crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a specific sourcing model  in which individuals or organisations use contributions from Internet users to obtain needed services or ideas. Crowdsourcing was coined in 2005 as a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing.

 

Article

19-02-2016

Crowdsourced maps of Amsterdam

Everyone can participate in an online initiative to connect 5.000 old maps of Amsterdam to their geographical coordinates. This has partly emerged from the Heritage and Location project in which Waag participates.

 

Article

16-09-2014

The Immunity Project

Willem Duijvelshoff visited our event Do It Together Bio about Hacking HIV for Motherboard and reports (in Dutch).

 

Article

2-09-2014

Crowdsuing

Crowdsuing is new Dutch online platform that wants to solve injustices and find the funds for possible law cases by crowdfunding.

 

Article

17-09-2012

Crowdsourcing the constitution

The Dutch contitution needs an update. It is clearly outdated on a number of items (anyone still using the telegraph?).

 

Project

8-03-2012

Open Cities

Open Cities was a project of six major European cities: Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Barcelona.

 

Project

8-03-2012

De Populair (twitter tree)

The community park as shared media space. A metal tree that is self-sufficient and spreads your messages.