Crowdsourcing Taxonomies to Inform Development and Humanitarian Action

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Year

2016

Responsible Pulse Lab

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Project Partner

Humanitarian Forum Indonesia, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Qatar Computing Research Institute, UN OCHA, UN Volunteers, UNDP, and WFP

Data Type

Mobile Data and Social Media Data

Related Pillar

Sustainable Development

Related SDG

03: Good health and well-being, 09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, and 17: Partnerships for the goals

Project Description

Pulse Lab Jakarta launched Translator Gator in 2016, a language game to create text mining dictionaries for recognizing sustainable development-related conversations across ASEAN countries.

In 2017, the Lab released Translator Gator 2 to test whether crowdsourcing can be used to inform disaster management efforts.

In 2018, Pulse Lab Jakarta released all the data that was crowdsourced online. Totalling almost 1.5 million gaming activities performed by nearly 4,000 registered players, the complete dataset is available on TranslatorGator.org.

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Related SDG

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