In an era of tight public budgets, cities need all the help they can get. Crowdsourcing is one strategy that cities can adopt to enlist the help, knowledge and time of their citizens. Applications ...

Crowdsourcing is transforming how we monitor ecological challenges by harnessing the collective efforts of individuals, communities and organizations. This approach generates extensive and diverse ...

As companies struggle to adopt artificial intelligence technology and offer more personalized, intuitive services to customers, demand for data scientists continues to soar. When LinkedIn tried to ...

Google Maps users on Android and iOS today are seeing a new prompt that explicitly permits the app to crowdsource their “navigation data.” Notably, live turn-by-turn navigation will not work unless ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the digital reinvention of retail and consumer products. Traditional approaches to fighting counterfeiting have often felt ...

Lawsuits, political debate and botched website rollouts have made health care a hot beat for journalists, yet the coverage has largely overlooked an important factor: the cost to consumers. That’s ...

Crowdsourcing and data integration algorithms represent an evolving interdisciplinary field that combines human intelligence with computational methods to enhance data processing and decision support.

Data produced by Internet users can help to speed up the detection of earthquakes. An international team of scientists has presented a method to combine in real time data from seismic networks with ...

Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise ...

A San Francisco company with a D.C.-area presence that pays people to snap photos of products on store shelves and record observations, such as prices in their local markets, is expanding. Premise ...

(TNS) — Readers have questions about the state’s new “Eyes on the Road” campaign, which will distribute 1, 000 dashcams to motorists as a way to crowdsource data collection to improve roadway safety, ...