My 10 favorite Crowdsourcing platforms for social good

By Guadalupe de la Mata | 3 de September de 2013 |

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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What is crowdsourcing and crowdfunding?

By Guadalupe de la Mata | 31 de July de 2012 |

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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Businesses using Crowdsourcing to promote Social Innovation

By Guadalupe de la Mata | 16 de July de 2012

Last April, Unilever hosted its ‘Sustainable Living Lab,’ a 24-hour, global social innovation online event aiming to generate new ideas across four key areas: – sustainable sourcing, production, distribution and consumer behaviour change. Recently, the world has witnessed a wave of businesses pioneering new ways of putting into practice the concept of ‘a problem shared can be…

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The power of citizens (Citizen 2.0): 17 examples of government social media innovation

By Guadalupe de la Mata | 4 de February de 2014

The internet has changed the way information is relayed and how people use it. We have gone from an era of broadcast dominated by passive reception to an era of digital natives, where communication is interactive and instantaneous. This new generation has grown up with the Internet and expects continuous participation. This evolution towards new communication…

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List of Open Innovation resources, tools, books and more

By Guadalupe de la Mata | 28 de February de 2013 |

Open innovation models have become an integral part of the innovation strategies and business models of companies in recent years. Innovation is increasingly based on knowledge assets beyond the boundaries of the company and co-operation has become an important way of tapping into knowledge resources outside in order to generate new ideas and bring them…

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