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World Bank Announces Its Crowdsourced Map Data Will Be Free for the Crowd
After activists raised questions about a deal the World Bank announced earlier this year with Google, the organization has announced that if it collects mapping data from everyday people, those data will be free and open to access: Through trial and error, we have learned that open and equitable access to maps is critical not only for crisis response but also for innovation and longer-term development. For this reason, the World Bank only supports citizen-mapping efforts that give users free access to the map data they create. While citizens are free to choose the projects and tools that best meet their goals, our guiding principle is simple: if the public helps to collect or create map data, the public should be able to access, use and re-use that data freely.
Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. The Game Developers Conference sees a lot of creativity and interesting ideas pass through the halls of the convention centre it’s hosted at. Production company iam8bit put together their own creative project that spawned some abstract and quirky game ideas. Using oversized fridge magnets — you know, the ones with words that you put together to make nonsensical sentences with — iam8bit looked to passersby to crowdsource some zany game titles and genres.
Crowdsourcing Invents Games With Donut Whales And Robot Pickles
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Waze (for iPhone) Review & Rating
Waze has proven that crowdsourced GPS navigation is viable—and it keeps getting better. At its core, Waze gives you voice-enabled GPS directions on your iOS or Android device. Best of all, it's free. It's still not perfect, but if you're willing to trade a little routing efficiency for features you can't find on other navigation apps, like real world travel times and up-to-the-minute, user-reported traffic jams, Waze is definitely worth checking out. It's a close second to Google Maps , our Editors' Choice for free GPS apps, mainly thanks to that app's superior voice prompts and overall stability. User Interface and Crowdsourcing For this review, I tested Waze 3.5.1 on a Verizon Wireless Apple iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.2.
People around the world have been empowered by social media to take action on the issues they care about This was made clear by the Arab Spring last year, the ongoing Occupy movement and, most recently, the Kony 2012 campaign. At the heart of the campaign is a 30 minute film created by Invisible Children, Inc., aimed at making indicted Ugandan war criminal, Joseph Kony, famous in order to have to him arrested for the horrific enslavement, abuse and killing of children in Africa over the course of several decades. These bottom-up social movements have all challenged traditional top-down government structures in their own right. In fact, some might argue the traditional top-down leadership model, once so fitting for governments around the world, has been flipped on its head.
Kony, government and crowdsourcing
Mark Harbottle on the internet and start-up success
Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features multi-award winning entrepreneur and self-confessed “start-up guy”, Mark Harbottle. Mark Harbottle was named Entrepreneur of the Year this week, an award this five-time entrepreneur deserves for the impressive contribution he’s made to the local start-up scene. The founder of the world’s number one crowdsourced graphic design site, 99designs , loves being involved in the starting phases of a business.
Expert Labs: Putting The 'Public' Into Public Policy Wasn't Easy
The closing down of an effort known as Expert Labs this month acted as a marker of sorts in the open government movement. Epitomizing the general ethos of the time, here was a group of Internet-famous hipster technologists and personalities who had decided to storm the barricades and focus their collective attention on helping the federal government to break out of the Beltway bubble to connect better with the public when making policy decisions. Why shouldn't the world have been excited about what kind of change they could potentially have brought about? TechPresident alumnus Nancy Scola wondered at the time in 2010 when Expert Labs was first getting going: "Can what we know in 2010 about the wisdom of crowds really improve policy making? It's an intriguing idea, but the devil is in the details." Two years and several reports later, we thought we'd try to look at how Expert Labs fared.
Crowdsourcing Cannes Lions
Drinks brand vitaminwater has joined forces with film crowdsourcing outfit Mofilm to launch the Glaceau vitaminwater Cannes Lions video contest. Creatives need to get their heads around those everyday occasions, and demonstrate how they could be made better. “Been to Cannes already?” asks Mofilm.
Researchers at the University of Southampton reckon that they can solve the US government sponsored crowdsourcing game, Tag Challenge ‘within the first hour of the competition’ if the viral effect of communicating via social media works as well as predicted. In order to win the Tag challenge, you need to have a team of social communicators located in five locations around the world who are prepared to share information in order to claim the prize. A crowdsourcing team is being assembled to solve the puzzle. It is called “CrowdScanner”, and anyone can join the group . The site is being built in collaboration with experts from University of Southampton and University of California San Diego. Dr.
Crowdscanner: Viral social media challenges can be solved 'within the hour'
Heinz Ketchup’s call for Facebook fans to share slogan ideas for its label shows that brands can boost engagement by prompting consumers to be creative. Heinz Ketchup recently asked consumers on its Facebook page to tell the brand what their Heinz Ketchup label would say if they were to create one. Directly prompting consumers to be creative, the post has received over 370 responses (at the time of writing), with consumers flocking to share their suggestions. WaveMetrix social media analysis shows that Heinz Ketchup’s post is successful in driving high levels of consumer engagement and positivity for the product and brand.