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Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection and Verification

Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection and Verification

Jessica Heinzelman, Patrick Meier
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466619180|ISBN10: 146661918X|EISBN13: 9781466619197
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1918-0.ch008
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Heinzelman, Jessica, and Patrick Meier. "Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection and Verification." Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, edited by John Lannon and Edward Halpin, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 123-138. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1918-0.ch008

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Heinzelman, J. & Meier, P. (2013). Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection and Verification. In J. Lannon & E. Halpin (Eds.), Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use (pp. 123-138). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1918-0.ch008

Chicago

Heinzelman, Jessica, and Patrick Meier. "Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection and Verification." In Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, edited by John Lannon and Edward Halpin, 123-138. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1918-0.ch008

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Abstract

Accurate information is a foundational element of human rights work. Collecting and presenting factual evidence of violations is critical to the success of advocacy activities and the reputation of organizations reporting on abuses. To ensure credibility, human rights monitoring has historically been conducted through highly controlled organizational structures that face mounting challenges in terms of capacity, cost, and access. The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide new opportunities to overcome some of these challenges through crowdsourcing. At the same time, however, crowdsourcing raises new challenges of verification and information overload that have made human rights professionals skeptical of their utility. This chapter explores whether the efficiencies gained through an open call for monitoring and reporting abuses provides a net gain for human rights monitoring and analyzes the opportunities and challenges that new and traditional methods pose for verifying crowdsourced human rights reporting.

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