Sessions at OpenTech 2010 about Crowdsourcing

Saturday 11th September 2010

• 3B: Election lessons

  by Tim Green

  The 2010 election was the first one where all the candidates were directly asked a set of local questions. This is the story of how we found thousands of volunteers, all the candidates and local issues. Covers the work of DemocracyClub, YourNextMP and TheyWorkForYou.
  http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Democracy
  • Elections
  • mySociety

  At 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Saturday 11th September

• 6A: Museums collaborating with the public - new opportunities for engagement?

  by Mia Ridge

  Despite their reputation as bastions of authority, some museums are trying to open up their databases and encouraging re-use and new forms of publication through mashups or asking the public to help make their data more usable through crowdsourced improvements. The task can be difficult, and the rewards uncertain, but I'd like to share some of the lessons I learnt through running the first ever museum mashup competition, Cosmic Collections, and explore the idea that museums have natural allies in the tech communities.
  http://openobjects.blogspot.com/

  Also in this slot:

  the 10:10 campaign - Robin Houston
  http://lanyrd.com/2010/opentech/...

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Museums

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 11th September

  Coverage slide deck note