Everything that is CrowdSourcing...
Everybody knows what it looks like when the police need help. When chances are low that investigating officers will catch the wanted crooks they call out for help. Another tone of voice than “Wanted Dead or Alive” is used nowadays, but the power of the crowds in helping to find out the truth is evident. [...]
The Dutch applied sciences research institute, TNO, breeding ground of white coats, has launched an initiative to celebrate it’s 75th birthday. A smart move to create more public awareness, and a very nice instance of a Crowdsourcing platform. (Alas, for everyone that isn’t fluent in dutch, the site is totally in cheese-speak).
What they ask [...]
In the December 2006 issue of Time magazine the annual Person of the Year article, in which a person is profiled which “has done the most to influence the events of the year” . In the previous decennia people like Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were all profiled. However in [...]
In 1941 a young German engineer named Konrad Zuse finished the first working computer. A good 5 years, Valentine’s day 1946, later the ENIAC was unveiled by a unrelated research team at Penn State, Pennsylvania. Even though the first had advanced features, that the latter lacked, it had little influence on the development of [...]
This website is dedicated to all of the following:
Open innovation, lead user innovation, co-creation, the wisdom of crowds, collective intelligence, social creation, community driven innovation, social ideas, brandgagement, prosuming...
You can’t see the forest for the trees, can you?
Therefore, we keep it simple. We give these concepts one label: Crowdsourcing. On Crowdsourcingdirectory.com we [...]