Tag: Crowdsourcing

  • Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

    Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com If you’ve ever had trou­ble explain­ing the con­cept of “big data” to some­one—or had trou­ble wrap­ping your brain around the buzz­word your­self—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demon­strate big data? It’s the some­what abstract,… http://flpbd.it/okN2Z Related articles How…

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  • Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences Maxiom Group Blog

    Please read my latest blog post Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences on the Maxiom Group blog. Related articles NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools (medcitynews.com) Speed dating for startups: NYC and Health 2.0 pair health organizations with entrepreneurs [GigaOM] (gigaom.com) Crowd Sourcing: The Time Has Come (pharmexec.com) How To…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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  • Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

    via www.ushahidi.com My friend Bill told me about this company which uses crowdsourcing to address crisis situations in developing countries. Related articles Ushahidi at Five (ushahidi.com) Why Ushahidi Should Embrace Open Data (irevolution.net) 5 Innovative Ways to Crowdsource Better Governance (wamda.com) Kenyan election bloggers become cyber-activism pioneers (rawstory.com) Jakarta Floods – Social Media Landscape in…

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