Think It Up: Reimagining School Funding to be Driven by the Students
School project funding now driven by student’s ideas at ThinkItUp.org and powered by DonorsChoose.org.
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Fiverr – get anything done with $5
While many use the platform to get task done cheaply, it needs to set stronger standard on the tasks to be sourced
reCAPCHA: Crowdsourcing Intelligence
reCAPCHA has digitized books and mapped the world with crowdsourcing… Now it uses humans’ comparative advantage to crowdsource the creation of a truly intelligent computer.
Julep: Defining beauty by numbers
From internet to store/house, Julep has been redefining the way beauty products are launched and consumed
Crowdfunding in Agriculture: Feeding the World
How crowdfunding in agriculture could unlock arable land, improve the wealth of small farmers in emerging markets and deliver strong returns to common people as investors.
Glassdoor is leveraging crowds to better inform job-seekers
Since it was founded in 2008, Glassdoor has been leveraging crowd-sourcing to create a vast database of job positions, salaries, interview processes, companies’ culture, and more.
Facebook – Crowd-sourced translation
How Facebook used crowdsourced translation to spur international growth
Wikipedia – Who is the authority for the Truth?
How can it be that anyone can write, and everyone believes it?
Spacehive: Crowdfunding Civic Projects in Great Britain
Spacehive democratizes urban planning by funding projects directly through the crowd.
Crowdsourcing sales forecasts: How Henkel leverages the collective wisdom of its employees
After traditional methods yielded unsatisfactory results, Henkel – which owns some of the most valuable European CPG brands – decided to leverage the collective wisdom of its employees to increase forecasting accuracy by using an internal prediction market.