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Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community

Nowadays, crowdsourcing has become the hype in knowledge acquisition and diffusion. It is a powerful method that promotes speedy information gathering and at the same time yields better results compared to other similar methods. Increasingly, crowdsourcing has also been actively used for reaching so...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Salfarina, Cham, Chin Hwee
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57670/1/Utilising%20crowdsourcing%20method%20through%20BetterCity%20mobile%20apps%20a%20case%20of%20Tampin%20district%20community.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.576702017-10-25T01:59:28Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57670/ Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community Abdullah, Salfarina Cham, Chin Hwee Nowadays, crowdsourcing has become the hype in knowledge acquisition and diffusion. It is a powerful method that promotes speedy information gathering and at the same time yields better results compared to other similar methods. Increasingly, crowdsourcing has also been actively used for reaching solutions to complex problems. Based on these premises, as well as to demonstrate our social responsibility towards the surrounding community, this paper aims to put fourth our effort through BetterCity while exploiting the advantages of crowdsourcing. It is a mobile application for iOS, which acts as an intermediary between local authority and residents specifically in issues reporting and handling. BetterCity makes the flow of issues reporting easier, achieves complete details of public report, allows the public to contribute information, and most importantly, creates a sense of community by cultivating responsible people to their local areas, together with the local authority. IEEE 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57670/1/Utilising%20crowdsourcing%20method%20through%20BetterCity%20mobile%20apps%20a%20case%20of%20Tampin%20district%20community.pdf Abdullah, Salfarina and Cham, Chin Hwee (2015) Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community. In: 9th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MySEC 2015), 16-17 Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (pp. 195-199). 10.1109/MySEC.2015.7475220
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description Nowadays, crowdsourcing has become the hype in knowledge acquisition and diffusion. It is a powerful method that promotes speedy information gathering and at the same time yields better results compared to other similar methods. Increasingly, crowdsourcing has also been actively used for reaching solutions to complex problems. Based on these premises, as well as to demonstrate our social responsibility towards the surrounding community, this paper aims to put fourth our effort through BetterCity while exploiting the advantages of crowdsourcing. It is a mobile application for iOS, which acts as an intermediary between local authority and residents specifically in issues reporting and handling. BetterCity makes the flow of issues reporting easier, achieves complete details of public report, allows the public to contribute information, and most importantly, creates a sense of community by cultivating responsible people to their local areas, together with the local authority.
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author Abdullah, Salfarina
Cham, Chin Hwee
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Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
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Cham, Chin Hwee
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title Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
title_short Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
title_full Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
title_fullStr Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
title_full_unstemmed Utilising crowdsourcing method through BetterCity mobile apps: a case of Tampin district community
title_sort utilising crowdsourcing method through bettercity mobile apps: a case of tampin district community
publisher IEEE
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