Crowdsource

99designs is an online ‘design contest’ marketplace, connecting the buyers and sellers of graphic design work. Users post a brief of what they want done, together with a ‘prize’ amount for the winning design. Would-be designers then respond with their ideas until the user choses a winner.

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Akvo creates and shares internet and mobile phone tools that for the first time make it easy for everyone to reach out and fund thousands of new water and sanitation projects, in some of the poorest parts of the world. This is really important, because today 2.6 billion people lack sanitation facilities and 1.1 billion still can’t access safe drinking water. Fix this, and people climb out of poverty fast.…

Akvo focuses on solving three problems through openness: – Open knowledge sharing. It runs www.akvopedia.org, an information portal designed to act as a “wikipedia for water”, which is open and free for all to use. – Find projects to fund, or find donors to fund your project. www.akvo.org is an online marketplace designed to scale to feature very large numbers of small-scale water and sanitation projects online, visible to…

Catwalk Genius introduced the concept of ‘crowd-funding’ to the fashion industry. In short, anyone may buy shares in a new fashion collection. The funding collected is used to create a clothing range and the revenues from its sales are shared equally between designer, supporters and Catwalk Genius. Supporters are given perks in return for their support, such as signed design sketches or seats at a catwalk show.

They enable the public to decide democratically about the kind of fashion that gets made, as opposed to the fashion media. Any fashion designer with production capacity may join the scheme, although there is an approval stage to ensure the quality of their work.

Chaordix delivers the technology and know-how to help organizations adopt crowdsourcing for competitive advantage. Chaordix makes it simple to invite crowds to submit, discuss, vote on, and often refine and rank contributions via the web. Contributions may be ideas, solutions, tasks or funding. Chaordix crowdsourcing technology equips any organization for web-based open innovation with products proven to engage members and foster contribution.

Chaordix provides other organisations with know-how on how make use of cowdsourcing and tool to get started. So in a way it’s more a facilitator of openness. They have different sorts of tools depending on the level of openness you as company like to use e.g crowdsource only within your organisation – only between students and stakeholders of innovation or for example everyone, the public.

CloudMade makes the most of mapping data by sourcing it from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. They aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.

They are building a company on open data and are focussing their business strategy on the creation of a vast network of developers to spread the use of open street map’s geo data….

Cofundos brings people interested in the development of Open Source software together.

Someone posts a project idea, then other site members discuss the idea, refine it, and bid money for its ‘realization’. Specialists offer to realize the project within a timeframe for a certain amount of money. The bidders then vote on each offer to accept. The selected specialist realizes the project, after which the bidders vote on whether the project…

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CrowdSpirit is a platform connecting companies with innovators to help with the design of products and services. The innovators respond to challenges set forth by the companies. They can then be invited by the business to join the project and upon the project’s completion, the innovators are the first to use the innovative new product/service and may receive some other rewards as well.

Openness in this case is all about using your customers for input while developing new product/services. CrowdSpirit is a platform/facilitator that enables this process to happen. It’s crowdsourcing they use to find their consumers and it’s co-creation they apply for developing products/services together. The CrowdSpririt platform does not yet offer private individuals the possibility of submitting a challenge. As soon as the community is large enough, CrowdSpirit will look into…

Next to the The Facebook Developer wiki, in which users can upload any comments, suggestions etc regarding the Facebook platform Facebook now aso developed Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is a powerful set of APIs for developers that lets users bring their identity and connections everywhere. You can build rich integrations that help make the Web more social with Facebook Connect, or that provide a social experience right on Facebook. Users can…

The wiki, Facebook developed isn’t really seen as being open, especially since you as a user can’t change/add anything yourself. Facebook collects all input and decide what to do with it themself. The Facebook Connect on the other hand is seen as being more open. Facebook made available a framwork for users to develop applications in. You upload them onto the platform – Facebook screens all new entries – and…

Filmaster is a social network for movie fans, with personalized content and recomendations. Filmaster allows you to run your own film blog in a great domain like you.filmaster.com, rate movies and talk about movies with people whose opinions you care about. Personalized recommendations are a bonus.

Filmaster is being developed as an open source project (using django framework) and is free software licenced under APGLv3. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Flickr is an image and video hosting website. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images they embed in blogs and social media.

Photo-sharing amongst users have become commonplace. Many people would take images and contributions from each other via Flickr profiles to decorate their own websites/blogs. It utilizes the power of the crowds to contribute content, and allows that content to be publicly viewed and distributed.