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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…
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…
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…
The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act Passes
The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, otherwise known as the H.R.2930, was passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month. While the bill in its current form is not out of the legislative woods yet, this is a significant…
Crowdfunding Bills For Closely-Held Firms Receive House Panel Backing
A raft of measures aimed at loosening Securities and Exchange Commission rules for closely-held firms has received a U.S. House panel backing. The bills chiefly seek to re-adjust the funding cap for closely-held firms, as well as remove other negative…
GSA Expands InnoCentive’s Crowdsourcing Reach
InnoCentive, the solutions provider that has not only a multi-channel open innovation platform, but one that is also able to provide professional challenge development services, has been appointed to General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 541 4G, Challenges and Competition Services. With…
Government Leverages the Power of the Crowd
A top quality group of college students from around the nation will join the US State Department this fall. These students, known as “e-interns,” will be working from coffee shops, the college library, and even their dorm rooms, on tasks…
DARPA Democratizes Innovation with Open Design Competition
The US Department of Defense agency, DARPA, has created a broad participation competition to find the best design for a new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) model. The competition is currently under way, and until October 19 anyone was able to…
Occupy Wall Street Crowdfunds New Campaign Ad
Occupy Wall Street is about to broadcast its very own advertising campaign. With the help of crowdfunding team Loudsauce, OCW’s 30 second commercial is set to hit national television very soon. Loudsauce is the brainchild of Colin Mutchler and Christie…
President Obama Unveils NASA’s International Space Apps Competition
President Barack Obama has officially unveiled NASA’s International Space Apps Competition. The challenge is aimed at sustaining the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative and will conclude with a two-day event next year. The challenge is expected to offer the government…
Texas Senate Turns to Crowdsourcing to Make Legislative Processes More Inclusive
The Texas Senate is turning to crowdsourcing to open up the legislative process and make it more inclusive. A recent Gallup Poll indicates that congressional job approval for September stood high at 15 percent, a clear indication of America’s continuing…
Millions unemployed, Infrastructure falling apart, what is wrong with this picture?
The American Dream Movement wants congress to pass legislation that will allow job creation through the rebuilding of roads, schools, bridges. They have created a website where people can send in pictures of infrastructure in disrepair needing urgent attention. Every…
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