Many types of crowdsourcing can be used, and indeed they have been used, in government activities. However, crowdfunding was still resisting … until now. In this post I present Uniempren, a crowdfunding platform that depends on the University of Valencia and has been funded by the spanish government.
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Fromlab: a pre-selling crowdfunding example
Pre-sale lending crowdfunding model, in which the funders do not receive rewards, but they buy products before being manufactured, had not yet been used in Spain… until Fromlab appeared. Here you have a brief explanation of this type of crowdfunding and a small interview (a couple of questions) to Mireia Valldecabres, fromlab CEO
Crowdopolis – an interview to David Alan Grier
On July 19 will take place in Los Angeles a conference about crowdsourcing called “Crowdopolis”, with great speakers like Nokia, Amazon, microtask, etc.. One of the speakers is going to be David Alan Grier, elected president of the IEEE Computer Society (among other things), who investigates the interaction between technology and people. Here you have an interview I could do because of his participation in “Crowdopolis”.
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