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After the quake: crowdsourcing Japan
March 28, 2011… satisfyingly democratic about the way Crowdrise gives every fundraiser equal space. So the American Red Cross is listed next to sponsored fun runs and lemonade stands. Together, crowd efforts have raised over $200,000 so far.
As the Japanese proverb (and this could be a motto for crowdsourcing in general) goes: “Virtue is not knowing but doing”.
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American Red Cross, Bruce Willis, crowd, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, earthquake, Geiger counter, iPhone, Japan, United States, Ushahidi | 1 CommentA Ray of Sunshine
February 6, 2010… to help directly. NGOs like Oxfam, the Clinton Foundation, Plan International, and American Red Cross are this minute benefiting from Ushahidi data in the field in Haiti.
At a relative’s work last week, they organized a bake sale – which is a somewhat more traditional way to help those in need in Haiti (and from which I again benefit indirectly). This is all well and good and hopefully when the money in the cookie jar eventually finds its way to the right pockets it …
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American Red Cross, earthquake, Haiti, Oxfam, Plan International, the Clinton Foundation, Ushahidi | 4 CommentsRiot in a crowded street
November 25, 2010… this). Take Foursquare itself: in November, as well as the rioters, the site was used by the American Red Cross to encourage blood donation and Feeding America to raise awareness about hunger relief over Thanksgiving. But still, it’s both inevitable and disturbing that, once you release powerful, mass management, crowdsourcing tools like Groundcrew and Foursquare, somebody, somewhere’s going to use them to mastermind riots and mobilize revolts. Of course, protest isn’t …
crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, foursquare, groundcrew, music, riot, san francisco, steve dahl, Twitter | 2 CommentsCrowdsourcing democracy: was the Arab Spring over-hyped?
October 26, 2011… to get Arab support. An election monitoring platform – developed for Egypt at the request of the American University in Cairo – had to be completely re-written by local project assistant Michael Ayoub. “The programmers from Stanford wanted to use a new programming language for writing the site. They wanted to learn this programming language, but it wasn’t very useful over here” says Ayoub. He tried to communicate this with the Stanford developers, but felt that his needs were …
Arab Spring, Cairo, Coptic Christian, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, crowd, crowdsourcing, Egypt, microwork, Morocco, Tahrir Square, The Guardian | Leave a commentSeptember 27, 2011
… and the only people who still believe that such a transformation is possible are boy wizards and American Idol contestants.
That is, until now.
From boring tasks to gaming gold
At Microtask we practice alchemy by turning the menial tasks that everyone hates into fun, online games.
Our magic formula is the Microtask Platform and clever game design. The platform breaks work into microtasks and distributes them via online games for volunteers to complete. People volunteer because it …
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