Science crowdsourcing news
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…
January 30th Daily Crowdsource New Year Giveaway
Daily Crowdsource is pleased to announce the publication of a complete Industry Report on Microtasking for Quarter 3 of 2011. Though the full report is available for purchase, we’re giving away a free preview to everyone who fills out this…
Use of Crowdsourcing in Medical Field Allows for More Efficient Health Care
As political pundits weave their way through state after state, a hot button issue will continue to find an effective way to manage the country’s increasingly discombobulated (and expensive) health care system. One solution? Crowdsourcing. In a recent article, author…
BetterLesson: Crowdsourcing For a Better Education
Alex Grodd, a former teacher in charter schools and Teach for America, is applying the crowdsourcing model to improve education. In 2009 he created and launched BetterLesson, an online platform designed with teachers in mind. BetterLesson allows teachers in the…
The Haas School is Involved in a Million Dollar Open Innovation Challenge
The Million Dollar Open Innovation Challenge is sponsored by Zazzle, who offers customers an online web platform where they can create their own merchandise by uploading images. Only 25 students will be invited by the Haas-Berkeley’s School’s Center for Open…
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…
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,…
The Health Care Innovation Challenge Enters the Next Phase
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently challenged all comers to devise the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people with the most pressing health care needs. The innovations must…
[Crowd Leader: Neil Perry] A Look at the Promise of Macrotasking
Like many who read Daily Crowdsource, my company had a presence at the recent CrowdConf event in San Francisco. My longtime colleague, Mark Schoneveld, who serves as Poptent’s Director of Community, came back with some interesting takeaways that I feel were…
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…
DARPA’s Shredder Challenge Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) recently challenged the crowd to find new ways of reconstructing shredded documents. The Shredder Challenge asked contestants to download five variously shredded documents, find new and faster solutions to reconstruct them, and present…
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,…
TechMoola: Crowdfunding for Technological Innovation
A new startup, called TechMoola, has just been launched to help investors fund their projects. A technology focused crowdfunding platform, TechMoola allows the community to fund projects in eight different categories: Energy, Electronics, Medical, Communications, WebTech, Computer Hardware, Software and…
Help Wanted: Whales Need Translators
This week for Microvolunteering Wednesday you can help Scientific American and Zooniverse with their newly launched crowdsourcing project. They are looking for people to decode new phrases, dialects and meaning of killer and pilot whale songs. A staggering 15,000 whale…
Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria
A crowdsourcing initiative to find a cure for drug-resistant malaria has been unveiled by Scripps Research Institute and IBM. The project, to be partly funded by money won from the Jeopardy! game show by IBM’s Watson computing system, has invited…
uTest Closes one of the Largest Financing Rounds to Increase Development and Expansion
Today uTest closed a $17 million Series D financing round bringing their total funding to more than $37 million. The additional capital will be used to launch developer tools, open regional offices, and scale faster through M&A opportunities and expert recruiting….
Sony’s FutureScapes Project Asks the Crowd to Look 14 Years Into The Future
What will the world be like in 2025 and how will technology help shape the future? Could technology make sustainable lifestyles easier? What are the challenges and opportunities that life might hold in 2025? These are the questions that the…
Crowdsourcing Emotional Responses
Today, as part of Microvolunteering Wednesday, we feature an opportunity found on Help From Home, a microvolunteering opportunity portal. If you have a penchant for watching people being subjected to electrical stimulation, then have a look at today’s opportunity! Darwin’s…
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