Shadrock Roberts from USAID’s GeoCenter describes how crowdsourced data was leveraged for the Development Credit Authority at the 4th International Conference of Crisis Mapping (ICCM), offering important lessons learned for government institutions who want to work with crowdsourced information.
Video of the Week: Crowdsourcing at USAID: An Example for Aid Transparency & Open Data
Posted by Impact Blog Team on Monday, January 14th 2013
Tags:Crisis Mappers · Crowdsourcing · Development Credit Authority · GeoCenter · Geospatial Analysis · ICCM · Open Data · Shadrock Roberts · Video of the Week
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Great to see Shadrock’s video highlighted here!~ However, the conference name is: The International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM): http://www.crisismappers.net/
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Thanks, Jen!