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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google could take a different approach to making its weather predictions more accurate. Instead of solely relying on its own data, the company could now start opening up its doors to start ...

With the digitization of hospitals and the growing body of EHR data, there is increased demand to generate knowledge from the available data and create innovative solutions to challenges in healthcare ...

In 2010, three psychologists from the University of British Columbia published a paper with an intriguing title: The WEIRDest people in the world? Paradoxically, the paper was about Americans. The ...

How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use sounding rockets or specialized gear. Or maybe you can just conscript a huge number of cell phones. That was the approach ...