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Crowd Sourcing the Effect of Congestion Charges in the North East (Manchester University / BBC)

BBC Report – If the congestion charge comes in, what would you do? Interactive Map, University of Manchester. www.bbc.co.uk/nwt

What is a BitCity? From Travel Surveys to Crowd Sourcing

9:00AM – 6:00PM WOOD AUDITORIUM, AVERY HALL BitCity 2011: Transportation, Data, and Technology in Cities The Sigurd Grava Symposium on Infrastructure 9am Opening Remarks Elliot Sclar, Columbia University GSAPP and SIPA 9:30am Keynote Address Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation 10:45am-12:15pm “Start-Up” Transportation Planning: Entrepreneurial Approaches to Transport Problems Candace Brakewood & Michael Frumin Engineering Systems Division, MIT; MTA Bus Customer Information Systems Di-Ann Eisnor, Waze Rachel Sterne, New York City Media moderated by Benjamin de la Pea, Rockefeller Foundation 1:15-2:45pm From Travel Surveys to Crowd Sourcing: New Forms of Data in Transportation Planning Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London David Levinson, NeXus: Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group, University of Minnesota Mitchell Moss, Rudin Center for Transportation, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service moderated by David King, Columbia University GSAPP 3-4:30pm Private Data, Public Good: Issues of Copyright, Contract, and Content Matthew Daus, University Transportation Research Center, City College of New York Francisca Rojas, Transparency Policy Project; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Bibiana McHugh, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) moderated by Kenneth Crews, Columbia Law School; Munich
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Latest Crowd Sourcing News

Crowdsourcing Innovation: How To Make Sure You Spot The Best Ideas
Brands seeking the wisdom of crowds often look for that one-in-a-million, "original" idea. They might be missing an important insight hiding in plain sight. The collective is a powerful thing. Crowdsourcing competitions can draw huge results, …
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Crowdsortium Welcomes Interim Board of Directors
The first crowdsourcing industry group, Crowdsortium, takes next step in guiding the industry by announcing leaders as its interim board of directors. Boulder, Colo. (PRWEB) April 05, 2012 Crowdsortium, the first crowdsourcing industry group, …
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Crowdsourcing Start-Up Spotlight: MentorMob
Curated knowledge as a product of crowdsourcing has proven itself in the past (& Wikipedia may still be crowdsourcing's most powerful example), but does it live up to its reputation in the form of playlists? What do you think?
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Shide Crowd Funding: UPDATE n.1

for more info go to: www.indiegogo.com About the project Hi guys! we are Shide and we’re an indipendent italian rock band! Shide was born in 2001 and from that the line up is changed so many times…as the music genre! The present video is to ask you for something that´s vital to us! We began work on our first release album in August 2009. We´ve worked hard these past two years perfecting the sound to achieve today´s result. There are some samples we´ve embedded for you to listen just for this campaign. We’re finally ready to complete the project, but are in need of procuring additional funding to make it happen. We’ve been working in some great studio in Conversano, BA Italy with top gear, engineers and with the Michael C. Ross consulence (LA engineer producer of world famous artists like Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Carlton and many other). Our album will feature anywhere between 11 and 13 tracks (will be also two cover) of our best songs. We´ve also produced our first video that proved to be a massive amount of work we´re very proud of today. For this we must thank the guys from Basix Communication and all of our friends that gave us an hand. The result it´s amazing. Now we are ready for our official debut but we´re short on resources to print and promote our cd. What we´re asking you is to buy our cd in advance so we can put the money together to have it printed. We will be making approximately 600-1000 duplications to be sold in stores, shows and used for the
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www.nature.com Kerri Smith www.nature.com Jim Gilles 2012/01/19 Kerri Smith & Cesar Harada In October 2010, Cesar Harada found himself in New Orleans with little money and a big idea. Harada, an engineer, had been working on oil-spill mitigation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. But he quit the lab in frustration at what he saw as a slow pace of work and a focus on expensive solutions. He travelled south to join the clean-up operation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Once there, his mind turned to a futuristic solution: a low-cost clean-up robot that local people could build and deploy themselves. Yet his two criteria for the project — a quick build and open-source intellectual property — all but ruled out academic or industrial funding. Harada turned to Kickstarter, a website used by authors, film-makers and artists in search of project funding. He uploaded a pitch, set a goal of raising US500 and listed a series of small rewards for donors. Then he started to network furiously. Money came in from friends and engineering colleagues. A few companies heard about his idea; they pitched in several thousand dollars each. Word reached people he had never met, and they contributed too. When Harada’s funding appeal closed in April 2011, he had raised almost 000 — enough to assemble a team of engineers and build a prototype of the clean-up robot. Public interest If Harada’s experience sounds like a one-off, think again
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Crowd Funding for Start-Ups: Will Canada Compete?

