Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article.
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Digital Divide
Posted in IT, cooperation, international organization, internet, media, ong, open source, people, society, solidarity, technology, tagged accesso, alfabetizzazione informatica, bangalore declaration, bharat mehra, broadband, communication, computer, DD, digital citizen, digital divide, disegualianze, divario digitale, education, educazione, encore ltd, gap, global economy, global village, inequality, information technology, infrastrutture, internet, IT, ITC, lisa servon, MDG, network society, nuove tecnologie, pc, poverty, resource, servizi telematici, simpluter, summit società dell'informazione, trashware, UN, unequal access on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with effective access to digital and information technology and those without access to it. It includes the imbalances in physical access to technology as well as the imbalances in resources and skills needed to effectively participate as [...]
Wikipedia
Posted in IT, cooperation, free, international organization, internet, media, open source, people, society, technology, web 2.0, tagged collaboration, collaborazione, collective intelligence, cooperation, education, enciclopedia, encyclopedia, free, gratis, intelligenza collettiva, internet, jimmy wales, knowledge, larry sanger, no profit, sapere, technology, volunteers, web 2.0, wiki, wikimedia, wikipedia on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video: “Truth in Numbers”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the [...]
Why Firefox is better?
Posted in advertising, cooperation, media, open source, technology, tagged browser, firefox, mozilla, open source, spot, tutorial on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser faster, more secure, and fully customizable.
Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user’s desired search engine. Functions can be added through around 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers.
Firefox runs [...]
Open Source
Posted in linux, media, open source, tagged free, gratis, IT, linux, open source, richard stallman, society, ubuntu, video on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available.
Open source (termine inglese che significa sorgente aperto) indica un software rilasciato con un tipo di licenza per la quale [...]
