Crowdsourcing 의 사용

이 기사는 Help Me Help 라는 서비스에 관한 기사입니다. 이 서비스는 하와이 대학교 학생들에 의해 만들어진 서비스인데 긴급 상황에 좀 더 빠르게 대처할 수 있도록 돕는것이 목표라고 합니다. Help Me Help 는 크라우드소싱(crowdsourcing), 모바일 앱, 그리고 웹 서비스를 이용해 전문가들과 일반인들이재난이 일어난 곳의 상황을 실시간으로 업데이트 할 수 있게 해줍니다. 2010년 아이티 대지진 때도비슷한 서비스인 Ushahidi 를 통해 구조 작업이 훨씬 수월하게 이뤄질 수 있었습니다. 이 기사를 통해 crowdsourcing 이란 개념을 알 수 있는데요. Crowdsourcing 이란 많은 사람들(대중)의 힘을 통하여 어떤 문제를 해결하거나 목적을 이루는 것이라고 보면 될 거 같습니다. 인터넷과SNS 등의 발달로 인해crowdsourcing 은 정말 쉬워지고 있습니다. 또한 기업들도 crowdsourcing 을 점점 더 활용하고 있습니다. 대표적인 crowdsourcing 의 예는 위키피디아라고 할 수 있습니다. 전세계누구나 자신의 지식을 기부하여 방대한 온라인 백과 사전을 만들어 가는 것이죠. 앞으로 crowdsourcing 이 어떤 변화를 가져올 지 궁금합니다.

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Help Me Help Uses Crowdsourcing To Make Disaster Response More Efficient

by Frederic Lardinois|July 5, 2013

Help Me Help wants to make it easier for emergency responders to get a full picture of the situation after a disaster happens. The service combines crowdsourcing, a smartphone app and web service that allows trained professionals and civilians to mark up a map in real time with the location and photos of downed power lines, damaged structures, fires, road obstructions and other hazards.

Help Me Help was developed by a group of students at the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Team Poli’Ahu, as the group calls itself, will represent the U.S. in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup student technology competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, next week.

The original idea behind the project was to track invasive species in a number of Hawaiian state and national parks. As Help Me Help’s Mike Purvis told me last month, the team quickly decided that it could also apply the technology it developed for this project to a larger range of problems.

The team believes that its service can provide the situational awareness to help emergency responders respond more efficiently when there are disasters. Currently, organizations like theCivil Defense in Hawaii often still track this data by using paper maps, magnets and dry-erase boards. Currently, disaster reports are often fragmented and distributed across many forms of media, the team says.

Besides the mobile app, Help Me Help can also scrape content from Twitter into its database, which will make it even easier for people to submit updates.

As the team plans to somewhat customize the service for its clients, the customers can decide on whether they want to allow anybody to submit information or if they just want to restrict the ability to add content to a set of trusted and verified submitters.

Imagine Cup 2013

Help Me Help will present its service during the Imagine Cup finals next week. In total, Microsoft and its partners are making about $1 million in prizes available to the students that made it into the finals. In total, 69 countries will be represented at the event and the awards ceremony on Thursday July 8 will be hosted by Doctor Who’s Matt Smith.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/04/help-me-help-wants-to-make-emergency-response-during-disasters-more-efficient/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews