Créer une carte | BatchGeo. Asian firms well-poised for internal crowdsourcing. The high uptake of mobile devices and social media among Asian workers mean companies in the region are well-positioned to carry out crowdsourcing internally to make better business decisions. Clear and firm strategies and rules are necessary to ensure the process does not devolve into a hindrance though, industry watchers say.
Scott Stewart, research director at ITNewcom, said crowdsourcing shares certain similarities with the rise in mobility in that it is user-driven and a casual experience built on short bursts of attention, social incentives, and rapid yet varied feedback. These aspects get people "hooked" on the experience without them even realizing, he said. Given Asia's preoccupation with smartphones and tablets and how mobility fuels social networking, Stewart expects crowdsourcing will see considerable uptake among companies in Asia-Pacific. McKinsey, too, has used internal crowdsourcing to gather ideas on user requirements for choosing IT tools, he shared. Crowdsourced map shows China's pollution hotspots. A crowdsourced mapping project, called Danger Maps, indicates pollution hotspots in China and is now expanding to cover other themes such as missing people and child abuse.
According to Bloomberg on Thursday, the Web site was started by netizen Liu Chunlei last year, to enable others to look up sites such as toxic-waste treatment facilities, oil refineries and power plants. Liu has also plotted about 6,000 pollution sources based on government data and user input on Baidu Map--China's version of Google Maps. The site taps on the knowledge of China's 564 million Internet users to draw attention to environmental risks. Specifically, the site Usahidi.com, created in 2008 to track post-election violence in Kenya and Web sites tracking radiation after the Fukishima nuclear disasters inspired Liu's move. Liu created Danger Maps after realizing the Shanghai apartment he bought in 2007 was near a landfill, something he was not informed of when negotiating the purchase. Ushahidi. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Ushahidi ("témoin" en Swahili) est un site internet créé après la crise au Kenya en 2007 à la suite de l'élection présidentielle, pour collecter les témoignages de violence envoyés par email et SMS, et les placer sur Google Maps[1].
C'est aussi le nom du logiciel open source développé pour ce site, qui a été amélioré depuis, rendu convivial, et utilisé pour nombre de projets similaires. Ushahidi utilise le concept de crowdsourcing au service de la cartographie sociale, combinaison d'activisme social, de journalisme citoyen et d'information géographique. Ushahidi fournit un mécanisme à un observateur local pour soumettre un rapport via son téléphone mobile ou internet, générant une archive temporelle et géospatiale de l'évènement.
Composants[modifier | modifier le code] Ushahidi utilise SwiftRiver, une plateforme libre et open source qui aide à extraire un sens d'une masse d'informations dans un laps de temps très court. Ce site a été utilisé : Welcome to the Ushahidi wiki! - Community Wiki - Ushahidi.