Digital volunteers can do a wide variety of tasks related to the use of collective intelligence in crises. Crowdsourcing is the main task that volunteers do. Crowdsourcing allows the big tasks to be broken down into smaller more manageable tasks. An example would be searching photos for plane debris which happed during the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370

Digital Volunteering and Crowdsourcing

The practice of completing tasks by using a large group of remote workers, where the specific tasks performed are typically short, require limited context, and are algorithmically mediated.

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1. Selfsourcing
2. Friendsourcing
3. Crowdsourcing

Different Types of Sourcing

Teevan, J., Iqbal, S. T., Cai, C. J., Bigham, J. P., Bernstein, M. S., &amp; Gerber, E. M. (2016). Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856480 

Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks

The practice of the task owner completing their own tasks, where the specific tasks performed are typically short, require limited context, and are algorithmically mediated.

Selfsourcing Definition

The practice of completing tasks by the task owner’s friends and/or colleagues, where the specific tasks performed are typically short, require limited context, and are algorithmically mediated.

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