Crowdsourcing e Crowdfunding: un elenco di risorse
Una delle caratteristiche più importanti dell’evoluzione di internet è relativa all’affermarsi della cultura della partecipazione.
In questo contesto si parla quindi di crowdsourcing e di crowdfunding e probabilmente il modo migliore per comprenderne il significato e le possibilità è attraverso qualche esempio.
Riteniamo quindi utile riportare di seguito un elenco di risorse relative allo sviluppo di iniziative appunto di crowdsourcing e crowdfunding (grazie al link trovato sull’interessante blog di Claudio Pasqua):
Research & Development platforms
- Innocentive – open innovation problem solving
- TekScout – crowdsourcing R&D solutions
- IdeaConnection – idea marketplace and problem solving
- Yet2.com – IP market place
- PRESANS (beta) – connect and solve R&D problems
- Hypios – online problem solving
- NineSigma – technology problem solving
Marketing & Design platforms
- RedesignMe – community co-creation
- Atizo – open innovation market place
- Innovation Exchange – open innovation market place
- Idea Bounty – crowdsourcing ideas
- Guerra Creativa – crowdsourcing anything from logos to websites
- Brand Tags – tagging brands
- Battle of concepts – student challenges
- crowdSPRING – creative designs
- LeadVine – crowdsourcing lead generation
Collective Intelligence & Prediction platforms
- Inkling Markets – use wisdom of the crowd for forecasting
- Intrade – global prediction markets
- NewsFutures – collective intelligence markets
- Ushahidi – crowdsourcing crisis information
- We Are Hunted – the online music chart
- ESP Game/Google Image Labeler – crowdsourced image labeling
Freelancers platforms
- TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing
- Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting
- HumanGrid – small online task solving
- Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing
Open innovation software
- spigit – idea management 2.0
- Imaginatik – collective intelligence software
- Fellowforce – software/suggestion box 2.0
Intermediary open innovation services
- Big Idea Group – organize innovation contests and idea hunts
- Idea Crossing – organize innovation quests
- Pharmalicensing – open innovation for the life sciences
- Chaordix – crowdsourcing engine for innovation
- Exnovate – The Network of Excellence on Open & Collaborative Innovation
Creative Co-Creation
- Spreadshirt – shirt community
- JuJups – personalized gifts
- Threadless – create and sell your t-shirts
- Naked&Angry – threadless for ties and wall coverings
- cafepress – shop, create or sell what’s on your mind
- zazzle – create and sell products
- CreateMyTattoo – crowdsourced tattoo design
- Sellaband – crowdfunded bands
- Artistshare – fans funding new artists
- Dream Heels - design your dream heels
Product Ideas crowdsourcing
- P&G Open Innovation Challenge – external idea sourcing in Britain
- Ideas4Unilever – corporate venturing
- BMW Customer Innovation Lab – in german
- LeadUsers.nl & Live Simplicity – Philips’ crowdsourcing platforms
- Kraft – innovate with Kraft
- InnovationJam* – IBM’s more internally focussed idea generation project
- Dell IdeaStorm – external idea sourcing
- Vocalpoint – P&G’s network for women
- Betavine – Vodafone’s mobile app community
- My Startbucks Idea – shaping the future of Starbucks
Branding & Design crowdsourcing
- Spreadshirt Logo Design Contest – let community design new logo
- Gmail M-Velope Video Competition – viral video competition
- LEGO Factory – LEGO co-creation tool
- Peugeot – Peugeot’s design contest
- Muji – improving and suggesting new designs
- Electrolux Design Lab – annual design competition for students
- Fluevog – open shoe design
- LEGO Mindstorms – open source robots
- BurdaStyle – open source sewing
- GoldCorp – the famous GoldCorp Challenge
Peer Production
- CrowdSpirit – product development 2.0
- Linux – open source software
- Wikipedia – peer produced encyclopedia
- Yahoo Answers – crowdsourced Q&A
- A Swarm of Angels – creating a £ 1 million film
Public Crowdsourcing
- iBridge Network – platform for university innovation (iBridge)
- Science Commons – generic license agreements (Science Commons)
- Picnic Green Challenge – ideas to save the planet
- Eureke medical – medical open innovation platform
- German Catholic Church – catholic church adopts open innovation
- Fold it – solve puzzles for science
- Ideas Campaign – citizen ideas in Ireland
- Galaxy Zoo – discovering the universe
