Crowdsourcing data - strategies, tools, and stories.

Outline

The idea of crowdsourcing - what and why. 5
- Wisdom of the Crowd
Key questions -
1. What data to collect?
2. Whom to collect from?
3. How to collect?
4. How to verify?
Stories - 20
1. Akshara Foundation.
  - Background -
    - 98% of children attend a primary school (and 85% attend a preschool), sadly, however, more than 50% of students in class 5 cannot read a class 2 text and more than 80% of students cannot do simple division in math.
    - creating a new, collective, model of impact between multiple agencies – public, private and governmental – to solve complex challenges in public education.
  - Need for data - understand the situation, make process transparent, hold authorities accountable.
  - What data - infrastructure, academic.
  - Tools - paper forms, IVR, OMR, web.
  - Verification - double entry, randomisation.
  - Cost
2. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Typhoon Haiyan
  - Background -
    - OpenStreetMap
    - bridge between the traditional Humanitarian Responders and the OpenStreetMap Community.
  - Need for data - preparing data before a crisis is better than panicking after it.
  - What data - geographic.
  - From whom - volunteers all over the world.
  - Tools - OpenStreetMap, GPS, Satellite imagery, Social media.
  - Verification - validation in the editors, moderation, communication channels.
Discussion. 20