[okfn-labs] Crowdcrafting + reference lists = crowdsource lists of stuff?

[Lucy Chambers]

I think this is a fantastic idea, Jonathan and from my experience working
with NGOs, this would be super useful.

For example, when I was in Romania, many organisations were of the opinion
that the only way to get the information they required was not to submit a
Freedom of Information request but to talk to individuals specifically, but
the government did not regularly publish lists of these people with their
contact information. And yet, NGOs waste many hours spreading these details
by word of mouth...

Similarly, when I interned in Ukraine, I was handed off from person to
person in a wild goose chase whenever I called a Ministry...

Perhaps, starting with a list of ministries / public bodies and allowing
people to put in who they contacted for what and how they got hold of them
would be a possible project?

My 2cts - would love to try something like this...

Lucy







On 22 February 2013 16:02, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Emanuil Tolev <emanuil at cottagelabs.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> E.g.: I want to make a list of all organisations which are helping
>> animals in Bulgaria. Do I:
>>
>> 2/ use mechanical turk - heh, heh :). Nope. (Sorry, just my gut reaction.)
>>     -- can I target people by location in m. turk? (There's no point in
>> having US-based m. turks fishing in Google for whatever they can find in
>> English. I'm unlikely to get good suggestions for getting the information -
>> they have to move on to the next task, most don't care about my project.)
>>
>
> Do you need people who live in Bulgaria, who speak Bulgarian, or a
> familiar with present day Bulgarian culture?  They are, as I'm sure you're
> aware, three different things.
>
> MTurk allows you to set arbitrary qualifications for workers.  I suspect
> you'd really want language speakers, but one of the standard qualifications
> is Locale
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI/ApiReference_LocaleDataStructureArticle.html
> so you can restrict workers based on that.
> You can also create tests for your own custom qualifications (can tell
> cats from dogs, etc).
>
> Tom
>
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