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On the edge of their seat…
So how do you keep a Kenyan govt accountable? By giving them the vote…or was it internet accountability? The cool thing about www.mzalendo.com is that it’s a watch-dog for the Kenyan parliament that could soon balloon into a site where … Continue reading
OpenIDEO
http://openideo.com. is a site set up by the IDEO design company. It creates a platform for the crowdsourcing of answers to important questions, some of them dealing with human security. Two of those to date have been “How might we be able … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological “dirty bombs”
Hey everyone, This is what I was planning on showing you guys during lecture today. Jré Crowdsourcing Security Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell … Continue reading
NowPublic SCAN
So truth be told, I can’t find the actual app that NowPublic labs developed but I found a slew of articles on the software. I haven’t worked there in quite a while so I am pleading ignorance to the current … Continue reading
Cool links from class
http://www.taylorowen.com/Articles/2003_Paradox.pdf http://www.humansecurityindex.org/?page_id=147 – Andrei
Crowdsourcing Aid as well as Eyes
So first off is a pretty general article that goes over some recent uses of crowdsourcing in Disaster Relief. http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/21/crowdsourcing-disaster-relief/ The first example is of http://oscargrantprotests.com/Ushahidi_Oakland/ which runs on the same platform as Ushahidi that we know from the readings. … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing Cellphones against chemical attacks
I found this article online about technology being developed to be implemented in cellphones in order to detect potentially dangerous chemicals in the air. Although it may seem to only stimulate a society that is fearful of terrorist attacks, I … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing the price of marijuana
courtesy of http://www.priceofweed.com/ I was sent this on my twitter feed, I’m not sure if you guys have seen it before. But here’s the link of the article it came from and . It’s a crowd sourcing website that shows the … Continue reading
Wikileaks: crowd-sourcing to open up governments
I chose Wikileaks.org as my submission for this week. It is a bit different from the other examples of crowd-sourcing in the readings and on the course blog, but absolutely pertinent. It relies on insiders all over the world, risking prison … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing…
My article for the week: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/crowdsourcing_million_heads.php Advantages of crowdsourcing – includes some cool case studies, and info for people who don’t know much about it. Enjoy 🙂 – Andrei
