SwiftRiver is an open source platform that allows businesses to structure and manage unstructured data crowdsourced from the public in real-time. It has been used to gather information during disasters and elections. The challenge it addresses is how organizations can effectively discover useful information from large amounts of crowdsourced data. SwiftRiver uses location-based applications to allow people to drop geo-tagged notes, photos and messages to share information.

1. @jongos
@swiftriver

3. HIVE COLAB
A quick method of dropping geo-cached notes, pics,
messages, or other types of data using location aware
devices.

7. About Swiftly.org Notable Uses The Challenge
SwiftRiver is an open source Since the beta release in August As the amounts of data
collection of Applications and of 2010 our applications have aggregated by businesses using
APIs that can be used for been downloaded well over 7,000 crowdsourcing as a methodology
structuring unstructured data from times. We estimate we’ve grows, they face a common
the web. processed around 10,000,000 problem. How do they effectively
items of content. manage this realtime data? How
SwiftRiver is architected to be an can we help them discover
open source platform that other S o m e o f t h e m o re n o t a b l e credible and actionable info from
businesses and organizations use deployments include recently in the deluge of reports they’ll get
to build upon and customize. Japan, the Queensland floods, a from the public? The SwiftRiver
PR firm in DC called Influentials initiative was created to begin to
Network and Product(RED). answer some of these questions.

9. RADICAL COLLABORATION
TRADING ON SOCIAL CURRENCY
@jongos
@swiftriver

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15. WHAT
MAKES CROWDSOURCING
WORK

16. PEOPLE
WORKING TOGETHER
TO ACCOMPLISH AN
ASSIGNED
TASK

17. CONNECTIONS

18. $

20. DISASTER RESPONSE

21. ELECTION MONITORING

22. CITIZEN JOURNALISM

23. ASYNCHRONOUS
DISTRIBUTED
PARTICIPATORY
COLLABORATION

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26. CURRENCY
currency - mechanism for exchange

27. CONCURRENCY
concurrency - simultaneous, interconnected action

28. QUIDPROQUO
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31. QUIDPROQUO
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32. Volunteers Activists Public /
Victims
Government
Policy
Funders
Donors
Responders
Public /
Public /
News
News
Producers Advertisers
Consumers

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35. RETWEETING

36. GOOGLE +1

39. TRADE AT
WORK

43. CONCURRENCY
+
COLLECTIVE

44. PEOPLE
WORKING TOGETHER
TO ACCOMPLISH AN
ASSIGNED
TASK

46. QUIDPROQUO
This for that.

47. GIVEANDTAKE
In Exchange Economies
less is more.