http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/08/03/academia-in-the-fore-crowdsourcing-and-disaster-management/ The Humanities And Technology Camp Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:02:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/08/03/academia-in-the-fore-crowdsourcing-and-disaster-management/#comment-49 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:32:33 +0000 http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/?p=198#comment-49 In my case I found that interacting with new and old media has had an effect in stimulating debate and making the research on the Mari explosion more open and immediate by all – something I am very happy about. At the same time, in crude academic career terms, those who worked on creative commons and new platforms got nothing out of it. No citations, no impact in assessing our careers. I would like to see how people think they can link crowd-sourcing with also giving credit where is due in order for careers not to suffer.

]]> http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/08/03/academia-in-the-fore-crowdsourcing-and-disaster-management/#comment-48 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:11:24 +0000 http://cyprus2011.thatcamp.org/?p=198#comment-48 I share a lot of your concerns. There is a real contradiction between traditional academic credit requirements and the need for information to be put to immediate use. In any case I think we could do worse than acquaint ourselves with some of the tools that could help us put together some sort of crisis management infrastructure. I think it is especially interesting to think about how crowdsourcing could work specifically in/for Cyprus. Perhaps one place to start would be to compare other examples to the radiation data Safecast you mentioned. Here’s another one: a UK initiative tracking various service/funding cuts using the Ushahidi platform [ wherearethecuts.org/ ]

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