Tag Archives: crowdsourcing

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A blogger fills out the form for permission to cover the elections and enter the polling station.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

Who’s Your Social Media Guru?

Written by jessica. Posted on March 16, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 5 Comments.
Who do you want to hear from?
Most self-respecting social media experts wouldn’t think of letting themselves be called a social media guru—just listen to Mark Comerford at the recent Young Leaders Visitors Program Social Media Café earlier this month at Zico House in Beirut: Nevertheless, there are some who understand the technical and the tactical of new media better than the rest [...]

Let’s Put Beirut on the Map

Written by jessica. Posted on August 17, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, SMEX News. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
OpenStreetMap is an international project that aims to provide free geographic data collected by individuals from around the world. Or, as they describe themselves on their website, OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap relies on crowdsourcing to gather the geographic data that is plotted on the map. Anyone who knows [...]