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Crowdsourcing
ClaimWatch
Challenges Entered:
collaborative and crowd-sourced claims watching for good governance in Burma and beyond
Describe your project:
Wikirate.org - Rating Companies On CSR Issues Via Crowdsourcing
Challenges Entered:
Helping consumers integrate social and environmental considerations into their buying decisions
Description
Location
Chicago, IL
United States
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Ayiti SMS SOS: Human Rights Observatory & Helpline Initiative
Challenges Entered:
Haiti Human Rights Observatory & Helpline Initiative
Helping People Denounce Violence
Location
Petionville
Haiti
CrowdVoice
Challenges Entered:
Tracking voices of protest
CrowdVoice brings together the global community with the topics you care about and want to follow. Information about human rights abuses, demonstrations and current events are chosen and approved by the community. The information is pooled from news sources, blogs, video and social networking sites. Anyone is able to contribute information, suggest new topics, or approve what others already submitted.
Location
Vote Report India Version 2.0
Challenges Entered:
Vote Report India is a collaborative platform to enable Indian citizens to track election irregularities and monitor the performance of elected officials at national, state and local levels. Users contribute direct SMS, email, Twitter and web reports and the Ushahidi-based platform aggregates them on an interactive map, and distributes them via RSS and email/ SMS alerts. By crowd-sourcing the monitoring of the political process in India, Vote Report India aims to build civic engagement amongst India's youth and increase transparency and accountability in the Indian political process.
Location
India
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