The Technology and Innovation class today was a little off-beat. Instead of discussing any IT concepts, Greg brought to us various ventures that are working for making the society better by effectively using technology and innovative business models to their advantage. Lot of these ideas were really impressive.
The session then landed into ventures that are deploying crowd sourcing successfully. Sanamax, Duolingo and Quirky. I was specially impressed with Duolingo - a platform which people use to learn languages, and in turn when they translated different words or sentences, they are actually contributing towards completion of various translation jobs that the company undertakes.
So, the subscribers learn foreign languages for free, clients get their data translated, and Duolingo earns its profit even while helping so many subscribers learn a new language.
I have to say that this is use of crowd sourcing at its best !!
Anyways, spent some time with Sophie to give finishing touches to Colorscope assignment and then enjoyed a great dinner at Nishant's place, prepared by Mrs Nishant and Mrs Hitesh :-)
A much better day, a much shorter day compared to last few :-)
The session then landed into ventures that are deploying crowd sourcing successfully. Sanamax, Duolingo and Quirky. I was specially impressed with Duolingo - a platform which people use to learn languages, and in turn when they translated different words or sentences, they are actually contributing towards completion of various translation jobs that the company undertakes.
So, the subscribers learn foreign languages for free, clients get their data translated, and Duolingo earns its profit even while helping so many subscribers learn a new language.
I have to say that this is use of crowd sourcing at its best !!
Anyways, spent some time with Sophie to give finishing touches to Colorscope assignment and then enjoyed a great dinner at Nishant's place, prepared by Mrs Nishant and Mrs Hitesh :-)
A much better day, a much shorter day compared to last few :-)
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