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From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012… economy and share in its rewards. This is changing, however, and an initiative lead by the World Bank’s infoDev program is helping to shape the change.
As the digital economy grows, it increasingly gives rise to work that is “born digital” – that is, new work that arises out of the possibilities and needs of the digital world. This phenomenon is distinct from how conventional jobs are increasingly digitized in the sense of making heavy use of information and communication …
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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… down to convenience and reliability. If P2P lending and borrowing is more economic than using a bank, and becomes as easy as bidding on eBay, why wouldn’t it catch on? With Google and Facebook already tinkering about with transaction services and even their own currencies, the stage is set for the shift in thinking that may enable this change. And we know that big things can happen when people tap the power of the crowd.
Of course, if it all collapses, we can always fall back on a …
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Bank, crowd, crowdsourcing, eBay, Facebook, Funding Circle, Loan, microtask, microwork, Person-to-person lending, RateSetter | Leave a commentA penny for your thoughts: Why crowdfunding is taking off
September 2, 2010… such causes is almost annoyingly easy (now there are no excuses not to give). In a similar vein, Pledge Bank enables people to make pledges, and challenge others to do so as well. Others provide great opportunities for longer term giving, such as Give.fm which relies on clever use of micropayment technology.
Finally, of course, there are the more general crowdfunding providers, such as Kapipal, ChipIn, Fundable, Kick Starter and Rocket Hub. Each has successfully helped scores …
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AKA music, artistshare, catwalkgenius, ChipIn, cinemashares, crowdcube, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, distributed work, First Giving, Fundable, Give.fm, gofundme, greedyorneedy, HaveMoney Will Vlog, indiegogo, Just Giving, kapipal, Kick Starter, laraghfinance, Pledge Bank, projectfranchise, Rocket Hub, sellaband, The Cosmonaut, trampoline systems | 2 CommentsCrime-sourcing: the dark side of the crowd
October 20, 2011Share What do you do if your bank account gets hacked? Option 1: cancel your credit cards, have a couple of drinks and promise to stop opening emails from long lost cousins based in Nigeria. Option 2: take it personally, put on some dark sunglasses and go after the hackers.
Misha Glenny chose option 2, and then spent over two years infiltrating the murky world of cyber-crime. He uncovered a fast-growing, global industry. …
Down on MyFarm: gamification goes rural
May 26, 2011… actually has more in common with green gamification projects like Practically Green and Recycle Bank.
There are, however, a few key differences that make MyFarm interesting. Practically Green, Recycle Bank and numerous other projects all use game mechanics primarily to alter/improve individual user behavior. The focus is on rewarding “good” personal actions: recycle more, drive less, run more. In contrast MyFarm is all about users making collective decisions which have a direct …
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