IS52026 Social Computing Week 8: crowdsourcing, flashmobs and crowdfunding dan mcquillan

http://grassrootsmapping.org/2010/01/grassroots-mapping-with-the-shipibo-in-the-center-of-lima/

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http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/02/01/incrediblewatch-volunteers-translate-egyptian-phonemessages-into-tweets/ SHOW Higher res version: Volunteers translate Egyptian protesters' phone messages into tweetshttp://vimeo.com/19421428 (HD version http://vimeo.com/19416088) from 03:20 As of 9:50pm PDT on January 31, the volunteer translators had already more or less completed the translation of nearly 200 phone messages. All of that work was done in roughly five hours amazing. immediacy. Free. Context.

458,832 pages of documents. Your workers are unpaid, so make it fun. Mugshots. Leaderboard. Speed is mandatory, so use a framework. Django. Thanks to EC2, Willison guessed the Guardians full out-ofpocket cost for the whole project will be around 50. SHOW http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/page/10005/ SHOW http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/labour/jackstraw/ scale. RT @wikileaks Crowdsource the Spy Files! Tag discoveries your country/phone/computer/etc with #wlfind http://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/28 /iran-dead-detained-protests-elections-spreadsheet http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/06/27/iranianofficials-crowd-source-protester-identities-online/

by Power to the People

2005 The 'net made flesh? http://www.alternet.org/story/26807? page=entire 'Bill' - And they should be absurd or funny, they shouldn't be explicitly political." But then, people still saw the absurd things as being political... One thing a lot of people really liked was the fact that the mobs were generally taking place in some kind of commercial space. People wanted the mob to be disruptive. Was that the first inkling of politicizing it -- a sort of anticonsumerism? I think that was part of it. Commercial space is quasi-public space. You're welcome to come in so long as you are considering buying something. So if you do something crazy ... Once you try to express yourself in a way that indicates that you're not interested in buying anything, you're suddenly a trespasser. And so, when you think in those terms, the idea that all these people who seem to be shoppers show up at a Toys 'R' Us and do something completely out of their minds toys'r'us flashmob 1st amendment flashmob but then T-mobile

Teeme ara There was more than 10 000 tons of illegal waste lying around in Estonian nature. In october 2007, as a group of active citizens, we realised that something drastic needs to be done. We developed a special software and geomapped more than 10 000 dumping sites all over the country. And on 3rd of May 2008, engaging hundreds of organisations and more than 50 000 volunteers, we cleaned it all up in just 5 hours! http://www.teeme2008.ee/?setlang=eng SHOW http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&list=PLCE64BAFE6D7 04287&v=LupKihuu0Cw#!

AustinBloodDriveTweetup twitter = san fransisco coffee dates? SHOW http://vimeo.com/1530230 01:25 esp 02:00

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Sustainable more people. Teach / share skills for next generation. 00:50 to 1:15 good run down of the 'just do it' digital culture ethos SHOW Crop Mob http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0rPBbtgnWbo

Remember copyright versus the Commons slide of the Diggers The webs potential for good stems from the open, collaborative and even communal culture it inherited where it started in academia and the counter culture of the 1960s, combined with pre-industrial ingredients it has resurrected, folk culture and the commons as a shared basis for productive endeavour. Leadbeater, Charles. We-think: Mass innovation, not mass production: The Power of Mass Creativity. Illustrated edition. Profile Books, 2008.

There is no cause for alarm geiger counters creative commons data These are crowd-source readings from numerous geiger counters hooked up to the Internet. The folks at Pachube have aggregated these readings and made them available for people to play with. The readings come from sources such as local councils, motivated individuals and official readings from Japans Ministry internet of things also crowd funding!

The Age of Stupid is perhaps the most publicized and successful case to-date; this film raised $1.2 million via crowd funding, and also used crowdsourcing to distribute and exhibit it around the world. . The Age of Stupid raised 900,000 from over 600 investors.

New Backers by Month http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/one-million-backers

http://www.kickstarter.com/ http://www.shareable.net/blog/crowdfunding-nation-the-riseand-evolution-of-collaborative-funding Yancey Strickler, one of Kickstarters founders, had his own reservations before starting the company, noting in a New York Times interview that his initial response to cofounder Perry Chen was, Im not so sure about this...If you let people vote for what they want thats American Idol, that doesnt produce great art. By turning collaborative funding into a high-stakes game, Kickstarter demands a certain level of quality from its creators, encourages that they work to promote it, and gives backers confidence that theyll only pay for projects that achieve a critical mass of support.

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/10000-successful-projects

Funding projects is habitual, according to Kickstarters figures. Out of 1,013,725 total backers, 166,823 have funded two or more projects, 66,676 have backed three or more, and 23,601 have backed five or more. Kickstarter pledges are not donations, as most of the contributions are associated with tangible rewards, nor are they a form of micro-venture capital, as funders retain no equity in the funded project. While crowdfunding need not limited in topic, Kickstarter is focused almost exclusively on funding creative and community focused projects. /book: CollaborativeFutures, n.d. http://www.booki.cc/collaborativefutures/. The sheer breadth of successful campaigns launched in the past year are impressive, including feature films, web series, musicians releasing records, web startups, gadget accessories, art projects, homebrew video games, urban farms, journalism, open-source projects, road trips, social activism, small businesses, even documentaries about the sharing economy

http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/balloon-mapping inc images January 2010, Jeff Warren worked with a series of organizations and communities to produce maps with children and adults from several communities in Lima, including the Cantagallo settlement of Shipibo on the bank of the Rimac and the Juan Pablo II community in Villa El Salvador. Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own "community satellites" made with inexpensive digital cameras. The resulting images, which are owned by the residents, are georeferenced and stitched into maps which are 100x higher resolution that those offered by Google, at extremely low cost. In some cases these maps may be used to support residents' claims to land title.

By GonzoEarth

C.F. MAP KIBERA Since May 2010, we have been working with New Orleansbased Louisiana Bucket Brigade to get Gulf Coast residents out on boats and along beaches to produce high-resolution aerial imagery of the spills effects. All the imagery from this project is being released into the public domain http://grassrootsmapping.org/about/ SHOW Grassroots Mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloons and kites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iseigOBm4k4 EXERCISE: OTHER APPLICATIONS OF BALLOON MAPPING? Camera hack SHOWhttp://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_for_Dummies