Sunday, May 3, 2009

Crowd sourced information

Crowd sourced information is a concept I recently learned about listending to a TedTalk. This is an idea that is worth exploring - filtering information from the 'crowd' e.g. text messages people send, to gather intelligence about what's going on out there. Often, agencies are overwhelmed by the amount of information that is out there and important things are missed.

I'm interested in seeing if others think we can expand on this concept in the New Zealand context and how this might happen. Check out this short TedTalk video.

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