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May 2, 2012… 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 groundbreaking piece of online activism, Finnish entrepreneur Joonas Pekkanen assembled a team of …
Cracking the code: The crowd vs the virus
April 25, 2012… corners of international relations. In a world filled with mysterious super-viruses and shadowy government hacking teams, it’s nice to know the crowd’s got your back.
crowdsourcing, Duqu, Iran, Israel, Kaspersky Lab, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, microtask, microwork, Reddit, Soumenkov, Stuxnet | 1 CommentCould crowd-driven think tanks be weapons of mass instruction?
March 14, 2012… but this kind of crowdsourced policymaking may offer a glimpse of some exciting new forms of government. Google’s idea of bringing such disparate viewpoints together to work towards a common goal in some ways is at the heart of the crowdsourcing movement. Hopefully this model will inspire similar ventures around the world.
crowd, crowdsourcing, Eric Schmidt, google, microtask, microwork, Neal Stephenson, San Martin California, Sergey Brin, TED, Think tank, youtube | Leave a commentFrom millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012… challenge conducted by infoDev and IdeasProject, with funding and support from UKaid and the Government of Finland. The aim of the challenge is to identify problems and needs that could be addressed by tapping into microworkers who use mobile phones – enabling the bottom of the economic pyramid to access the digital economy, and enabling the rest of the world to benefit from their intelligence.
Challenge participants are asked to come up with ideas for mobile phone applications that …
Better shred than read: DARPA uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents
January 12, 2012… of shredded MapQuest directions to the W.M.Ds) and also uncover potential vulnerabilities in U.S. Government document disposal practices. Conspiracy theorists will surely claim it’s only a matter of time before the software is turned on us ordinary decent folk with nothing to hide (except maybe some irregular tax returns).
Should we throw out our shredders then? Well there is no news of a slump in shredder sales. The thing is, even if the software was cheap and freely available someone …
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