Within the possible applications of crowdsourcing, I am currently researching about its use for communicating and reporting crimes. This research is allowing me to observe the evolution of different platforms, evolution that in some cases implies the abandonment of the crowd to draw upon the AI.
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10 lessons from Conficker Working Group
The Conficker Working Group (C.W.G.) work allowed to study and analyze the use of collective intelligence as a way to fight against certain types of malware. In this post I summarize some of the lessons learned thanks to their experience, which are applicable to collective intelligence initiatives that involve large groups of people.
Collective Intelligence Vs Malware: Conficker Working group
Crowdsourcing can be applied in many and diferent areas. One of these, that is getting more importance ultimately because how it affects the day to day of people, is cibersecurity. Also in this area, crowdsourcing, although unconscientenly, has been used to fight against malware.
Using Collective Intelligence in the fight against crime (I)
Collective Intelligence can be used in many areas in different ways: analyzing or generating new information, solving problems, etc. Also in the fight against crime Collective Intelligence and crowdsourcing can be a valuable resource.
When the crowd trolls
In many cases, crowdsourcing initiatives don’t work as it should. But it’s not the promoter’s fault nor because the circumstances. Sometimes it’s just that the crowd (or an important part of it) decides not to help but boycotting the initiatives with the most crazy results.
Crowdfunding continues evolving
The evolution of crowdsourcing is unstoppable. Once has become popular in some sector, continues to advance to another. In the case of crowdfunding, this evolution, because their use is increasingly widespread, is faster. In this case I analyze a type of crowdfunding that, although popular and common in the US, is relatively new in Spain.