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Crowdsourcing

February 2021

  • Life in a Day 2020

    First look review
    Life in a Day 2020 review – ambitious, bizarre and hugely exasperating

    Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate ad

June 2019

  • Israel Folau

    Israel Folau donations soar past $2m – as Australian Christian Lobby cashes in

    Support ‘overwhelming’, ACL says, announcing it will suspend campaign for now

May 2019

  • ‘I was almost jealous of Alexa’ … a still from Lauren, in which McCarthy watched over people’s homes.

    Let me into your home: artist Lauren McCarthy on becoming Alexa for a day

    She livestreams her dates, once became a real-life Alexa and built a light that dims in boring company. As AI: More Than Human opens at the Barbican, meet an artist for the tech age

April 2019

  • Head teachers protest against budget cuts last October.

    Schools, put down your begging bowls. Unite and protest instead

    Holly Rigby
    When pencils and lined paper have to be crowdfunded, you know something is desperately wrong, says the teacher and activist Holly Rigby

February 2019

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Space, the final frontier for those hoping to part us from our money

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Arwa Mahdawi: What do attempts to establish a human colony on Mars, a $9bn blood-test startup and the Fyre festival have in common? Sheer chutzpah

November 2018

  • Diversity People Connection Digital Devices Browsing Concept

    Women in technology
    New crowdsourced recruitment tool aims to get more women into tech

    Heidi Harman is the founder of international tech women’s network, Geek Girl Meetup. Her new projects use data and peer recommendations to tackle the industry’s diversity problem

August 2018

  • Suzanne Moore

    First thoughts
    Alex Salmond is using crowdfunding to signal his power. That’s wrong

    Suzanne Moore
    The message being sent out is that what happens to women is always less important than the reputation of ‘great’ men, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore

August 2017

  • Bus with VAMOOZ logo

    Transport
    Uber for coaches: can these startups revolutionise intercity travel?

    New technology platforms are using crowdsourced buses to fill transport gaps and cut the cost of travel

July 2017

  • Paper plane, dart in hand

    Nasa needs you: space agency to crowdsource origami designs for shield

    In the search for ways to efficiently pack a radiation shield to protect manned spacecraft on deep space missions, Nasa is looking to the public for help

March 2017

  • crowd at a music festival

    Music blog
    When did you last hear live music? Stand up and be counted

    The first ever UK Live Music Census is surveying a day’s worth of live music across the country. In a digital world with ever more ways to listen, is being there still the biggest thrill?

October 2016

  • Eve Tech 1

    Eve-Tech's crowdsourced computer: the laptop designed by its users

    The Finnish startup turned to an online community of tech enthusiasts to shape the design of its new device. The result? Something ‘really different’

September 2016

  • Watermelon seeds are readied for planting as part of an aid project in Rwanda

    Financing for development
    Crowdfunding development aid would direct funds where they are needed most

    Blair Glencorse
    Websites such as GlobalGiving and Kickstarter have re-imagined the way we support issues we care about. Can we do the same for aid programmes?

July 2016

  • One of Mini Museum’s projects

    From virtual communities to real-life enterprises … How Kickstarter generated more than $5bn

    The crowdfunding platform – which notoriously funded the Oculus Rift – has the power to connect people, reignite dying markets and promote social wellbeing. All while raking in real hard cash for its project creators

June 2016

  • Do crowds really make the best decisions? Here’s a picture of a crowd chosen completely at random from the Guardian’s archives.

    Raising HAL
    Do crowds really make the best decisions? I found out using scotch

    Martin Robbins: To find out whether the ‘wisdom of crowds’ is real, I asked people on Twitter to guess the weight of my scotch. With Britons voting in a referendum to leave the EU, their responses speak volumes about the ability of populations to find the right answers

April 2016

  • Front page of the Science Gossip website

    The H word
    People power: how citizen science could change historical research

    Harnessing the crowd power of ‘non-specialists’ could help historians investigate big-data archives, and in the process make everyone an expert

November 2015

  • Chad Dickerson, centre right, celebrates Etsy’s IPO with employees.

    Could the gig economy transform every industrial process?

    Doc Searls and Etsy’s Chad Dickerson speak to Matt McAlister about the internet’s power to turn sellers into buyers and buyers into sellers

July 2015

  • Hugh Jackman in 2013's The Wolverine

    Hugh Jackman crowdsources plot for his final Wolverine

    Australian actor posts thank you video praising ‘amazing response’ after his initial message is retweeted almost 10,000 times

June 2015

  • Recording king penguins

    GrrlScientist
    Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's bird songs

  • Chough

    I can hear the sea! How the sounds of the British coast are being mapped

May 2015

  • A young man with glasses is watching futuristic symbols on a computer screen.

    If one thing gives me hope for the future, it’s the cause of ​internet freedom

    Cory Doctorow
    Technology activists are often painted as blind to the shortcomings of the digital world. But it’s these groups who hold the key to progressive change in the fight for a fairer internet
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