期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-4333
电子版ISSN：0976-8491
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：54-56
语种：English
出版社：Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要：Crowdsourcing is an online engagement of large number of people to solve a problem/issue collectively. Wikipedia and Open Street Map (OSM) are good examples of crowd sourced work, where huge amount of useful information has been created by the public and not by any single company or organization. Crowdsourcing has the potential to help the citizens or masses to provide real time accurate information to the administration/government or other related organizations so that an issue/crisis can be solved. Crowdsourcing can help in environmental monitoring, public health mapping, monitor government projects, human rights monitoring, citizenbased election observation, nonviolent protests, disaster response and crisis mapping. Earlier the public were mere spectators but crowdsourcing can convert them to sensors so that they can collect useful information (text, images, locations, video files) and send it to the concerned organization This paper reviews Ushahidi an open-source platform with the help of which a crowdsource website can be created and information from web, email, SMS and twitter etc can be collected, managed and visualized in a map on a common platform in real time and with least resources.
