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Libya, which has become a hotbed of violence amidst a revolt against leader Muammar Gaddafi, is largely closed off from foreign media outlets, meaning submissions from Libyan members of the “One...
Crowdsourcing works well when projects are focused and well targeted. Alive in Libya is a snapshot of a unique, historic moment. Crowdsourced documentary 18DaysInEgypt works on the same...
Fueled by the trend of crowdsourcing coupled with the interest in the movements that have succeeded in overthrowing autocrats - at least in Tunisia and Egypt - after decades of rule, the stories of...
Crowdsourced translation is not perfect, but it shows what can be achieved when humans and machines work together.
The Kickstarter campaign, “Libyan Youth in Revolution,” aims to raise $30,000 in one month. That money will go to Anderson’s bare necessities like food, shelter and protection as she ventures into...
Twitter is no replacement for the forward air controllers who have guided bombs from the ground since the Second World War. Canadian and U.S. forces now call these specialists Joint Terminal Attack...
Many activists in Egypt donated food and medical supplies to support the Libyan revolution in early 2011. As a result, volunteers set up and coordinated humanitarian convoys from major Egyptian cities to Tripoli. But these convoys faced two major problems. First, volunteers needed to know where the convoys were in order to communicate this to Libyan revolutionists so they could wait for the fleet at the border and escort them to Tripoli. Second, because these volunteers were headed into a war zone, their friends and family wanted to keep track of them to make sure they were safe. The solution? IntaFeen.com.
Thanks to the bravery of the public or the supporters of OneDayOnEarth.org. They've fearlessly let the world know about what's going on in Libya!
Crowdsourced solutions to data collection and processing are growing in many fields, including disaster risk management. As these solutions are adopted into the mainstream, deployments in conflict...
Social Media has accomplished a lot over the course of the last five years, but never before have news outlets been so open to crowdsourcing the news emanating from street protests like what we...
This is a big data problem that needs mass human intervention until the software can catch up. Moreover, crowdsourcing has proven to be a workable solution in many other projects and sectors....
Nonprofit organization Ushahidi, which allows anyone to gather distributed data via text, email or web and visualize it on an interactive map, this Thursday accepted the 2012 “Anvil of Freedom” award from Denver University’s Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media.
Senior writer C.J. Chivers (a former Marine) knows his way around battlefield munitions, but for six months he and other experts have been stumped trying to identify an unusual cluster bomb found...
Both abroad and at home, crowdsourcing can play into a virtuous feedback loop. As citizens increasingly engage and contribute their feedback via social media and other web technologies, our...
VTCs such as OpenStreetMap, CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Sahana and Ushahidi have contributed greatly to disaster management. VTCs have used SMS, social media and satellite imagery; built...
Like their Egyptian counterparts who crowdsourced volunteer convoys into Libya last year, young Iranians also organized caravans to bring relief to victims of the earthquake in the north of the...
Following the Arab Spring uprisings, social sites have increasingly provided a platform for citizen journalism, instantly transmitting unfiltered images of violence to the world at large....
In this discussion, Helena Puig Larrauri, Co-Founder of the Standby Task Force (SBTF) talked about the “Standby Task Force” a collection of volunteers that have started to create crisis maps that...
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