[School-of-data] Examples: Crowdsourcing and NGOs

Thu May 9 12:04:06 UTC 2013

Hi Dan,

Very much up for digging deeper into this - particularly if people on this
list have personal experience, or could put us in touch with people who do,
or what works and what doesn't.

I've also been digging around and Fair-Play Alliance's contracts monitor
also has a flag feature so that they can make the most of the many eyes of
the crowd to find things they should look into further. A similar approach
to the Guardian's MP expenses.

http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/documents/78140-ministerstvo-financii-sr-rezorty-statnej-spravy-viacstranny-zmluvny-vztah-ostatnymi-rezortmi-su-ministerstvo-dopravy-vystavby-a-regionalneho-rozvoja-sr-ico-30-416-094-ministerstvo-hospodarstva-sr-ico-00-686-832-ministerstvo-skolstva-vedy-vyskumu-a-sportu-sr-zmluva-o-uprave-vzajo#diskusia

Lucy

On 9 May 2013 11:41, dan mcquillan <d.mcquillan at gold.ac.uk> wrote:

>  this is a great area to look more closely at.
>
> it's quite hard for NGOs to do successful crowdsourcing. as
> neo-corporates, their approach usually feels like outsourcing (of
> immaterial labour) rather than something participatory.
>
> lucy: what's your approach to learning from the examples? might be good
> for wider debate?
>
> dan
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> On 08/05/13 21:50, Anna Kuliberda wrote:
>
> Hi Lucy,
> 3 examples comes quickly to mind, maybe there is something more...
>
> Polish example - "Open monuments" by Digital Centre Project Poland
> As they say on their project submission page<https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/-201c-open-monuments-201d-using-crowdsourcing-for-improving-open-cultural-heritage-data/>to the Knight Foundation news challenge:
> "We have been running the project since spring 2012 and have received
> broad interest from media, NGO’s and individuals, who are sharing with us
> data, information and photos of cultural heritage. In the Summer 2012, over
> 7000 people took part over the period of a month in a national
> crowdsourcing action focused on checking, updating and providing basic
> information about historical objects from the registry. This was a first
> crowdsourcing action of such scale in Poland."
>
> Serbia: An interesting project “What’s Your Doctor Like?” (in Serbian:
> http://www.kakavjedoktor.org/) and its not to happy story on UNDP blog
>
> Kosovo Innovation Lab (by UNICEF) did a small scale, but yet successful
> mapping of youth centres: http://kosovoinnovations.org/kosovoyouthmap/more about it also on the website where we're collecting transparency
> oriented CSO's usage of new technology in the Balkans:
> http://communityboostr.org/resource/crowd-sourcing-mapping-and-young-people-kosovo
>
> Of course there are tones of better or worse implementations of
> FixMyStreet or WhatDoTheyKnow, but this is probably a whole other story.
>
> as a curiosity I can add something what was done as a completely
> grass-rooted project of few crazy Poles who inventoried Polish
> governmental websites,<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al3dkW0tU6S5dEVlc3N5SnlkQzctRHlkMF9GX1NRamc#gid=0>it lookls like something way better then what any public catalogue has, but
> I don't know how complete it is and whether it was used by anybody yet.
>
> cheers,
> Anna
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> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Natalia Mazotte <ncortezrj at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Lucy,
>>
>>  Could be from Brazil? We had this nice project called "Proprietários do
>> Brasil" (take a look at the crowdsourcing campaign<http://catarse.me/pt/portalproprietariosdobrasil>), whose
>> goal is to reveal the connections among the largest companies operating in
>> the country and public investments. The NGO responsible for this project is
>> the "Instituto Mais Democracia", if you need to talk to someone there, I
>> can send you the contacts.
>>
>>  Best wishes,
>> Natália.
>>
>> 2013/5/8 Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>>
>>>  Good evening folks, (apologies for cross-post)
>>>
>>>  I am looking for a couple of examples (both successful and
>>> non-successful) of crowdsourcing projects done by NGOs as case studies.
>>>
>>>  Does anyone have any good examples we might be able to learn from?
>>>
>>>  Many thanks,
>>>
>>>  Lucy
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