Time-Critical Crowdsourcing for Social Mobilization and Crowd-Solving












15 responses to “Time-Critical Crowdsourcing for Social Mobilization and Crowd-Solving

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  2. I think it might be interesting to use the pyramid scheme to incentivize training as well. Sort of a buddy system for those starting out as well. Similar to a Stackoverflow points system, meaning people get badges for answer questions. This already exists in OpenStreetMap (http://help.openstreetmap.org/), but not specifically to CrisisMapping it could help the already existing volunteers be more effective.

    I think the concern about going against the spirit of volunteerism is interesting. Where it is true individuals don’t get paid for their time digitizing, geolocating, translating, sometimes these activities do lead to paid jobs, do they not? I’m not suggesting directly paying people, I think funding lacks for that and also potentially increases the changes of gaming the system. Though maybe there is something that can be done beyond “digital candy.” Perhaps partnership with an online bookseller or something similar. Though would that change the entire dynamic of the teams already working.

    • Thanks Kate, very good points, eg, volunteerism leading to jobs. I’ve written several letters of recommendation for outstanding SBTF volunteers, for example. Interesting thought re online bookseller!

  3. This is a great topic and definitely very important. I think it would be helpful if incentives were aligned to individual needs and interests instead of a broad-based approach. It might be helpful to directly engage in conversation with the SBTF volunteers, through a survey perhaps, and directly ask them what they are looking for. Questions like why they joined in the first place, what motivates them, how they expected to benefit/ be rewarded, are their expectations being met, etc. The answers might not be similar and identifying these different individual expectations and priorities might help design an array of incentives catering to different kinds of volunteer needs. Tedious process but worth a try maybe?

  4. Hi Patrick, after reshuffling my email inbox I discovered I hadn’t yet read this one. The challenge fascinated me in how the team achieved the miraculous time so the article was quite enlightening!
    Certainly a groundbreaking example for social media utilisation but i guess that depends on how they spread the message not so much the reward model
    My immediate thought was more to how such a system could be utilised for catching criminals, identifying situations etc where rewards are posted.
    Some security concerns, but a model might be devised.
    Cheers Dave

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  8. “recursive incentive mechanism” and enrollment for benefits on debit cards – a great future 🙂

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