Abstract Wreckage searching can be crowdsourced? In March 2014, four days after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, DigitalGlobe, an American satellite mapping company, set up Tomnod, a crowd-sourcing initiative, encouraging internet users to scan and tag images of more than 1200 mi2 of ocean to locate the missing plane. Each online volunteer was given some satellite images and directions to tag any suspicious hints, floating objects or airplane wreckage. An algorithm would tally all of the tags, note any areas of the ocean that consistently attracted attention and then pass over the findings to governments involved in the rescue efforts. Unexpectedly 25,000 users signed up within a single day, crashing the website.


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    Title :

    Outsourcing and Crowdsourcing—From Building All-Round Capabilities to Outsourcing and Crowdsourcing


    Contributors:
    Zhu, Xiaoming (author) / Song, Bingying (author) / Ni, Yingzi (author) / Ren, Yifan (author) / Li, Rui (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-01-01


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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