contribute skills and expertise
- Expert Labs: www.expertlabs.org
- Extraordinaries/Sparked: www.sparked.com
- We’ve Got Time To Help: www.wevegottimetohelp.org
collectively re-use
- Feral Robot Dogs: www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/feralrobots/
be a citizen scientist
- New York State Dept of Environmental Conservation: www.dec.ny.gov/animals/1155.html
- Innocentive: Boston Museum of Science project: gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9719645
transform public data into useful tools
- NYC Big Apps 2.0: www.nycbigapps.com
- Trees Near You: www.treesnearyou.com
- Health 2.0 Developer Challenge: www.health2challenge.org
collect data
- NoiseTube: www.noisetube.net
- Mobile Millennium: traffic.berkeley.edu
contribute to our understandings of history
- Library of Congress Veterans History Project: loc.gov/vets/
- OutHistory: www.outhistory.org/wiki/Main_Page
- New York Times: Documenting the Decade: www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/2009-decade.html#/intro
make art
- Exquisite Clock: www.exquisiteclock.org/clock/index.php?live=1&tag=random
- The Johnny Cash Project: www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#
- Harley Burland Scapes: www.decordova.org/art/exhibitions/current/scapes.html
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#1 by David on October 30, 2010 - 11:10 am
A good piece on the challenges of implementing effective crowd sourcing for social good (or anything else) – mashable.com/2010/10/12/social-good-crowdsourcing/