It’s now over a month since the Oil Spill began (day 35). Over the course of this time, the term “crowdsourcing” has been involved in several efforts.
One of those uses is in the arena of observation.
When the spill reached the US coast,a site was put out using the open-source crowdsourcing platform Ushaidi (also used on [...]
Around the time the Crowdsourcing Memorandum from the White House got out, the Game Developers Conference was going on in San Francisco.
And in it, one of the speakers was Kumar Garg, a policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, who talked about how he wants the game industry to delve into [...]
(Updated at the end of the post)
Happening tomorrow in Portugal is a crowdsourcing initiative that aims to look out for the environment.
The goal: to clean up and end illegal wastes, getting rid of small agglomerations of garbage, house appliances, tires and other non enviromentl friendly products. It’s called “Limpar Portugal”.
It was insired by a video [...]
One of the most well know and successful crowdsourcing projects is a non-profit one, Wikipedia. And while many commercial projects have been getting much attention lately, people have been trying to use crowdsourcing with other non-profit uses (like the Government, for example).
A great example of this is what was a very fast response to an [...]