OpenIDEO is a community that brings together human-centered design methods with a web-based platform to tackle social issues. It’s a platform that deliberately addresses the question: Is a crowd better at solving problems than just a small team or...
The benefits of crowdsourcing for crisis information were brought into the limelight in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, when Ushahidi, a platform originally developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in...
My colleagues, Michael Smith and Kari Saratovsky, and I are presently at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New York City (along with over 5,000 other attendees!). There is so much great information coming from this conference...
