Building Trust in Communities
An interview with community leaders about their success and challenges when building trust between the community and students.
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An interview with community leaders about their success and challenges when building trust between the community and students.
Governments increasingly turn to the Internet to aid in transparency, accountability, and public participation activities, and there is growing interest in innovative online problem-solving models to serve the public good. One such model, the crowdsourcing model, leverages the collective intelligence of online communities for specific purposes. Understanding how and why people participate in these kinds of activities is important for developing better new media tools for the public good going forward.