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Hatari: Battling Corruption in Kenya
In the 2011 edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world, coming in at #154 out of 182 countries on a list that ranks countries from least corrupt to most…
February 4th White House Calls for Balance in Fighting Piracy and Promoting Innovation
A recent White House statement, made in response to the fall of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), has pointed out the need to create legislation that will prevent piracy but also not put other forms of innovation and personal…
DSM’s Open Innovation Challenge Awards a Trip to the London Olympics
DSM, a science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials, has just announced the launch of an open innovation contest that challenges designers and creative thinkers to develop high-quality sports equipment using the company’s own Arnitel® Eco material. A thermoplastic co-polyester…
The Philippines Crowdsource Tourism Campaign
The Government of the Philippines has launched a new campaign in an attempt to attract more tourists to the country. Countries all around the world invest millions of dollars every year as they seek to attract more visitors, but the…
English Wikipedia Shuts Down in Opposition of SOPA/PIPA
On January 16th, the Wikipedia community decided to shut down the public information sharing site for 24 hours today in a protest against the United States’ proposed legislation: The U.S. House of Representation’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the…
Capital Creation and Crowdfunding Conference New York Jan 23rd
You’ve heard about the U.S.’s involvement with capital formation, job creation, and the crowdfunding bill. You’ve witnessed changes in the capital markets and economic system, and you’ve watched how the Internet and mass media has, in recent years, revolutionized everything…
Dutch Magazine Sprout Awards Martijn Arets “Best Entrepreneur 2011.”
A Dutch magazine called Sprout nominated 20 entrepreneurs as the best entrepreneurs of 2011. Readers were then asked to vote for their favorite entry. Martijn Arets, whose project became first successfully completed crowdfunding project on Sybmid, mobilized the readership and…
India Turns to Crowdsourcing for Tackling Traffic Violations
The use of crowdsourcing and social networking sites to police street traffic is slowly gaining popularity in India, the latest of a few countries to undertake this practice. The traffic police of the nation’s cities, including Pune, Chennanai, and Delhi…
[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Crowdsourcing is Helping Conservationists to Save Endangered Species
Given crowdsourcing is based on crowd participation, it is unsurprising that the most successful crowdsourcing projects often involve popular causes or relate to subjects lots of people find fascinating. Based on this understanding, the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) new Instant…
Lucky Ant Helps Local Businesses Enlist the Help of Neighbors
Jonathan Moyal, the founder of Lucky Ant, officially opened his new company for business on January 2nd.. Lucky Ant provides New York City start-ups with opportunities to gain exposure and raise funds for projects. Every week, the website features one…
New Crowdfunding Initiative Saves One of the World’s Most Biodiverse Places
Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park is recognized by the scientific community as being one of the one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Covering an area of 9,823 km², the park holds several records for the number of animal species that…
StartersFund Launches Soon-to-Be Global Equity-Based Crowdfunding Platform
There is good news for technology entrepreneurs: StartersFund launched a Pan-European equity-based crowdfunding platform on the first day of 2012. Equity-based crowdfunding means that the amount of capital invested in a company is divided among the shareholders who own it….
Could Too Much Sharing Be Helping Criminals Crowdsource Information for Their Crimes?
Earlier this month, UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office issued a call for tech firms to take greater responsibility when sharing location data and when giving opportunity to its users to do so. According to the organization, geo-location tagging raises several security issues…
New Crowdsourced Apps Help Prevent Sexual Assault
Sexual assault remains a serious problem, especially amongst college-aged women. With statistics that indicate 1 in 5 college women report a case of sexual assault, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted a crowdsourcing challenge on the…
Crowdsourced Historians Boost Holocaust Research
A new partnership between genealogy website Ancestry.com and researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Museum is looking to make searching and recording the past easier for everyone. This unique crowdsourcing project, which was set up in response to the thousands of…
Innovative Food Waste Recycling Project Launches Crowdfunding Campaign at Kickstarter
Throw To Grow, a new food waste recycling program based in Honolulu, HI, has launched a Kickstarter campaign. The company hopes to raise $15,000 to fund its innovative research project as well as an educational program aimed at teaching kids…
GoodWorldCreations to Launch a Green Crowdfunding Platform in 2012
After the successful launch of HelpersUnite, a crowdfunding platform with a focus on arts and charity, GoodWorldCreations will soon be turning to environmental causes. In a partnership with the environmentalist and polar explorer Robert Swan and his organization 2041, the new service,…
Open Innovation Program to Develop Extreme Weather Early Warning System
The extreme weather conditions at the heart of many natural disasters that devastate the South American continent have prompted calls for a better way to deal with these catastrophes. Since the absence of an effective early warning system is a…
Crowdsourcing App That Maps Happiness
Today, as part of Microvolunteering Wednesday, we feature an opportunity found on Help From Home, a microvolunteering opportunity portal. If you’re curious to know what factors affect happiness, then consider participating in this crowdsourced citizen science project. Mappiness is an…
Carnegie Mellon Releases Android Version of Smartphone Transit App
Users of the Android mobile interface in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County will now be able to contribute to a crowdsourced information sharing project. Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has recently released its real-time bus schedules and seating information app, called Tiramasu,…
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