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Are the Golden Years history?
March 23, 2010… than they expected because the state cannot afford the cost of their pensions.
Age concern
An aging population is a problem that governments all over the world are faced with. In 1935, when the United States first introduced the pension, the life expectancy was 67 years. When Social Security was implemented, there were 16 workers for every Social Security recipient; today there are 3.3 workers, and it is estimated that by 2030 there will be only two.
And this is just the beginning: …
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aging population, Italy, retirement | 1 CommentGrandma knows best: experiments in distributed education
February 24, 2011… Grey Power
It’s a cute story, but there’s also a serious point here. Europe has an aging population: millions of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s with time and expertise to spare. As we blogged last year, this demographic has huge, untapped crowdsourcing potential. Hopefully, voluntary schemes like Prof. Mitra’s will be trendsetters – demonstrating the possibilities of distributed work to the older generation (also, shouldn’t there be a grandfather cloud too? Old men …
Crowded planet: desperately seeking sustainability
November 8, 2011… of famine, war and climate disaster (and some great info-graphics ). Of course, in Finland over-population is hardly a major problem (except for reindeer and right-wing politicians ). But we’re probably as guilty as any Western nation when it comes to over-consuming resources.
As well as rapidly reproducing, humans are fast becoming an “overwhelmingly urban species”. By 2050 there will be over 8 billion people living in cities. Can we find a way (other than by crowd funding a …
Paying the price for Google Maps?
October 31, 2011… Map Maker, which has been a huge success in Africa and India. In 2005 only 15% of the world’s population had online maps, thanks to the Google Map Maker crowd, it’s now over 30%.
If Google wants to charge people/ companies that profit from using Google Maps, fair enough. But charging not-for-profit crowdsourcing organizations to use maps where much of the data has itself been crowdsourced (for free) from people in the developing world… Call me a crazy idealist but that just …
Crowdsourcing: an ancient Finnish tradition?
June 13, 2011… A striking recent example is Bird Atlas, an online project to map Finland’s nesting bird population. Finland is a large country: 337,000 square kilometers in total. It would be impossible for a single team of researchers (however dedicated) to produce a complete map. Instead, in the best talkoot/ crowdsourcing-style, project organizers appealed to the country’s bird-watchers for help. Amateur ornithologists responded enthusiastically, sending in data and observations from all over …
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