Posts Tagged ‘Crowd Sourcing’
Crowd Funding Public Works: A New York City Swimming Pool
Three guys are using Kickstarter to crowd fund a public works program: A public swimming pool that uses filtered river water. They’ve raised more than $25,000 so far.
Read MoreA Decade Of Wikipedia
The State of Wikipedia not only explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia, but it’s also a celebration of its 10th anniversary. With more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages, Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most visited and relied upon sites on the web today.
Read MoreTim Berners-Lee On The Next Evolution Of The Web: Linked Data
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Read MoreFool Proof Voting – The Elegant High/Low Tech Solution
There is a remarkably elegant and seemingly foolproof system that would address all off the above with a combination of Web technology and paper ballots.
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Disease Symptoms
Is there a way to apply crowdsourcing to the symptoms of diseases in order to more efficiently advance medical science?
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