And Jews were always religiously innovative, contesting the centralized authority of priesthood and orthodoxy.
In "Florida Mounts a Hunt for Creatures That Maintain a Very Low Profile," Lizette Alvarez writes about Florida wildlife officials' innovative contest to reduce the number of invasive Burmese pythons living there.
I spoke with founder Jack Hughes, who filled me in on TopCoder's humble beginnings at a picnic table, and the way the company approaches its innovative contest-driven, gamified, crowdsourcing solutions.
The Parliament of Things is an innovative writing contest that does just that, inviting people to put themselves in the position of a thing or animal and imagine their voice.
As a case study, it focuses on the Habitasampa architectural competition, which is considered to be one of the most innovative and important contests during this period.
We've been running the best weekly recipes from Food52's innovative crowdsourced recipe contest and cookbook project for a while now, and since Food52 is cultivating the web's premiere collections of home cooks' recipes, they've put together some of their best from the past year that could round out your Thanksgiving table -- including starters, sides & desserts.
The contest made innovative use of the publicity-generating potential of the Internet, requiring contestants to post links on forums, blogs, and websites and collecting votes from the users of those sites.
The first framework provides three dimensions of citizen-sourcing initiatives: purpose (image-making or ideation), collective intelligence type (professional knowledge or innovative ideas), and strategy (contest, wiki, social networking, or social voting).
And finally, Facebook issued an open call to Africa developers to enter its Bots for Messenger Challenge―a contest judging innovative new bots in categories of gaming and entertainment, productivity and utility, and social good.
Structured as a contest, the innovative program was aimed at developers where mash-up data and software existed alongside traditional procurement processes.
