We all know that the most successful and easy to recognize model of crowdsourcing in the world is Wikipedia. For me, Wikipedia isn’t the big move of technology but the exciting move of human belief. Everybody is an expert on their field and we don’t need to ask, pay and wait for an answer of real expert. We can ask and build an encyclopedia for ourselves. Free doesn’t mean inaccurate. Some researcher said Wikipedia as correct as Britannica (old model).
It isn’t easy at all to apply crowdsourcing. Your project need to divide to small independent modules that everybody can give you a hand to complete it. The most important factor of this process that everybody need to get their joyful as a reward when they do it. So, online seems the best environment for Crowdsourcing.
But when I went out the city with my family last weekend, I know I was wrong. VOV Giao Thong (a radio channel with nearly real-time traffic status update) taught me a lesson of offline Croudsourcing. Drivers will call to the call-center when they stuck on the road or they see an accident. The reporter will collect status from many drivers in the city and broadcast this information to other drivers.
“Vietnamese is (only?) good at war.” Right or Wrong, I don’t know. Definitely I hate war, but we’re fighting the high traffic, the poverty, the diseases… and why don’t we use the same method we did with high traffic? The story of Crowdsourcing isn’t about online/offline like I thought, is about the right objective, the right way to communicated and get thing done.
(pix courtesy of tricky – Under Creative Commons License)
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