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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

That’s made schools of all levels and the wider education industry that supports them a fruitful ground for crowdsourcing approaches. Three schools, in particular, have used crowdsourcing to make changes for the good of students. Now Columbia uses crowdsourcing to listen and act, making the school the best it can be.

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How Crowdsourcing is Enhancing the Healthcare Sector

IdeaScale

In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took a step that many found surprising: creating a prize and asking the world to reengineer the condom. But little noted was that Gates was pioneering crowdsourcing in healthcare … and that it worked. The Cleveland Clinic offers a great example. Open Innovation In Healthcare.

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Build Your Career by Sharing a Crowdsourced Idea

IdeaScale

In 2013, Stearns was 26-years-old. He says surprising things happen when you pull together a multidisciplinary group to crowdsource ideas. Stearns’ story is a great example of this sort of crowdsourced product development. It showcases how they’re thinking about crowdsourcing and innovation as part of their daily routine.

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Avoid the Iridium Moment

Destination Innovation

Another example given by Ismail is Nokia’s purchase of Navteq for a staggering $8B in 2007. They crowdsourced location data from the GPS sensors on people’s mobile phones in order to capture traffic information. in 2013 it had 50 million users – far more ‘traffic sensors’ than Nokia could match.

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Open Innovation Success Stories in the Car Industry

IdeaConnection

In 2013, the motor giant Citroen built the UK’s first crowdsourced car. Although our final example has nothing to do with the transport industry it is a perfect illustration of how someone working in one field (automotive) can use their background, experience and smarts to innovate in another.

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Game Changers: How Citizen Science and Gamification Are Transforming the Business World

Qmarkets

Crowdsourcing company HeroX provides a platform for citizen driven innovation and science projects in conjunction with the Nasa Tournaments Lab. Citizen science and crowdsourcing are being increasingly recognized as invaluable tools for solving large-scale problems that transcend borders. Currently, the company has more than 1.5

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The Remarkable Benefits of Digital Brainstorming

Qmarkets

Qmarkets' award-winning Idea management and crowdsourcing platforms allow organizations to brainstorm digitally, therefore not only eliminating the flaws with traditional brainstorming but at the same time creating valuable side-benefits. eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013. INTERACT 2013. Perteneder F., Hahnwald S.,