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Dreamstarter: a crowdfunding platform launched by StartSomeGood and ING Direct in Australia
This year I am teaching again Development Finance and Innovative Finance Models in different Universities. I always look for innovative cases to discuss with students and I have found this interesting initiative of how banks can support social businesses. It has happened in Australia, where the crowdfunding platform, StartSomeGood has partnered with ING DIRECT Australia to launch…
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What is crowdsourcing and crowdfunding?
A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing. It shows how: to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), to use…
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My 10 favorite Crowdsourcing platforms for social good
I have written often in this blog about the power of collective action and how crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms are changing the economy (also see: The top 10 ways people are changing the economy for more examples of people action´s to improve the world). Today I want to share with you my 10 favourite crowdsourcing platforms for…
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