1m For Community Projects Using Crowdfunding
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...
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Benefits of effective crowdsourcing shown by 10 top US projects
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – December 2
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – November 18
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 14
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...
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Decentralized energy is the future – and it’s closer than you think (part two)
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 16
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...
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Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 9
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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