Citizens' Reports: A Guide to Crowdsourcing Websites in Latin America
Citizens' Reports: A Guide to Crowdsourcing Websites in Latin America
"From elections in Brazil to mapping power in Chile to a stand-in for Wikipedia in the United States, journalists throughout the Americas are using crowdsourcing to cover the news," writes Summer Harlow of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, referring to AS/COA Online's recent article on Latin American crowdsourcing.
From elections in Brazil to mapping power in Chile to a stand-in for Wikipedia in the United States, journalists throughout the Americas are using crowdsourcing to cover the news. The Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) noted that crowdsourcing, or turning to a large group of citizens to perform a task that normally would be done by an individual, has "become a popular method for citizen participation" that allows "users to report crimes anonymously...due in part to violence against witnesses and journalists."
The AS/COA has compiled a list of crowdsourcing websites across Latin America...
