Note - the U.S. platform doesn’t have a community of users, hence it is irrelevant. The tech needs to be there, but without an active community a platform is like a stage without actors.
First Haiti, now this. Crowdsourcing tools for disaster response - like CrisisCommons (cited by DR) - has arrived and the question in the future will be: who is providing the platform? They are the sysadmin - both literally and figuratively.
First Haiti, now this. Crowdsourcing tools for disaster response - like CrisisCommons (cited by DR) - has arrived and the question in the future will be: who is providing the platform? They are the sysadmin - both literally and figuratively.