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Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services —including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digital platforms to attract and divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result.
International volunteering has a long association with international development or environment, with the aim of bringing benefits to host communities. [1] It can include a range of services, from healthcare advancement to economic development to governance. Trends show that international volunteering has become increasingly popular across many ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
A group of volunteers wearing Creative Commons t-shirts in Mumbai 2007. Creative Commons India Chapter is the country-level Chapter of Creative Commons in India.It organises online and offline events on various aspects related to open content, Open Educational Resources, Creative Commons licensed publishing and the use of Open Access textbooks in schools.
Piyush Pandey is an advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide (2019) [1] and Executive Chairman India of Ogilvy (agency). He is the recipient of the Padma Shri award (2016). [2] Pandey is also credited with shaping a distinct indigenous influence on Indian advertising that was earlier under the influence of western ...
Canvassing, also known as door knocking or phone banking, is the systematic initiation of direct contact with individuals, commonly used during political campaigns. Canvassing can be done for many reasons: political campaigning, grassroots fundraising, community awareness, membership drives, and more. [1] Campaigners knock on doors to contact ...
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2023 book by Sarah Ogilvie. The book examines the volunteer contributors who responded to public appeals by the Oxford English Dictionary for words. After finding address books that had belonged to editor James Murray in the basement archive of the Oxford ...
Community health. Public Health Training and awareness campaign. Community health refers to non-treatment based health services that are delivered outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is a subset of public health that is taught to and practiced by clinicians as part of their normal duties. Community health volunteers and community ...