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The [https://hiu.state.gov/Pages/Home.aspx Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU)], a division within the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the U.S. Department of State, is working to increase the availability of spatial data in areas experiencing humanitarian emergencies. Built from a crowdsourcing model, the new <b>"[https://hiu.state.gov/ittc/ittc.aspx Imagery to the Crowd]"</b> process publishes high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, purchased by the Unites States Government, in a web-based format that can be easily mapped by volunteers. The digital map data generated by the volunteers are stored in a database maintained by [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap (OSM)], a UK-registered non-profit foundation, under a license that ensures the data are freely available and open for a range of uses.<br><br>Inspired by the success of the OSM mapping effort after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Imagery to the Crowd process harnesses the combined power of satellite imagery and the volunteer mapping community to help aid agencies provide informed and effective humanitarian assistance, and plan recovery and development activities.The HIU partners with the [http://hot.openstreetmap.org Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)] on many of the Imagery to the Crowd projects. HOT provides volunteer support and access to its micro-tasking platform, the [http://tasks.hotosm.org OSM Tasking Manager], which coordinates volunteer efforts by breaking down large mapping tasks into smaller areas that can be digitized in 45-60 minutes.<br><br>Click [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfDhya2FQ8 here] for a 5-minute Ignite Talk about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVfDhya2FQ8 Imagery to the Crowd]. |
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Revision as of 21:28, 14 August 2013
United States Federal Government
Department of State
Virtual Student Foreign Service crowd-work and eIntern program for college students [1]
State Department Internal CrowdWork Platform The Office of eDiplomacy is developing an internal crowdsourcing platform that will facilitate collaborative work worldwide. Any office or mission will be able to post tasks online and any State Department employee with the requisite skills will be able to respond and complete the task. This creates an internal marketplace for foreign affairs work and matches State Department opportunities and requirements with untapped skills and experience. The platform is currently under development with an anticipated launch in December 2013. This crowd-work platform will be developed as part of an innovation toolkit for the U.S. Government. This project is developed through a partnership between the State Department office of eDiplomacy,[2] the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the General Services Administration and the State Department Office of the Director General. The open source version of this platform is called Midas and can be found on GitHub.
Secretary’s Sounding Board Internal ideation tool for employees to suggest improvements to the Department.
Imagery to the Crowd
The Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU), a division within the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the U.S. Department of State, is working to increase the availability of spatial data in areas experiencing humanitarian emergencies. Built from a crowdsourcing model, the new "Imagery to the Crowd" process publishes high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, purchased by the Unites States Government, in a web-based format that can be easily mapped by volunteers. The digital map data generated by the volunteers are stored in a database maintained by OpenStreetMap (OSM), a UK-registered non-profit foundation, under a license that ensures the data are freely available and open for a range of uses.
Inspired by the success of the OSM mapping effort after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Imagery to the Crowd process harnesses the combined power of satellite imagery and the volunteer mapping community to help aid agencies provide informed and effective humanitarian assistance, and plan recovery and development activities.The HIU partners with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on many of the Imagery to the Crowd projects. HOT provides volunteer support and access to its micro-tasking platform, the OSM Tasking Manager, which coordinates volunteer efforts by breaking down large mapping tasks into smaller areas that can be digitized in 45-60 minutes.
Click here for a 5-minute Ignite Talk about Imagery to the Crowd.
USAID
In June 2012, USAID launched the Agency’s first-ever crowdsourcing initiative to pinpoint the location of USAID Development Credit Authority (DCA) loan data and make the dataset publicly available. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving process whereby tasks are outsourced to a network of people known as “the crowd.”
The engagement of the Crowd was an innovative way to process data and increase the transparency of the Agency. Visualizing where USAID enhances the capacity of the private sector can signal new areas for potential collaboration with host countries, researchers, development organizations, and the public. A case study explains the organizational, legal, and technical steps behind making these data open. DCA Data Cleanup Crowdwork Project
Department of Health and Human Services
Microtasking is a way for CDC staff to post unclassified, one-minute to one-day long (micro)tasks that can be solved by undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate student volunteers. This expands the agency’s workforce and relieves staff to focus on in-depth assignments. In return, universities can offer students eager for experience a small window into government work. This allows students to bring fresh ideas to smaller projects and they can add “micro-volunteering for CDC” to their résumé. CDC crowd-work and eIntern Program:
Environmental Protection Agency
Pilot project launched by the Administrator’s office called Skills Marketplace allowing micro-details to other offices and projects.[3]
General Services Agency
Open opportunities Part of GSA's Digital Services Innovation Center, Open Opportunities include micro/macro-tasking, 20% details and full-time detail opportunities for GSA employees within GSA.
Challenge.gov is an online challenge platform administered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in partnership with ChallengePost that empowers the U.S. Government and the public to bring the best ideas and top talent to bear on our nation’s most pressing challenges. This platform is the latest milestone in the Administration’s commitment to use prizes and challenges to promote innovation.
Transportation Safety Administration
Idea Factory empowers the Transportation Security Administration’s large and dispersed workforce to submit and collaborate on innovative ideas to improve TSA and keep the nation’s transportation systems secure.
Smithsonian Institution
Digital Volunteers: Crowd-work platform for transcribing historical documents
eMammal: Crowdsourcing collection of images and data on N American mammal populations[4] [5]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Remember Me: Project to post 1100 pictures of children displaced during the Jewish Holocaust to identify these children, piece together information about their wartime and postwar experiences, and facilitate renewed connections among these young survivors, their families, and other individuals who were involved in their care during and after the war.
World Memory Project to digitize the records of victims of the Jewish Holocaust.