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Winner takes it all?
August 17, 2010… In theory it’s great. Say you want a new identity for your company. All you do is post a design brief on the website, and then sit back and watch the submissions roll in. At the end of the process you only pay for your favorite submission.
99designs has all the mechanisms you would expect to ensure chosen work is paid for, avoiding both copyright theft and exploitation of the community purely as a source of inspiration. Even so, there is much criticism of how it and similar sites …
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99designs, competition, competitive crowdsourcing, contest, creativity, crowdsourcing, CrowdSpring, design, microtask, MycroBurst, reDesignMe | 4 CommentsYour Country Needs You!
February 14, 2010… The potential is undoubtedly there.
But how fast these innovations can deliver a genuine participatory democracy remains to be seen. Voter apathy and general political disengagement are reasonably prominent in many western democracies. It will likely take some time for a genuine sea change in some places. As everyone who has bought exercise equipment from an infomercial knows – having the tools doesn’t necessarily guarantee they will be used.
Fight Join the Power …
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big brother, CCTV, crowdsourcing, democracy, obama, participatory government | 4 CommentsThe Future of Work: Paid to Play?
January 26, 2010… products that could make a real impact.
Game designers use context, art direction and consistent design to develop compelling games. It is these aspects which make them far more appealing than your average Excel spreadsheet. Of course that’s why millions of people choose to spend their “real life” playing them. So how can we use the fundamentals of game design in the workplace?
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
A game released over a decade ago provides a good example of how this …
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fun, game design, games, job, reCAPTCHA MMORPG, SEGA, task, Typing of the Dead, work | 5 CommentsWelcome to the Open Ministry
May 2, 2012Share After casually revolutionizing the worlds of design, data-processing and translation, the crowd is now getting to work on the business of government. Iceland is preparing to implement a crowdsourced constitution, and this March the Finnish Parliament passed the Citizens’ Initiative Act. The Act allows any citizen to present a law to Parliament, providing they can get the support of 50,000 citizens.
Spotting the opportunity for a …
Manufacturing success: how to use crowdsourcing to enhance innovation and product development
March 7, 2012… these seem to be a fear of change, uncertainty about intellectual property rights, and a lack of design sharing technologies. Luckily, each of these obstacles can be overcome. Here are three ways to bring crowdsourcing into mainstream manufacturing.
1. Start small and work your way up. A lot of manufacturing companies are uneasy about opening up their development processes to outside influences. To work around this mentality companies should start off using crowdsourcing for a small …
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