Paul Currion on the “crisis” of crowdsourcing in a crisis

 

Paul Currion (humanitarian.info) has started an excellent critique of crowdsourced information in crisis, responding to two excellent posts by Patrick Phillipe Meyer (iRevolution).

Instead of incestuously summarising here, I refer readers to Patrick’s original posts:

• Internews, Ushahidi and Communication in Crises
• Ushahidi: From Croudsourcing to Crowdfeeding

And then to Paul’s critique here:

• Correcting crowdsourcing in a crisis

As well as an HFP blog related plug here:

• The promise and peril of crowdsourcing crisis information

We hope Patrick replies. Updates to follow as they emerge.