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== U ==
Unilever used the crowdsourcing platform IdeaBounty to find creative ideas for its next TV campaign for their snack food brand Peperami.
Ushahidi (Swahili for "testimony" or "witness") is a website created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election (see 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis) that collected eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google map. It is also the name of the open source software developed for that site, which has since been improved, released freely, and used for a number of similar projects.

== W ==
Waze is a free turn-by-turn GPS application for mobile phones that uses crowdsourcing to provide routing and real-time traffic updates.
"We Are The World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)" is a massively collaborative charity song and music video produced by Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa Lavie and posted to the YouTube video sharing website to raise money for victims of the 12 January, 2010 Haiti earthquake.  The video was the creation of a collaboration of 57 unsigned or independent YouTube musicians geographically distributed around the world. The Tokyo Times referred to J Rice's subsequently produced "We Pray for You" video, involving largely the same participants as were in Lavie's video, as an example of a trend to use crowdsourcing for charitable purposes.
Wikipedia is often cited as a successful example of crowdsourcing, despite objections by co-founder Jimmy Wales to the term.
Worth1000 is a community focused on creative contests, occasionally with financial incentives.  Original contests invited members to submit manipulated images (typically using Photoshop) for specific themes, often of a comic nature.  Now they have new contests regularly for photo effects (aka manipulated images), photography without effects, illustrations, writing and multimedia.  While most contests are run by the website, anyone can apply to post a contest, and people seeking professional creative work like logo design are encouraged to add financial incentives to their requests for less playful creativity.

== X ==
X-Prize is an innovation incentive prize using crowdsourcing mechanisms to tackle grand challenges that are considered failing as free markets. These represent pressing needs the humanity seeks solutions for, that previously have not been served by real entrepreneurial action.

== Z ==
Zooniverse is an online citizen science platform that uses the active participation of human volunteers to complete projects requiring more subtle reasoning or perception than electronic computer networks. It began as a single astronomy project called Galaxy Zoo, which launched in 2007 and invited volunteers to classify images of galaxies from the Sloane Digital Sky Survey, in order to better understand galaxy morphology. Zooniverse grew from this effort and has diversified into projects in the humanities and other science domains. Humanities projects include Anti-Slavery Manuscripts with Boston Public Library, and Shakespeare's World with the Folger Shakespeare Library and Oxford English Dictionary. Ecology projects include Snapshot Serengeti, Wildcam Gorongosa and Penguin Watch. Anyone can build their own project on the free Project Builder. Zooniverse, its researchers and volunteers frequently publish research papers using the data created by volunteers.

== See also ==
Comparison of crowdfunding services
Crowdmapping Examples
List of volunteer computing projects
List of grid computing projects
List of citizen science projects
List of free and open-source Android applications

== References ==