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Labor Law and Crowdsourcing

Jul-13-11 By Aminda
A UC Berkley Law Student has published a forward-thinking analysis of Employment and Labor Law in the Crowdsourcing Industry, which should be of interest to anyone involved as an employer or worker in a crowdsourcing model. The article uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk as a case study to illustrate how the current U.S. legal regime, described as “gap-ridden and outdated”, fails to accommodate new labor models.
The author’s recommendations for improvement are multi-faceted, addressing five influencers.
Space Program Engages Amateur Astronomers

Space Program Engages Amateur Astronomers

Jul-11-11 By Aminda
It’s a good time in history to be an amateur astronomer, as technology is making it possible for star gazers around the globe to connect, share and best of all, contribute to scientific discovery and research.
Crowdsourcing Connects Fans with Celebrities

Crowdsourcing Connects Fans with Celebrities

Jul-08-11 By Aminda
While virtual teams are teams are no longer novel, one interesting trend has been creating some unexpected team connections between celebrities and fans. New tech company Talenthouse is using a crowdsourcing model to give talented fans the opportunity to participate in projects with leading artists and brands in industries including music, media and fashion design.
Crowdsourced Crimefighting

Crowdsourced Crimefighting

Jul-06-11 By Aminda
Last month saw some creative ways to use social media and crowdsourcing to fight crime, providing an interesting comparison and contrast. In Egypt, an organized Twitter campaign was launched to bring awareness to widespread sexual harassment in the country. The organization HarassMap teamed up with activists and bloggers in Egypt and throughout the region to encourage citizens to use blogging and social media to share their experience with harassment and what they think needs to be done for it to stop.
Women Increase Team Intelligence

Women Increase Team Intelligence

Jul-05-11 By Aminda
Looking for a way to get more from your virtual or traditional team? A new Harvard Business study found a simple way to increase the collective intelligence of a team— add more women. The study gave teams of subjects, aged 18 to 60, standard intelligence tests and then scored teams based on performance. Conventional factors such as group cohesion, group motivation and intelligence were not highly correlated with success. However, preliminary findings indicate that not only is it good to have women in a group, but the more the better.
Engaging Government Constituents

Engaging Government Constituents

Jul-04-11 By Aminda
While the country of France is considered a leader in open innovation, the French government has long been stereotyped as bureaucratic and closed.  However, openness is quickly infiltrating French government as shown in a recent crowdsourcing exercise to uncover lobbying practices. The project took place in connection with the French chapter of Transparency International.
Over a year’s time, 3,000 French citizens got involved, analyzing more than 1,100 reports that had been published between 2007 and 2011, connecting each lobbyist with an organization and interest. From that data, they were able to generate an interesting profile of the types of organizations getting the attention of MPs during hearings. For example, companies are more often listened to on topics like economy, energy, environmental and on transportation, culture or digital issues. On the other hand, civil society organisations are more presents in topics like development aid or veterans.
New GlaxoSmithKline Innovation Portal

New GlaxoSmithKline Innovation Portal

Jul-02-11 By Aminda
The Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Products Division has recently launched an online Open Innovation portal as part of its business development strategy. GSK describes its open innovation strategy as a “Want – Find – Get – Manage” model. Wants represent technologies or innovation that will significantly contribute to the growth of global brands, and are the result of extensive research by our commercial and R&D teams. The company actively Finds those wants by building networks with innovators then works with them throughout the development process to Get technologies and effectively Manage relationships with external innovators. The result is market-leading products that meet consumers’ needs.
To spread awareness, GSK is using sites like www.urweb.tv, a rich media site devoted to accelerating commercialization, to reach hard-to-find inventors, entrepreneurs and garage geniuses.
Companies Collaborate to Protect Linux

Companies Collaborate to Protect Linux

Jul-01-11 By Aminda
The Open Innovation Network this year has received a fresh round of publicity after being joined by Facebook, HP and OpenStack. The OIN was formed in 2005 to ensure that individual programmers, independent software vendors, distributors and businesses have open access to intellectual property related to the Linux System. The organization accomplishes this by acquiring patents to be used for cross-licensing purposes to defend the Linux System - making them available on a royalty-free basis to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System.. These new members join companies including IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, Sony and NEC.
A Challenge to Big Pharma

A Challenge to Big Pharma

Jun-28-11 By Aminda
As discussed in a recent post, medical industry innovation is a hot topic. From making the patient experience better through communication to moving the drug development process into the future, like companies like Sanofi are doing. Sanofi is using technology licensed from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary along with a development pact with Audion Therapeutics to combat hearing loss. The goal is to discover small molecules to treat hearing loss through regenerative medicine. There are currently no disease-modifying prescription drugs for hearing loss, which affects nearly a third of people aged 65 to 74 and half of those over 75
Advances in Patient Care

Advances in Patient Care

Jun-27-11 By Aminda
The field of medicine development and medical care seems to have no end to the potential for innovative solutions for making it better: more effective, more efficient, more accessible. This year, several U.S. based initiatives have focused on improving health care through advancements in information management.

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