Count Me In: Citizen Crowdsourcing Is Creating a New Data Dialogue with the US Government

Posted May 31, 2011 | |

The US government collects and uses vast amounts of data, but traditional processes to capture, analyze, and utilize data are slow, cumbersome, and costly. Regulatory requirements and mandated approval processes can mean a six to 12-month lag before data collection can begin on a project, and once begun, sequential processing steps further slow project completion.

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Maria Lee

Maria Lee is a consultant with more than 15 years' Web development and project management experience. Ms. Lee specializes in delivering Web social discovery and collaboration solutions, such as for the FCC's Mobile Broadband Test, Broadband.gov, and OpenInternet.gov. Previously, she was a Practice Lead at Computech, Inc., a government solutions and IT consulting firm. Ms. Lee was also a Client Director at iXL, Inc., where she worked with dot-com… Read More

Juan Marin Otero

Juan Marín Otero is a geographic information system (GIS) specialist with a master's degree in forestry engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. With professional experience spanning over a decade, Mr. Otero has participated in large projects in the environmental, energy, defense, transportation, and telecommunications industries, among others. He also has experience teaching postgraduate college courses and has collaborated… Read More

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Count Me In: Citizen Crowdsourcing Is Creating a New Data Dialogue with the US Government

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