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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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4
Foreword
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5
PART
I
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6
Crowdsourcing
–
A
New
Panacea
for
Social
Accountability
and
Governance?
.........................................
6
1.1
How
is
Crowdsourcing
Expected
to
Improve
Governance?
....................................................................
7
1.2
Critical
Success
Factors
of
Crowdsourcing
Systems
................................................................................
8
1.3
The
Potential
Role
of
Crowdsourcing,
and
in
Particular
Interactive
Mapping,
in
Improving
Aid
Transparency,
Effectiveness,
and
Social
Accountability
in
Fragile
States
...................................................
11
1.4
Challenges
and
Risks
of
Applying
Crowdsourcing
and
Interactive
Mapping
in
Fragile
State
Environments
..............................................................................................................................................
14
PART
II
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18
The
Experience
of
the
Crisis
Mapping
Community
...................................................................................
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2.1
The
Emergence
of
the
Crisis
Mapping
Community
–
The
Case
of
Haiti
................................................
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2.2
An
Evolution
in
Crowdsourced
Crisis
Mapping
–
The
Experience
of
Libya
...........................................
20
The
Experience
of
the
Development
Mapping
Community
.....................................................................
22
2.3
Participatory
Post
‐
Conflict
&
Recovery
Mapping
–
The
Case
of
Sudan
................................................
22
2.4
Mapping
for
Sustainable
Development
–
Participatory
GIS
and
Community
Forestry
Management
in
Nepal
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2.5
Elections
Monitoring
in
Guinea
–
Crowdsourcing
with
Mobile
Technology
for
Transparency
and
Civil
Rights
..........................................................................................................................................................
29
2.6
Kenya
Open
Data
and
Huduma
–
A
Paradigm
Shift
for
Governance
in
Kenya?
...................................
31
2.7
Avaaz
–
Crowdsourcing
Political
Pressure
on
a
Global
Scale
................................................................
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2.8
Other
Emergent
Applications
of
Crowdsourcing
for
Economic
Development
and
Good
Governance
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PART
III
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Recommendations
for
Donors
–
Applying
Crowdsourcing
and
Interactive
Mapping
for
Socio
‐
economic
Recovery
and
Development
in
Fragile
States
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List
of
Referenced
Works
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