TY - GEN
T1 - Scalable crisis relief
T2 - 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010
AU - Hester, Vaughn
AU - Shaw, Aaron
AU - Biewald, Lukas
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Crowdsourced crisis response harnesses distributed networks of humans in combination with information and communication technology (ICT) to create scalable, flexible and rapid communication systems that promote well-being, survival, and recovery during the acute phase of an emergency. In this paper, we analyze a recent experience in which CrowdFlower conducted crowdsourced translation, categorization and geo-tagging for SMS-based reporting as part of Mission 4636 after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. We discuss CrowdFlower's approach to this task, lessons learned from the experience, and opportunities to generalize the techniques and technologies involved for other ICT for development (ICTD) applications. We find that CrowdFlower's most significant contribution to Mission 4636 and to the broader field of crowdsourced crisis relief lies in the flexible, scalable nature of the pool of earthquake survivors, volunteers, workers, and machines that the organization engaged during the emergency response efforts.
AB - Crowdsourced crisis response harnesses distributed networks of humans in combination with information and communication technology (ICT) to create scalable, flexible and rapid communication systems that promote well-being, survival, and recovery during the acute phase of an emergency. In this paper, we analyze a recent experience in which CrowdFlower conducted crowdsourced translation, categorization and geo-tagging for SMS-based reporting as part of Mission 4636 after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. We discuss CrowdFlower's approach to this task, lessons learned from the experience, and opportunities to generalize the techniques and technologies involved for other ICT for development (ICTD) applications. We find that CrowdFlower's most significant contribution to Mission 4636 and to the broader field of crowdsourced crisis relief lies in the flexible, scalable nature of the pool of earthquake survivors, volunteers, workers, and machines that the organization engaged during the emergency response efforts.
KW - Crisis response
KW - Crowdsourcing
KW - Development
KW - Geolocation
KW - Haiti
KW - Human computation
KW - ICTD
KW - Translation
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U2 - 10.1145/1926180.1926199
DO - 10.1145/1926180.1926199
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952325377
SN - 9781450304733
T3 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010
BT - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010
Y2 - 17 December 2010 through 18 December 2010
ER -