The Unglue.it platform has been set up to ‘Give ebooks to the world’. It aims to make it clearly legal for a digital book to be used, distributed, archived and preserved by libraries. They run crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds to reward the creators of the book and allow their … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Crowdfunding for a better world
Crowdfunding is not just the domain of business entrepreneurs. Dutch social enterprise and crowdfunding platform PIFworld (“PIF” stands for “Play it forward”) has shown that crowdfunding can also be used for social good. The site allows users to raise money for charities or humanitarian campaigns, as well as volunteer their time. How’s this … Continue reading
Zombie shooting game sets new high for Australian crowdfunding
If the worldwide craze for Zombies needed a local flavour then this record-setting project on Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible will deliver it! IRL Shooter Presents: Patient 0 is a live action videogame set in a building overun with Zombies with teams fighting for survival. Along the way players will need to … Continue reading
PPL brings crowdfunding craze to Portugal
As entrepreneurs and businesspeople continue to realise crowdfunding’s potential, new platforms are appearing in almost every corner of the globe. Portuguese crowdfunding website PPL (People with Portugal) is one such platform. While it is targeted at the Portuguese market, anyone can create or contribute to its projects. At just over one year old, it … Continue reading