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

[Anders Pedersen]

The drone database by TBIJ, is a prime example of a journalism project
building an excellent dataset using a distributed data collection (though
not actually crowdsourced).

I found their methodology section really useful:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/pakistan-drone-strikes-the-methodology2/

Anders


On 9 May 2013 10:30, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Lucy!
>
> Russian wiki project - http://letopisi.ru/index.php/English_version -
> it's educational and cultural wiki project
>
> Russian e-Petitions website - https://www.roi.ru/ formally created by NGO
> (actually this NGO was selected by government).
>
>
>
> 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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