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Microtasks: An Unlikely Legacy of Benjamin Franklin

Giovanna Mingarelli | Posted 05.11.2014 | Impact
Read More: Microaction, Microtasking, Crowdsourcing, F.W. Taylor, Self-Improvement, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Benjamin Franklin, World Economic Forum, Pybossa, Ifwerantheworld, Impact News
Giovanna Mingarelli

We have the opportunity and means to apply microtasking to enrich our lives, our cultures and build better societies. As it was in the case of Benjamin Franklin, success is ours: people just need the right leaders, tools and incentives to motivate them to act.

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Can You Use Facebook? You've Got a Job in Kathmandu on the New Cloud Factory

Kyle Knight | Posted 05.05.2013 | Business
Read More: Outsourcing, Tech, Information Technology, Nepal, Start-Up, Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing Technology, Nepal Facebook, Business News
Kyle Knight

Can you use Facebook? Then you can work for CloudFactory Ltd., a company located half a world away in Kathmandu that may soon find itself in the unlikely role of one of Nepal's biggest private employers.

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Four Reasons You Should Use Crowdsourcing

Ramon Nuez | Posted 06.23.2012 | Business
Read More: Crowdsourcing Technology, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Crowdsourcing, Business News
Ramon Nuez

How many times have you said it? How many times have you said -- "only if I had two more people," "only if I had a bigger budget," "only if I had mor...

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The Heartbeat of Bogotá: Engaging the Population of a City to Reinvent Itself for the Digital Age

Don Tapscott | Posted 03.24.2012 | World
Read More: Open Network Government, Government Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Open Government, Crowdsourcing, Small Government Technology, Crowdsource, Government Technology, Crowd Sourcing, Local Government, World News
Don Tapscott

Around the world our cities are in desperate need of rejuvenation and transformation. Elected officials are scrambling to equip their cities for the 21st century, talking about creating "open," "networked," and "smart" cities.

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Crowdsourcing Climate Tech: Where Is the Department of Energy?

Lewis Milford | Posted 12.19.2011 | Technology
Read More: Crowdsourcing Technology, Crowdsourcing Innovation, Department Defense Innovation, Department Defense Technology, Crowdsourcing Government Innovation, Crowd Sourcing Innovation, Department Energy Innovation, Department Energy Technology, Technology News
Lewis Milford

It is too bad that the Department of Energy, charged with developing our new energy future, can't even use today's most modern technology innovation strategies. Maybe some DOE officials need to take a cab to the Pentagon and learn a few things.

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How Crowdsourcing Can Help Clean Energy

Beth Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Power Grid, General Electric, Crowdsourcing, Promethean Power, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Venture Capital, Technology, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Solar Power, Small Business America, Securerf, Business News
Beth Comstock

Ideas spring from the gaps between the technology of today and the needs of tomorrow. In the global energy economy, we face a chasm between nascent id...

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Ten Minutes with James DeJulio, President and Co-Founder of Tongal

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Google, FinalCut Pro, Duke Basketball, Nine West, Crowdsourcing, Paramount Pictures, Madison Avenue, Hollywood, Facebook, Crowdsourcing-Technology, Social Media Marketing, Net Neutrality, Dean Martin, Buca Di Beppo, Social Media, Kiva, Youtube, Robert Evans, Flipcam, NCAA March Madness, FCC Net Neutrality, Tongal, Binaca, Technology News
Fabio Periera

It's official: Google is evil. As one of the leading dark forces in the current net neutrality debate, Google has partnered with other large media and...

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Librarians To Attempt To Outsmart Google

Ars Technica | Nate Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Crowdsourcing Technology, Crowdsourcing Librarians, Crowdsourced Search Engines, Crowdsourcing, Librarians, Reference Extract Project, Google, Business News

The Reference Extract project hopes to turn all of this credibility research into something practical. The team consists of professors like Lankes and...

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