Crowdsourcing Crowdfunding
TCrowdsourcing and crowdfunding are about connecting people at a local level to create businesses that will benefit communities. Although the world is operating more and more as one global community through social media, people rely on local communities for bare necessities.
One of crowdsourcing obtained was ‘Pulang mengundi’ - a word in Malay which means return home to vote. It is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from tradi6onal employees or suppliers.
In times of need (social or political), can social media movements like #pulangmengundi (crowdsourcing and crowdfunding) transportation to mobilise youth to vote) benefit communities?
This new culture of innovation, supported by crowdfunding for worthwhile projects, allows for idea collaboration and technological innovation for the greater good. Further, our increasingly mobile world population allows for people from anywhere, and with any background, to give their input on a project.
Social media and the internet has been a big supporter of social innovation over the past couple of years, witnessing the creation of powerful virtual communities dedicated to a particular cause or initiative.
We’ve seen the power of these communities in action, ranging from the Arab Spring and political uprisings and protests in the Middle East to animal-lovers intercepting a truck carrying 1500 dogs bound for a slaughterhouse in China. Social networks create a new kind of access, where individuals in disparate geographical areas can come together in pursuit of a particular goal. (Marom, D 2013)
In an era filled with fake news, what effect can this have on crowdsourced information?
It can be hard to know what is true online. Propaganda and misinformation have a much longer history than the internet, of course. But the rapid proliferation of “fake news” on social media, and its tendency to extend into mainstream news coverage can obscure the difference between credible information and inaccuracies.
Existing social networking sites like Facebook could set up a section of its site for people to engage in collaborative fact-checking and help combat the spread of fake news. People could see how different groups they’re connected to build and filter these arguments and filter the emotional content of aspects of those arguments.
It’s not yet clear whether crowdsourcing fact-checking is the best way to verify alternative facts, and even if so, whether our approach is the best way to manage the process. But in the end, getting people to engage in evidence-based reasoning can have benefits well beyond identifying specific instances of “fake news” – it can teach users the critical thinking skills needed to detect and evaluate misinformation and fake news they may encounter in the future. (The Conversation 2017)
Chin, B n.d., ‘ Week 8 Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding ’, MDA20009 Digital Communites , Learning materials on Blackboard, Swinburne University Sarawak, 23 April 2018, viewed 2 May 2018.
Marom, D 2013, ‘Crowdfunding is Propelling Social Innovation, Crowdsourcing Week’,viewed 1 May 2018 <https://crowdsourcingweek.com/blog/crowdfunding-is-propelling-social-innovation/>
The Conversation 2017, ‘How citizen investigators can collaborate on crowdsourced fact-checking’, viewed 1 May 2018 <https://theconversation.com/how-citizen-investigators-can-collaborate-on-crowdsourced-fact-checking-76890>
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