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SWIFT RIVERVeracity Blues - The Trouble with Crowdsourcing

ICCM2010

An Ushahidi Initiative

Friday, October 1, 2010

Would you trust these guys?


These guys?


CROWDSOURCERY: FORBIDDEN, OCCULT, DANGEROUS

What does the crowd know? I’m the expert.




Why listen to anyone else? I’m the expert.




Why listen to anyone else? I’m the expert.

Your opinion is useful, if it agrees with my funding.


FOOTBALL VS PHILANTHROPY

Coach + Team + Objective = FTW


FOOTBALL VS PHILANTHROPY

Arrogance + Ignorance + Assumptions = WTF?


Traditional Philanthropists


THIS IS A PROBLEM

Football plays assume a lot.

Philanthropy affects people’s lives.

There will always be more that you don’t know.

The crowd is willing to be your resource, they want to help you help them. (not a Jerry McGuire reference I promise)


CHAOS THEORY

Philanthropy is not fully deterministic

No guaranteed results

The Butterfly Effect (Follow @aplusk!!!)

Chaos is always present

Observing more, gives you a better understanding of the full system.


USE THE CROWD


USE THE CROWD

To Inform Decisions

To Supplement Labor

To Gauge Public Sentiment

To Empower Citizens


FOLKSONOMIC TRIAGE

Use what the crowd tells you to verify what individuals in the crowd are saying

Location can validate


FOLKSONOMIC TRIAGE



So can time, user history, social graph


FOLKSONOMIC TRIAGE



So can time, user history, social graph

Learn from success, Learn from mistakes




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