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January 14th 2012

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Can DHL Crowdsource Package Delivery?

What if package delivery could be crowdsourced?

That’s the question DHL is going to test out shortly. Based on a program created by the students at the University of Potsdam’s HPI School of Design Thinking, it takes advantage of the increasing ubiquity of location aware smartphones to tap people who are already commuting through the routes a package needs to take.

Full Story: Triple Pundit

Posted at 6:07pm and tagged with: crowdsouring, tech, technology,.

Can DHL Crowdsource Package Delivery? What if package delivery could be crowdsourced? That’s the question DHL is going to test out shortly. Based on a program created by the students at the University of Potsdam’s HPI School of Design Thinking, it takes advantage of the increasing ubiquity of location aware smartphones to tap people who are already commuting through the routes a package needs to take. Full Story: Triple Pundit
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    Also known as……drug runners.
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    touching my delivery but sounds cool.
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    INTERESTING APPLICATION OF CROWD SOURCING. emergentfutures:
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  7. mischiefgoblin said: That would be amazing…but no.
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    an incredible idea, although I think many people would be too worried about people just stealing
  13. thebusinessofbusiness reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
    same time there would e possibility...outsource your purchases in
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    Interesting, but how can this
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