Enabling you to submit the critical issues that you are passionate about, in order to—as a community—discover the best solution and get results.
CauseRoot believes that when the wisdom of the crowd is distributed to the public, we can foster an informed global community. It is through this mechanism that we will enable that community to incrementally build a better world.
Where does all the research go when these guys run a challenge?
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/news-research/media-releases/b4dab9c5ba8ee310VgnVCM1000003256f70aRCRD.htm
Media Release | Deloitte Australia forms alliance with Kaggle to tap largest global data... Deloitte Australia announced today it had entered into a preferred alliance with Kaggle, a leading platform in solving data science challenges.
03/19/2013
Just submitted our application to the Knight News Challenge!!!
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/causeroot/
Friends - Please feel free to share, re-post, & 'applaud' (@ the site) our submission. Many thanks,
- Luis/Gardner/Roux/Katie
Knight Foundation News Challenge - How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact? - Knight Foundation News Challenge is a global community that will draw on your optimism, inspiration, ideas and opinions to solve problems together for the collective social good.
03/15/2013
Luis and Roux hard at work!
03/14/2013
Our private beta is already generating results that look good in the visual graph!
"I wonder if wolfram alpha can calculate the density of sriracha." - Luis
03/08/2013
CauseRoot's unofficial editor is officially awesome!
03/07/2013
We have really been kicking ass lately. Check out our burn down chart for our private beta! (in an ideal world the blue line would match the red line)
Our good friends are helping us to work out the last issues before opening private beta while Luis is putting some final touches on the second phase of the Echoing Green 2013 Application. Things feel like they are picking up momentum.
02/26/2013
We just passed 400 some-odd commits on CauseRoot!
02/21/2013
The new PR machine has taken hold of CauseRoot. They are making us update the original description on our github page: https://github.com/causeroot
02/19/2013
We are please to have been selected as semi-finalists for 2013 Echoing Green! http://www.echoinggreen.org/blog/announcing-2013-semi-finalists
Announcing the 2013 Semi-Finalists echoinggreen: To solve our most intractable social problems, says it's time for a smarter conversation: http://t.co/LoE9Z8iZ more Twitter »