Collective Intelligence 2012
Videos , presentations and full papers presented in Collective Intelligence 2012 conference at MIT are now online and available for downloading.
Five Ways Crowdsourcing Can Transform the Public Sphere
In the 19th century, British scholars convened to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Rather than catalog the entire language on their own, they turned to the English public to submit definitions
On Crime – Sourcing and Investigation – Sourcing
Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. Unfortunately, these very same techniques are increasingly being adopted by the criminal underground for nefarious purposes.
Livehoods: Using data from Social Media to Map Neighborhoods
A research project called Livehoods, from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, aims to shed some light on how people really inhabit their cities—and how this changes over time—by mapping data collected from 18 million Foursquare check-ins.
Re-Imagining the City in the Age of Social Media
Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people’s checkin patterns at places across the city, the researchers create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it.
Crowdsourcing Smart Cities
The Internet of Things can empower bottom-up community building, and it’s already here
The technological battle for Smart Cities; A. Townsend for WOBI
A. Townsend, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, talked in yesterday’s WOBI video about top-down and bottom-up smart city solutions.