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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 …
Android, apple, crowd, crowdsourcing, Disability, distributed work, iPhone, microtask, microwork, research, Speech recognition, United States | 2 CommentsFor a fistful of dollars: the weird and wonderful world of Fiverr
June 6, 2011… straightforward: send in a portrait for a Photoshop makeover (guaranteed to reverse all 7 signs of aging); get some much-needed Likes for a barren Facebook page about hamsters. Other users are a bit more creative (though I do worry a little about this user’s diet).
Here at Microtask we’re always eager to give the crowd a chance. Armed with $50, we decided to find out exactly what money can buy. Ready?
Gangsta-tasks
Every epic venture must have an epic sound track. Fiverr was …
After the quake: crowdsourcing Japan
March 28, 2011… estimate that over 500,000 people are now homeless or displaced (that’s equivalent to the whole population of Helsinki). As governments across the world pledge support, crowd funders have also stepped up.
Crowdrise is a non-profit platform that lists individual fundraising projects (like a charitable version of Kickstarter). Organizations register, describe their cause and set a target for crowd funded donations. The HopeforJapan section of the site has over 60 projects listed. …
Africa online 2011: The mobile continent
February 28, 2011… people have a mobile phone than a bank account. In technologically advanced Kenya, over 50% of the population now owns a mobile. A friend of mine who used to live in Mali told me that many young people there would rather go hungry than go without SMS.
In the West, all the money and media attention goes to smartphones – see the hyperactive press coverage of Nokia’s recent deal with Microsoft. However, while citizens of London and New York are obsessed with the latest iPhone, in Nairobi …
Crowdsource a country clean? Yes we can.
February 14, 2011… old, Let’s do it! has achieved some remarkable things. In 2008, it mobilized 3% of Estonia’s population to clean up 10,000 tons of litter. For free. In one day.
Let’s do it again?
Ahti Heinla, one of the former funders of Skype and now programmer at Let’s do it!, says: “The same action day has been repeated, not only in Estonia, but in 9 countries – Slovenia, Portugal, Lithuania and others – with 1.3 million volunteers in total. Everywhere, we have been able to get most …
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