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Welcome to the Open Ministry
May 2, 2012… can get the support of 50,000 citizens.
Spotting the opportunity for a groundbreaking piece of online activism, Finnish entrepreneur Joonas Pekkanen assembled a team of volunteers, including web-development wizard Aleksi Rossi, and created the Avoin Ministeriö, or Open Ministry. The site allows Finns to submit proposals for legislation, which are then debated and refined by the site’s membership. We sat down with Joonas and Aleksi to discuss the possibilities for crowdsourced …
Power from the people: crowdsourcing the constitution
April 18, 2012… Barack Obama set up the We The People site, which gives citizens the chance to post petitions online. If a petition gets 25,000 signatures in 30 days, the White House must issue a response. However, critics have pointed out that no matter how much support an issue gets, the most voters can expect is a courteous reply from the President. It offers no direct influence on policy.
No, the friendly kind of CIA
Meanwhile (and more importantly) in Finland, the Citizens’ Initiative Act has …
Keep Watching the Iron Skies!
April 4, 2012… than say a drama or a thriller?
I think it helps because sci-fi fans tend to be more active online. This makes it easier to reach your audience and interact with them. I think other genres can be crowdsourced effectively if you can convince the audience that your project is special and worth their time.
You also created a website for crowdsourcing films called Wreckamovie. Do you have any plans to implement an algorithmic distribution system on the site?
At this point we don’t …
Kony 2012: the crowd to the rescue?
March 28, 2012… by over 10,000 per month. Though this only represents just over 1% of the population, Uganda’s online community presents an incredible opportunity for charities to engage with the issues.
A more inclusive campaign may have avoided some of the controversy surrounding the video, which has been accused of ignoring African perspectives and advocating a US intervention which has already been implemented.
Let the crowd get to work
This single minded focus and pre-determined goal is …
Could crowd-driven think tanks be weapons of mass instruction?
March 14, 2012… Tower by inviting the crowd to contribute to its research efforts. Newthinktank aims to create an online forum where public service employees and users can come together to share their experiences, orchestrate research and generate policy ideas. The project is still in its infancy, but could be a fascinating experiment into the possibility of crowdsourced policymaking.
Shooting for the moon
Google has also introduced its high-profile Solve For X project, which aims to use imagination, …
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