Mobile crowdsourcing
The Mobile World Congress happened this past week in Barcelona, and it’s where major products and services on the mobile world are launched and showed to the public.
Chaordix was there and they have an interesting blog post about the main trends seen on the floor and how it might affect crowdsourcing.
Since even Google predicts (as stated in the post) that mobile computing will be bigger than desktop in a few years time, it makes sense that crowdsourcing models move to that arena more and more.
The two main trends observed were:
- Interconnectivity: in the sense of having all your information coming to a single place through mobiles. Since crowdsourcing is all about collaboration and exchanging information, this is has to be an asset that every crowdsourcing initiative should have integrated.
- Apps: having better apps to help crowdsourcing on the go and more areas where this type of practice can be applied and For ehelp people. For example, they mention Waze, an app that gives users turn-by-turn navigation and traffic conditions entirely powered by users. Or Yelp, obviously made of users reviews.
Mobile and Crowdsourcing are indeed a potent mix that should be taken into consideration. When you have a small computer in your pocket and connected to the whole world, you have a lot of power if you only have the right app. Granted, the smartphone penetration on general population is still small, but it is growing immensely. And when we talk about mobile crowdsourcing it doesn’t even have to be fancy apps and smartphones: there are some great projects in a few countries in Africa and in India that use SMS to spread out information gathered by users (local news, when they’ll be able to get water, etc).
Know the traffic on the go, the wheather, search for a restaurant near by, choosing which movie to see, knowing what to do at a a specific medical emergency (there’s an app for that!) are some of examples we can do today when it comes to apps that depend on a form or another on crowdsourcing. But what will be the hot applications of tomorrow that will use crowdsourcing?
HA – you beat me to it – I was just about to write a post on this
Nicely done ricardo
Ahah, sorry! Very interesting stuff as mobile goes more and more ubiquitous.
Hi,
Very interesting. Does anyone have a list of mobile crowdsource based apps?
Brewster
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