We recently completed a summative and formative evaluation report on the Digital Fishers project: The CANARIE investment in the Digital Fishers (DF) component of its NEP-67 grant to NEPTUNE Canada was intended to build a capacity within Oceans 2.0 to support ongoing interaction with a growing Internet-based community interested in contributing to scientific research into oceans [...]
A group at the University of Victoria recently received $1M in funding from CANARIE Inc. (Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network) for a project called “Data from the Deep, Judgment from the Crowd”. One part of this project is called the “Digital Fishers” crowdsourcing component and this is a brief description of how it will work.
The Neptune Canada project at the University of Victoria recently received a $1M funding award from CANARIE Inc., Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, in response to its “Data from the Deep, Judgment from the Crowd” proposal. eBriefings.ca is a partner in this project, leading the “Digital Fishers” crowdsourcing component under the direction of UVic’s [...]
Back in July, I noted on this blog how the Guardian newspaper was using crowdsourcing to analyze the mountain of documents that had been released in relation to the UK House of Commons MPs expense scandal. Since the documents were generally image scans of expense claim forms, with handwritten data and receipts, machine interpretation was [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2009 CANARIE INVESTS MILLIONS MORE IN CUTTING-EDGE CANADIAN RESEARCH: Nine new IT projects win $10.5 million in funding (Banff, Alberta) CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, is pleased to announce at the Summit 09 international cyber infrastructure conference, the second-round of winners in CANARIE’s flagship IT research funding program. [...]
There has been an MPs expense scandal going on in the UK for a while now. Leaked expenses reports were published in daily installments by the Telegraph starting in May 2009. Whoppers have been reveled showing MPs from all parties with their snouts in the trough (“and most of them have got their front trotters [...]
The Sunlight Foundation has launched what it’s calling Transparency Corps. The civic minded policy wonk can devote a couple spare cycles to vetting earmark requests and other tasks that computers still need us humans to tackle. I wasn’t able to copy and paste the text from the pdfs (I had to go through a process [...]
Change.gov has ramped up the crowdsourcing idea a bit more by soliciting policy proposals from the masses to build a “Citizen’s Briefing Book“. This is similar to the Open Questions app the site was running late last year. Once you log in, you can submit your brilliant policy idea and vote up or down on [...]