{"id":97,"date":"2012-10-20T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/?p=97"},"modified":"2013-03-30T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T19:13:03","slug":"sourcemaps-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/2012\/10\/20\/sourcemaps-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"COMM 101 &#8211; 20\/10\/2012 &#8211; Sourcemap\u2019s Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #b7cdf2;\">Cl\u00e9ment Mallet\u2019s post \u201c<strong><a title=\"Cl\u00e9ment's Post\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/clementmallet\/2012\/10\/08\/sourcemap\" target=\"_blank\">Sourcemap, Where things come from.<\/a><\/strong>\u201d introduced me to a very interesting tool. <strong><a title=\"Official website\" href=\"http:\/\/sourcemap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sourcemap<\/a><\/strong> is an online platform developed by Leonardo Bonanni from the MIT Media Lab. It is meant to map in an intuitive and design way <strong>supply chains<\/strong> and <strong>environmental footprints<\/strong> of products. It is also a social network of individuals and businesses willing to share, for the sake of transparency, information about how things are produced. A barcode technology has even been developed allowing smart-phones to scan sourcing information. In an <strong><a title=\"Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2011\/08\/29\/products_carbon_footprints_easier_to_track_with_mit_grads_start_up\" target=\"_blank\">article from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/strong>, Bonanni also announced his wish to extend information beyond carbon measures to water usage, toxic materials uses and releases, landscapes modifications (such as forests turned into farmland), and measures of worker quality of life. <strong>Wow!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqvimeo\" style=\"width:400px;height:300px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"vvq-97-vimeo-1\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/36053523?title=1&#038;byline=1&#038;portrait=0&#038;fullscreen=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/36053523\">http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/36053523<\/a><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #b7cdf2;\">As Cl\u00e9ment pointed it out; since Sourcemap is a crowdsourced product, it faces the issue of inaccurate information. On the other hand, without using <strong>crowdsourcing<\/strong>, Sourcemap could never pretend to gather the amount of information it requires to develop into the <em>revolutionary<\/em> data base it ought to be. Through its signing-up procedure, Sourcemap has taken initiatives to reduce misinformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #b7cdf2;\">What I like most about Sourcemap is how it fulfills the needs of a growing share of responsible consumers and rides the wave of sustainability in an innovative way that empowers them. It creates incentives for businesses to develop towards a more social and eco-friendly way of producing and selling. It is also an interesting tool for enterprises to manage supply chains and strengthen direct relationships with customers. <strong>Who knows, we might see more successful Direct Business Model stories (\u00e0 la Dell) develop thanks to Sourcemap?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cl\u00e9ment Mallet\u2019s post \u201cSourcemap, Where things come from.\u201d introduced me to a very interesting tool. Sourcemap is an online platform developed by Leonardo Bonanni from the MIT Media Lab. It is meant to map in an intuitive and design way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/2012\/10\/20\/sourcemaps-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8073,5109,399730,578650,2137,578657,164574,7041,578648,578649,7166,205,5353],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carbon","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-direct-business-model","tag-environmental-footprint","tag-mapping","tag-online-platform","tag-relationship","tag-social-responsibility","tag-sourcemap","tag-sourcing","tag-supply-chain","tag-sustainability","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vincentperraud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}