Neighborland. Here comes the Neighborland: Creating communities by crowdsourcing | opensource.com | Kurat. Image by opensource.com Neighborland is a new ideation crowdsourcing startup that gives citizens a “fun and easy way for residents to suggest new businesses and services that they want in their neighborhood.” Founded by Candy Chang, Tee Parham and Dan Parham, and funded by the Tulane Social Entrepreneurship program with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, it launched in alpha mode this June in New Orleans. Co-founder Dan Parham shares his thoughts on the new venture. What’s the story behind starting Neighborland? Neighborland started as an off-line art project called ‘I Wish This Was‘ from one of our founders, Candy Chang. In January, we applied for some grants, and Candy received an Urban Innovation Challenge Fellowship from Tulane University in February for Neighborland.
We’ve been working on the platform this spring with our co-founder and Chief Engineer, Tee Parham. How is it different from other crowdsourcing tools? We are 100% focused on making things happen. Civic Commons | Sharing Technology for the Public Good. About | Open311. Frankfurt Gestalten | Bürger machen Stadt. New Urban Mechanics. Report non-emergency issues, receive alerts in your neighborhood.