A Matchmaking Service to Unite Scientists and Citizen Volunteers. 20 Cities Want Your Innovative Ideas. A gym that lets humans generate energy for a Spanish city; open data about obesity levels in the Netherlands; a smart bus network navigation system in Japan, and a wireless network to control street lights; monitor car parking spaces and more in San Francisco. These are just some of the solutions being asked for by cities around the world as part of the Living Labs Global Award.
Living Labs Global is a non-profit association which promotes new technologies and services in cities. In all, twenty cities have partnered with the organisation to identify innovative solutions to problems around tourism, transport, health and open government. The twenty cities are currently looking for ideas to be submitted, with winning solutions set to be announced in May.
Previous winners of the competition have included a smart real-time peer-to-peer parking system in Stockholm and an open data citizen participation platform in San Francisco. ➤ Living Labs Global Award 2012. How To Organize A Social Media Day Meetup. Mashable‘s third annual Social Media Day is on Saturday, June 30, 2012! Social Media is quickly changing our world by bringing people closer together. So, in true Mashable style, we celebrate it! In previous years, we have had incredible Social Media Day Meetups created by event organizers around the globe. To keep that tradition alive, we invite you to once again bring your fellow social media enthusiasts together in person by hosting a Social Media Day Meetup in your area. Like any event, Social Media Day Meetups require planning. Step by Step Because we use the Meetup Everywhere platform, there is already a Social Media Day event set up for the over 1,500+ Mashable Meetup Everywhere communities. Here's how to find and edit your local Meetup: 1.
Find a Meetup Community Near You Browse through this list to find a Meetup near you! Get The Word Out Make sure your community knows about your Mashable Social Media Day Meetup! Here are a few ideas to get you started promoting: 1. Inspiration Photos: Amazon Streamlines Mechanical Turk With Automatic Categorization App. The idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk is pretty simple - break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply.
Part of the challenge of that is making it easy for requesters to create the bites that workers are chewing on. The new categorization app from Amazon removes some of the hurdles of creating HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that ask workers to pick the best category for items. The result could make the crowdsource coding marketplace even more usable and popular. Creating a request for Mechanical Turk isn't overly difficult, but it takes a bit of time editing HTML and answering a lot of questions for which first-time users don't have a lot of context - for example, deciding the qualifications for workers, or whether they need to be "masters" to take on a task.
Right now, Amazon is providing an app only for categorization questions. Boosting MT Revenues Better Requests One problem? Developer Workshop: Crowdstory. Developer Workshop is a series of profiles exploring the current state of the mobile marketplace from the point of view of the software developers mapping out its future. Each profile focuses on a developer with a compelling story to tell, and offers their perspective on what the industry's doing right, what it's doing wrong and how to make it better. Check out our previous workshops on Shazam, InfoMedia, Viigo, Meet Now Live, Shortcovers, Pint Sized Mobile, Geodelic, Spark of Blue Software, Tarver Games, People Operating Technology, Booyah, Bolt Creative, Thwapr, Monkeyland Industries, Rocket Racing League, Vlingo, Advanced Mobile Protection, PapayaMobile, Taptu, GameHouse, Avatron and aisle411.
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They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how. Why crowdsource? If it’s ideas you're looking for, collaborative thinking can provide solutions faster and with input from people with diverse backgrounds, thus strengthening the project. Below, we'll look at some of the best crowdsourcing platforms on the web, along with successful campaigns funded on each one. 1. What: FundraisingWhy: Effective and entertainingWho: Use it if you are a non-profit or individual supporting a non-profit Yes, if you are reading this article now you have probably already heard about Crowdrise, but that’s because it works, and is easy to use. 2. What: Fundraising for projectsWhy: Builds community and provides a reward structureWho: Use it for any creative project Both platforms are project-based fundraising sites, but they differ slightly.