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Crowdfunding gets big boost in Congress
Thursday, November 10, 2011 A bill that would let entrepreneurs sell ownership stakes in their companies through crowdfunding websites and other online social networks has been overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House. Earlier this month, members of the House voted 407-17 in favor of HR 2930, a bill with the stated goal of making it easier for entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses to get access to early-stage capital. Two of those "aye" votes came from New Hampshire Republican Reps.
Over the years, I’ve known many entrepreneurs whose good ideas, often small ones, could never get funded. The venture capital system and angel investors are right for some kinds of new businesses, but what about start-up financing for the rest of us? Crowd Funding may be an answer, at least if the US Senate comes on board. Popular with arts and other projects, where “investors” donate to projects listed on Kickstarter.com and other sites, new legislation would make it easier for businesses to be crowd funded by selling stock to small investors.
Crowd Funding An Option For Start-Ups? - Forbes
+ Ben Watson That's the sad part and why all the noise on gamification is so frustrating. Many people working in game design seem to feel that way and it is a shame because so many of the very people with the talent and skills to apply the principle to changing the world for the better are fighting the concept as if it is snake oil. I got so excited at the possibilities of gamification when I first heard + Jane McGonigal speak at TED. I immediately saw the opportunity she was talking about, to take the essence of games and turn it on to solving huge problems in the world. I'd already used those principles to some success in my own life for years to give me extra motivation to stick to activities I knew were good for me but that I wasn't that enthusiastic about.
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The Syrian War Crowdsourcing Experiment | Fast Company
Amnesty International USA and the Standby Task Force have launched an ambitious campaign to crowdsource analysis of Syrian satellite imagery for military movements, demonstrations, and checkpoints. So far, volunteers have tagged more than 2,000 potential troublespots. Is DIY intelligence analysis the future of human rights work? Think of it as a DIY intelligence agency: An ambitious collaborative project is inviting volunteers to help crowdsource human rights intelligence from the Syrian rebellion.
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What is frogMob? | frogMob
An experimental method of guerilla research developed by global innovation firm frog design, frogMob is based on the idea that anyone can channel their inner design researcher by looking for inspiration from everyday life. Tapping into frog’s global networks and the broader community, frogMob encourages people from all over the world to submit their photos and stories to help us take a quick pulse on emerging trends that can inform our design process. Should you submit your photos to frogMob, we respect your privacy.
I last updated my piece on A Brief History of Crisis Mapping some two years ago, well before the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping was held ( ICCM 2009 ). So a brief update on the past 24 months may be in order, especially for a field that continues to grow so rapidly. When I Googled the term “crisis mapping” in September 2009, I got 8,680 hits.
What is Crisis Mapping? An Update on the Field and Looking Ahead | iRevolution
OK, so it’s not exactly Call of Duty: Somali Coast . Your avatar won’t get its SEAL Team Six on and shoot pirates in the head. But the Navy still wants you — yes, you, gamer — to join in its online gaming effort to figure out what to do about the scourge of piracy. Starting on Monday, the Navy will host one of the least likely online games ever: MMOWGLI, its Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet, something it’s been building since 2009 . In a literal sense, the game is about counterpiracy, as the game encourages players to offer their best suggestions for clearing the seas of the resurgent maritime scourge. But the real point of MMOWGLI — pronounced like the Jungle Book protagonist — is a social experiment.
Navy Crowdsources Pirate Fight To Online Gamers | Danger Room | Wired.com
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Introduction by the translator: The following is an unofficial English translation of the original article in Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun a Japanese newspaper about industrial matters. The Nikkei group also publishes the Nihon Kezai Shimbun which is the major financial newspaper of Japan. Please note that the journalist solely used the term “Senryokei” to describe radiation measurement equipment (which includes geiger counters, but is a wider, more general term). There is no mention in the article about Safecast’s bGeigie system (of which the geiger counter “survey meter” is only a part of the total) continuously recording sets of GPS-coordinates and radiation levels that gets uploaded to the internet “as-is” under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 license for everyone to observe, download, and use freely without any limitations. Safecast Survey Meter – Technology and Funds from Outside Sources
A resource manual for those who loathe tyrants… a disaster for the repressive imperialistic nations:the open source jihad is America's worst nightmare. Al Qaeda's stated goal for Inspire. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula put out a magazine this summer called Inspire.
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Emergent organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term emergent organizations (alternatively emergent organisations ) first appeared in the late 1990s and was the topic of the Seventh Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference at University of Ghent , Belgium in May, 1999. An emergent organization differs from a traditional organization in that its existence spontaneously emerges from and exists in a complex dynamic environment or market place , rather than being a construct or copy of something that already exists. Emergent organizations and their dynamics pose interesting questions; for example, how does such an organization achieve closure and stability? Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization , where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.Spontaneous order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spontaneous order, also known as " self-organization ", is the spontaneous emergence of order out of seeming chaos. It is a process found in physical, biological, and social networks, as well as economics, though the term "self-organization" is more often used for physical and biological processes, while "spontaneous order" is typically used to describe the emergence of various kinds of social orders from a combination of self-interested individuals who are not intentionally trying to create order through planning . The evolution of life on Earth, language , crystal structure , the Internet and a free market economy have all been proposed as examples of systems which evolved through spontaneous order. [ 1 ] Naturalists often point to the inherent "watch-like" precision of uncultivated ecosystems and to the universe itself as ultimate examples of this phenomenon. [ citation needed ]Ushahidi founders