“Crowd-based efforts supporting research and scientific inquity”
Curated by
Kalani Kirk Hausman
Scope (blog)Can crowdfunding boost public support and financing for scientific research? 
Scientific American (blog)Crowdfunding for research dollars: a cure for science's ills?Scientific American (blog)The public disengagement with science and the difficulty of funding research are very different problems. 
Co.ExistPetriDish Lets You Participate In Cutting Edge Scientific ResearchCo.ExistThis leaves plenty of potentially valuable science with nowhere to go. 
TechCrunchCrowdfunding: $1.5B Raised, 1M Campaigns Funded In 2011; Figures Set To Double ...TechCrunchSites like KickStarter, RocketHub, IndieGoGo, Kiva, MicroVentures, buzzentrepreneur, and many more contributed to the report, so it would interesting... News stories from Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources. 
Following the massive success of her Kickstarter experiment, we asked Amanda Palmer if she wanted to write a quick guest post about why she thought the offering was so successful. Here's what came back, including a bonus bit from Sean Francis... 
If you find yourself chewing over the federal government’s approach to energy, environmental regulation or reproductive health, it’s hard not to conclude that our national science agenda goes where public pressure tells it to go. And you might suspect that a scientist whose work falls within the golden circumference of public enthusiasm would have a good shot at all sorts of government money. But there you’d be wrong 
Solid learning is a concept for integrating 3D printing into 
Almost 50,000 projects have sought financing on Kickstarter since the site began on April 28, 2009. About half successfully reached their fund-raising goals. Each dot represents how much a project raised by its deadline. 
In addition to being a participant again this year, I also curate topics relating to science crowdfunding and the #SciFund experiment itself using multiple tools. Previously, I talked about the Scoop.It curation tool ... 
#SciFund Challenge -4 days – We got the logo. Here we go. It's 01:00 am of Saturday 28th and I am straggling with rewards, video editing, project description (damn typos!), advertisements… Fortunately I am spending this fab ... Check out more at: http://scienceplug.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/scifund-challange-2-pop-science-rise-money/ What happen when a designer and a scientist meet? ... 
"When strangers ask you for money" on my #SciFund blog: www.STEMulate.org (http://t.co/ABHV2NKY "When strangers ask you for money" on my #SciFund blog: http://t.co/oWUM1xaB...)... |
The SciFundChallenge, crowdfunding for science, has proven to be a successful experiment founded by Dr. Jai Ranganathan and Dr. Jarrett Byrnes. The two scientists, both ecologists studying biodiversity, recognize not only ... 
Oakland LocalLocal startup uses crowdfunding for solar energy projectsOakland LocalSolar Mosaic is an online startup that uses a model, similar to Kickstarter, to help fund community solar energy projects. 
RocketHub gets “Creatives” to list their projects in the database, whether they be artistic, scientific or some other venture. As long as it's legal and in good taste, the campaign is welcome on RocketHub. 
You’ve heard of Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and a handful of other niche sites like them, but even crowdfunding experts might do a double take at this company if they were looking at an accurate list of the most successful crowdfunding sites out there... There's now a crowd-funding site for science -- like a scientific version of ...Democratic UndergroundJust reading about the projects is fascinating -- and if this really takes off like Kickstarter )which has seen some million-dollar hauls lately... 
Posts about this are on Oikos Blog and Culture of Science. Jamie Vernon started an interesting exchange earlier today on Twitter on this subject. Over the month, I plan to try to develop a sort of science corwdfunding manifesto ... 
The crowd-funding phenomenon was first popularized in the art world by sites like RocketHub and Kickstarter, but it has recently moved into scientific research. 
Kickstarter and the future of creative crowdfundingMacworldBecause of this, Andrew Russell, a software developer in Australia, used RocketHub to fund a tool to ease porting games from XNA ( Microsoft's game development framework) to other... 
When strangers ask for your money make sure they can and will do what they promise. 
A personalized daily newspaper built from #SciFund articles, blog posts, videos and photos. #SciFund Daily Monitor is out! I just posted my #SciFund project! Unfortunately it’s not public yet but it will be on May 1st. I have a very good feeling about this and I hope the project will be successful. Fingers crosse... (#SciFund Challenge project posted! 
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