CATAAlliance — The Social Media paradigm is now extending to the funding of start-up companies, according to Canada’s largest high-tech organization, and Canada is in danger of falling behind the US in enabling small business to access capital. CATA has launched an advocacy Campaign to encourage provincial securities legislators to adopt approaches similar to the HR 2930 US Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. Tech Entrepreneur, Peter Andrews, CATA Director & Regional Director, Corum Group Ltd., interviewed by CATA CEO, John Reid. For background and full details please view at this URL: www.cata.ca
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THE CONTEST! Campaign link: www.indiegogo.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Listen the album’s preview on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com About the project Hi guys! we are Shide and we’re an indipendent italian rock band! Shide was born in 2001 and from that the line up is changed so many times…as the music genre! The present video is to ask you for something that´s vital to us! We began work on our first release album in August 2009. We´ve worked hard these past two years perfecting the sound to achieve today´s result. There are some samples we´ve embedded for you to listen just for this campaign. We’re finally ready to complete the project, but are in need of procuring additional funding to make it happen. We’ve been working in some great studio in Conversano, BA Italy with top gear, engineers and with the Michael C. Ross consulence (LA engineer producer of world famous artists like Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Carlton and many other). Our album will feature anywhere between 11 and 13 tracks (will be also two cover) of our best songs. We´ve also produced our first video that proved to be a massive amount of work we´re very proud of today. For this we must thank the guys from Basix Communication and all of our friends that gave us an hand. The result it´s amazing. Now we are ready for our official debut but we´re short on resources to print and promote our cd. What we´re asking you is to buy our cd in advance so we can put the money together to have it printed. We will be

Seth Godin on worldview, giving and crowd sourcing.m4v

Master Coach + Freedom Fighter Sherold Barr interviews Seth Godin on worldviews, crowd sourcing and charitable giving.
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Using Crowdsourcing to Protect Your Privacy
The prototype system, built for Android apps for now, sends the app's description—and its associated data-access requests—to human workers through Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service. Those remote workers read the settings and offer …
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Go Lbs Salt is Crowd Funding the Southwest's First Truffiere

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Go Lbs Salt is Crowd Funding the Southwest's First Truffiere
Due to the incredibly steep costs of starting a truffiere, the Eckburgs have turned to crowd funding to raise the necessary $ 3.5 million dollars to get their venture off the ground. We spoke with Aaron on Tuesday and he shared some insight into the …
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CrowdFunding Industry Braces for Regulation
By EMILY CHASAN With President Barack Obama signing the JOBS act in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the clock will start ticking for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to come up with rules to regulate the nascent crowd-funding industry.
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Text Mining meets Crowd Sourcing: author disambiguation in High-Energy Physics

Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access, CERN

AsOneSource The world's largest IT deployment Expert Crowd Sourcing platform, Free IT Rollout engine

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What are you crowdsourcing today? Probably more than you think. Irrespective of what opinions you have on the concept of crowd-sourcing, many have found it to be a useful whether they be large organisations or individuals. They realise the power and potential of crowd-sourcing, gaining larger data-sets than are possible through traditional methods. You submit to the crowd on a daily basis implicitly or explicitly with examples in this video that I made for a course on ‘Internet Driven Innovation’ at the London School of Economics. This video gives examples of crowdsourcing by Kickstarter, Soundcloud, Twitter, Facebook, OpenIDEO, youtube, ReCaptcha, Amazon, Google Demo Slam, Oxford English Dictionary, WIkipedia, Google Earth, Video style inspired by M. Wesch www.youtube.com Comments appreciated. www.hellojam.es
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