 Applications of Crowdsourcing for Development and Disaster Response
Information Session Lead: Kate Chapman
Members: 13
Applications of Crowdsourcing for Development and Disaster Response Crowdsourcing is a process where distributed groups of people work together to complete a task. Examples of large crowdsourcing related platforms and projects include Amazon Mechanical Turk and Wikipedia. These methods of distributing and sharing tasks can also be strong methods for more detailed reporting for development projects, mapping vulnerable areas for disaster risk reduction, and helping direct aid in the response phase of a crisis. This panel includes experts and practitioners of varied crowdsourcing platforms and projects. During the panel the group will explore both successes and difficulties with the application of crowdsourcing. This panel will be designed as a discussion around what possibilities exist. Attendees will have a better understanding of how crowdsourcing might apply to their own projects and considerations to think about before applying these techniques. Leads: Kate Chapman & Emmanuel Kala Talking to the crowd in 7,000 languages - Robert Munro Verification: Methodology vs. Technology - Emmanuel Kala Crowdsourcing in Conflict Settings - Helena Puig Larrauri Engaging Communities in Grassroots Monitoring of Environments in Crisis - Shannon Dosemagen Collecting Base Data for Preparedness with OpenStreetMap - Kate Chapman Leveraging Crowdsourced mapping Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction - Abigail Baca Discussion ForumMembers (13)
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We are interested on getting information from croudsourcing about any disastaer, such as, floods, earthquakes, landslides, severe storms, fires, technological disasters, volcanic eruptions, humanitarian crisis, tsunamis...We are also interested on contacting to organizations (representatives of government agencies, multilateral organizations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, academia, community-based organisations and civil society) which (1) can provide information about the disaster and (2) can answer specific questionary that we are preparing to know the the impact anallysis of the specific cartographies prepared for any specific emergency event (user feedback...!!!