Technology crowdsourcing news
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 FundaGeek Offers Technology and Science Projects Lease of Funding Life
The recession has made the funding of projects and startups through traditional investment methods very difficult. Innovation in technology and science in particular has difficulties clearing this hurdle, made more arduous with governments considering budget cuts into research projects as…
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…
Crowd Filled Wikipedia’s Void During Blackout
Millions experienced a shock when they signed online on January 18th to find that the largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, had been shut down for the day. However, the act of crowdsourcing proved tactful when several news outlets, including the Washington…
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…
Crowdcube Successfully Crowdfunds Investment Capital
At a time when the economic crisis makes it increasingly difficult for businesses to grow or even survive, a UK crowdfunding platform has defied the odds. Crowdcube, which allows people to invest in new and expanding business in return for…
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…
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…
US Based Rival, Brandstack.com has been Taken Over by DesignCrowd
For an undisclosed price, DesignCrowd has purchased Brandstack services, who are best known for their ability to generate ready-made logos through crowdsourcing. The brand plans to reinvent Brandstack by launching BrandCrowd.com. According to the CEO of DesignCrowd, Alec Lynch, the new…
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…
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…
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…
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…
McDonalds Crowdsources Bite-Sized Videos for Bite-Sized Product
McDonald’s has turned to crowdsourcing for the release of their latest menu item: Chicken McBites. The release of this “cupholder cuisine” item in January 2012 will be accompanied by ten chosen crowdsourced mini films. The community over at Tongal will…
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…
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