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From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012Share Every country in the world has probably benefited in some way from the unprecedented access to knowledge and services brought about by the digital revolution. But producing the knowledge banks and services has so far been a predominately rich-country business. The world’s poorest countries have generally not been able to participate in the production side of the digital …
Bank, crowd, crowdsourcing, eBay, Facebook, Funding Circle, Loan, microtask, microwork, Person-to-person lending, RateSetter | Leave a commentBanking on one another: Can the crowd save itself from the banks?
January 26, 2012 Share First they lend too much, cause a financial meltdown and need bailing out. Now they don’t lend enough (unless share-options and fat bonuses count as lending). As any former Wall St inhabitant, election-year politician or self-respecting Hollywood celebrity will tell you: banks are pure evil.
Personally, I quite like the banking system as a whole. Swiping a little …
Food52: a recipe for crowdsourcing success?
January 23, 2012 Share Take the following ingredients:
. Two award-winning cookery writers.
. One eager food-loving crowd.
. A sprinkling of game mechanics.
Mix them all together and what do get? Answer: Food52 . Founded in 2009 by New York Times journalists Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, the site is described as a “social hub for people who love to cook” . As well as debating …
Confidence tricks: can crowdsourcing keep our feet on the ground?
January 18, 2012 Share Charles Darwin once wrote that “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Despite how far society has progressed since this was written, it seems as relevant now as it ever was. Whether it’s refusing to stop and ask for directions because we’re sure we know the right way (only to find ourselves lost in the wilderness ), or setting the …
Better shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012Share As if things weren’t already hard enough for them, crooked bankers , deposed dictators and international super villains have one more thing to worry about. Having spent their last hours of freedom shredding incriminating evidence into neat strips, they might have thought they could get away with their misdeeds. It turns out however that those shredded documents …
crowd, crowdsourcing, DARPA, documents, microtask, microwork, paper | Leave a comment← Older posts
