crowdsourcing Archive
19 Jan 2011
Bring Crowdsourcing Home – Crowdsourcing Fire and Floods
It is a goal to bring Crowdsourcing home in 2011. Our CrisisCommons Toronto team attended a meeting with the Ontario Government, Ministry of Natural Resources on January 18, 2011. It was an honour to have our first official Canadian provincial government meeting. I presented this overview to attendees. Crisismapper volunteers from Russia and Australia provided
12 Jan 2011
Haiti Seminar: Communications and Volunteers
On Monday, I had the distinct honour to participate in a seminar at York University: The Haiti Earthquake of Jan 2010: Lessons Learned.“. Brian Chick and I were on a panel with Kenneth Kidd of the Toronto Star: Role of the Local, National and International Media; Communication Challenges; Reality, Myths, and Perception Issues. (Photo by
08 Nov 2010
Traveling the Open Web
If learning is about the diverse journeys, then travel metaphors seem appropriate. Mozilla Drumbeat’s Learning, Freedom and the Web brought over 400 people to Barcelona, Spain for a 3-day event. Normally, I save highly personal introspective writing for other spaces. But, there is value in reflection on the greater journey of learning and the open
28 Oct 2010
Random Hacks of Kindness – Toronto
Random Hacks of Kindness 2.0 (RHoK) is in Toronto on December 4 – 5, 2010. This is the first Canadian RHoK event and the 3rd global event. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a community of developers, geeks and tech-savvy do-gooders around the world, working to develop software solutions that respond to the challenges facing
22 Oct 2010
Crowdsourcing the Commons
TechSoup Canada hosted NetSquared Tuesday on October 19, 2010. I had the pleasure of sharing the CrisisCommons/CrisisCamp story with attendees. The second part of the talk was to provide participants tips and lessons learned about crowdsourcing. I also gave people some homework to consider adding Crowdmap to their own crowdsourcing mix for local NGOs and
28 Sep 2010
Macrowikinomics Launches!
Don Tapscott’s Macrowikinomics is launching with Discovery Day: a global meet-up for community collaboration across organizations. The aim is to unite innovators to share an event celebrating the power of crowdsourcing and collaboration. Celina Agaton, a consultant for Tapscott and CrisisCamp Toronto volunteer, provided the following details on the event: Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the