News Challenge - How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation? - Inquisite: empowering self-assembled groups to effortlessly collaborate to investigate the questions that interest them.

"Using practices born of social networking, GitHub and Kickstarter have fundamentally transformed how software development and fund-raising work. Inquisite does the same for collaborative research by coupling an open sharing, visualization and publishing platform to mobile data gathering tools. To create projects on Inquisite, researchers contribute source material – images, audio, video, documents, even quantitative data – to a hub. Users can then watch, or join, the effort to analyze, contextualize, discuss and interpret this material. Inquisite is for people creating or collecting data - be they biologists, journalists, citizen scientists, activists, or historians – who want to open their research to new and diverse communities ..."