The Point | Make Something Happen
Do something with a group, but only when you have the numbers to make it worthwhile.
Amazee is social collaboration
Amazee ist eine Plattform, auf der du deine Ziele präsentieren und dich mit Gleichgesinnten in Projekten verbünden kannst. Mit wenigen Mausklicks hast du ein Projekt gestartet. Mittels eines einfach editierbaren Projektmagazins kannst du dann die Besucher
Guerilla Gardening – Wikipedia
Carrotmob
Carrotmob organizes consumers to make purchases that give financial rewards to those businesses who agree to make socially beneficial choices.
Virgance: the story behind the company
Virgance is a for-profit company that takes new activism ideas and uses the power of online social networks to scale each idea into a large-scale, citizen-powered global campaign to improve the world.
Virgance gives philanthropy a proletarian twist - NYTimes.com
“Lend Me Some Sugar” takes a rather different tack. Big corporations all have a philanthropy budget of some size, because a percentage of profit can be donated as a tax write-off. Really big companies face a challenge in figuring out where and how to dist
Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
The Ushahidi Platform allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
Operation Leakspin
To improve the quality of the reports, we have chosen to introduce a concept of 'crowd-journalism' as a subform of crowdsourcing. Reports have to be posted, reviewed and if necessary corrected on the Quality Control System. This will lead to an enormous a
HarassMap
This project will implement a system in Egypt for reporting incidences of sexual harassment via SMS messaging. This tool will give women a way to anonymously report incidences of sexual harassment as soon as they happen, using a simple text message from t
Welcome | Transition Network
It's a place where there's a community-led process that helps that town/village/city/neighbourhood become stronger and happier. It's happening in well over a thousand highly diverse communities across the world - from towns in Australia to neighbourhoods