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"Chris Lintott is founder of Zooniverse, a website that hosts online citizen science projects involving the public in crowdsourcing academic research. Often over-burdened academic departments don't have the time or the resources to process large datasets and some of the most important available information is in forms that computers still can't process. Zooniverse asks people (via large online communities) to devote their free time to projects such as analysing formations of galaxies and studying cancer cells. In the latter, Zooniverse got people analysing more than 2 million cancer images." | "Chris Lintott is founder of Zooniverse, a website that hosts online citizen science projects involving the public in crowdsourcing academic research. Often over-burdened academic departments don't have the time or the resources to process large datasets and some of the most important available information is in forms that computers still can't process. Zooniverse asks people (via large online communities) to devote their free time to projects such as analysing formations of galaxies and studying cancer cells. In the latter, Zooniverse got people analysing more than 2 million cancer images." | ||
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= an example of Digital Social Innovation
URL = https://www.zooniverse.org/
Description
Jon Kingsbury and Peter Baeck:
"Chris Lintott is founder of Zooniverse, a website that hosts online citizen science projects involving the public in crowdsourcing academic research. Often over-burdened academic departments don't have the time or the resources to process large datasets and some of the most important available information is in forms that computers still can't process. Zooniverse asks people (via large online communities) to devote their free time to projects such as analysing formations of galaxies and studying cancer cells. In the latter, Zooniverse got people analysing more than 2 million cancer images." (http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/feb/28/ten-digital-social-innovators-online)