Government crowdsourcing news
You Can Crowdfund a Politician but you Can’t Crowdfund an Entrepreneur?
On Tuesday January 24, 2012 President Obama delivered the State of the Union Address. He highlighted the challenges the economy faces and the direction in which we need to take the country. One of the nation’s biggest challenges he highlighted…
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…
EarlyShares Urges Congress to Allow Crowdfunding in the U.S.
Using evidence from countries where crowdsourcing has taken hold, such as the UK, EarlyShares is pushing to get full legal backing for its new business model, pointing out that crowdfunding leads to greater and more widespread innovation and success in…
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…
[Crowd Leader: Shelley Kuipers] Funding the Crowd
It’s the beginning of a new year, and there was so much interesting and encouraging evolution in the crowdsourcing space in 2011 that I thought I’d like to break it down a bit and, each month, examine a different trend….
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…
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…
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…
U.S. Government’s Open Initiatives Found to be Groundbreaking
All of the White House’s recent forays into the world of crowdsourcing for its initiatives have been assessed against different paradigms of “collective intelligence”. Researchers at Ryerson University in Toronto have used the Genome for Collective Intelligence to measure 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…
Latest White House Crowdsource Challenge Aims to Streamline the Approval of Patents
The White House has yet again challenged the public in an effort to streamline government services and promote public innovation. Much like recent efforts to improve government websites, the crowd has been called in again– this time to develop an…
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…
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…
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…
[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] The Crowdfunding Act: Startup Saviour or Pure Speculation?
Even to someone living 7000km away from Washington D.C, it’s clear that American politicians love a good fight. Democrats and Republicans famously disagree about everything from healthcare to the debt crisis to whether pizza is a vegetable. But, it turns…
Acabiz, the Academia to Business Knowledge Platform, reaches 1.6k Academic Experts
Acabiz, the Milan-based crowdsourcing company, which connects academic experts and companies looking for niche knowledge & know-how, has now reached 1.6k academic experts. Acabiz’s academic experts really come from every corner of the world; at the moment though, the UK…
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…
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