  UNISDR
  English
  2017
  Practitioners, Policy Makers
  
  Preparedness
  Crowdsourcing
  
  https://www.undrr.org/publication/citizens-participation-and-crowdsourcing
  
  No

Created: 14 December 2021
Last edited: 14 August 2023

Citizens’ participation and crowdsourcing

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Publishing Organisation:

UNISDR

Year:

2017

Languages:

English

Covers Thematic

Crowdsourcing Describes a distributed problem-solving model where the task of solving a challenge or developing an idea get “outsourced” to a crowd. It implies tapping into “the wisdom of the crowd”.</br></br>Source:DRS Glossary v2.0 LINKS 181220.xlsx

Target audience

Practitioners Practitioners is a target group in LINKS which comprises local, national and European disaster management organizations, civil protection agencies, first responders, NGOs, security networks...

Policy Makers local, national, and European agencies and institutes, public authorities, standardization bodies

Audience experience level

Disaster Management Phase

Preparedness

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This document is the eighth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction for the use of crowdsourcing as an approach to gathering information for risk assessment, which has benefits not only for gathering data at a large scale, but also in educating participants on risks in their area as they gather information.