Crowdsourcing

Notes:

• Widespread access to information and public data facilitates the identification of problems, development of solutions, and dissemination of results
• Science has been affected by using distributed and “citizen science” to solve scientific problems
• Citizen science is a scientific research conducted in whole or part by distributed individuals, many of whom may not be scientists, who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices

Actions:

• CompSci has 150 principles students. Describe a crowdsource idea and how you might initiate it in our environment?
  • A crowdsource idea that could work with this group is creating an interactive classroom in which students could contribute individual lines of code for a certain program. This could be initiated using collaborative platforms such as Google services.
• What about Del Norte crowdsourcing? Could your final project be better with crowdsourcing?
  • You could survey Del Norte students about their academic workload, mental health, etc. to gather more data for a final project. My final project could be better with crowdsourcing because we could take input from other students and integrate it into our website.