You’ve probably heard how Sputnik, that low orbiting satellite lobbed into space by the Russians on the 4th of October 1957, effectively triggered the space race. But there’s one detail many don’t know –that it gave birth to one of the earliest crowd-sourced events, fueled by the Moonwatch program.
Derrick Mains, kicked off the SustainAZility movement, with the launch of a wiki last evening by drawing this analogy. “Fifty three years ago, they crowd-sourced the most critical, scientific aspects of date collection!.”
“Tonight with better technology -and as you can see that same passion–we’re gonna follow that same model, by actually launching our own crowd-sourced, data collection and economic development plan called SustainAZility.”
Brown Russell, President of GreenNurture, and Park Howell, CEO and founder of Park&Co also spoke at the event. Attendees then proceeded to log into the wiki and update content.
- Listen to the whole speech here
- Access the SustainAZility Wiki here
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