Part III

Crowdsourcing Intelligence, Solutions, and Influence

In This Part

Chapter 7: Introduction to Crowdsourcing
Chapter 8: Building and Running Crowdsourcing Platforms
Chapter 9: Crowdsourcing Intelligence
Chapter 10: Crowdsourcing Solutions
Chapter 11: Influencing Crowds

Social media technologies not only provide you with data for analysis, they also provide you with the ability to engage and interact with people from all over the world. Focused and sustained engagement through social media enables you to crowdsource or tap into the cognitive surplus and resources of the crowds that use the Internet. In Part III, we explore the concept of crowdsourcing and how organizations have used it to solve various security and development problems. We then illustrate how you can use crowdsourcing to significantly bolster intelligence collection, solve complex problems, and influence populations.

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