Name: Scribd
Reference: http://www.scribd.com
Need to Act?
Scribd offers a lot of cool social publishing features for the documents that are published, and for collections that users can make, and that can be shared.
The service is offered free of charge.
Description
Scribd is the largest social publishing and reading site in the world. It makes it incredibly simple for anyone to share and discover informative, entertaining and original written content on the web and mobile devices.
Scribd's vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people and organizations with the information and ideas that matter most to them.
Source: http://www.scribd.com/about
Media coverage: Time Special - Tech Pioneers: 10 Start-ups that will change your life (Sept. 2010)
Availability
Available globally with some extra services (selling of documents) restricted to the North American market.
Call to Action - #ACT4SDGs
Scribd offers social publishing services that are part of a global to local social publishing infrastructure, and could become (an essential) part of a lifelong learning (social reading) experience for all. These services have network effects and monopoly risks (in a niche). Some may argue that for this reason the services should/could be offered in a public-private partnership arrangements, or that some measures are desirable to prevent commercial providers exploiting their monopoly position.
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- Actant Dictionary
- Actor Atlas
- Appropedia
- Blog - #crg4VSR
- Carbonn Climate Registry
- Citeulike
- Constraint Dictionary
- Country Crop Knowledge Bank
- Entity Dictionary
- EuroVoc
- Geohive
- Global Design Database
- IATI Datastore
- IATI Registry
- Indicator Dictionary
- Interaction Dictionary
- Online content and encyclopedia gaps
- Plantwise Knowledge Bank
- SCP Clearinghouse (Sustainable Consumption and Production)
- Scribd
- Social capital wiki
- United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS)
- Wiki
- World wide web
See the comment at http://lnkd.in/_wsnA3
Jan Goossenaerts
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Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki