“This massive shift in the increasing role of crowdsourcing across multiple industries, platforms, and approaches to integrating “Big Data” into the current standards of consuming media and reacting to crises presents both significant challenges and important opportunities. Yet rigorous, data-driven research necessary to shed insights on this revolution in information is lagging. The purpose of Internews’s new CrowdGlobe initiative is to encourage and facilitate empirical research on the nature and impact of crowdsourced data—particularly geo-referenced data.”

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