Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

On Earth, the former US fighter pilot during the Cold War fought the Russians; in space, the US and Russia worked as allies. If fifteen nationalities could collaborate on one of the most ambitious missions in history, then surely, we could apply that level of cooperation and innovation to creating a better world. "I

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

Subways and metro stations remain a problem. It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. So far, Metro4All has apps for 14 cities in Russia and other countries in Europe. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All. What Is Metro4All?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. But Botsman overlooks some of the tensions found in the collaborative economy.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 20, 2018

You should know what that protocol is and what the system is beforehand, so that you know can handle that breaking news and avoid any problems that can come with rapid response. When doing social media at the national level for a large organization, how do you collaborate with people working at the local level?

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