Crowdsourcing for Creativity and Human Potential

Details and registration: http://www.fia.umd.edu/events/crowdsourcing/

Presented by the Future of Information Alliance (FIA)

and co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution

Monday, February 4, 2012, 2-4 pm

Orem Alumni Hall, Riggs Alumni Center, University of Maryland

Crowdsourcing has become a critical component of today's emerging information technologies and practices. Innovators are using it to respond to natural disasters, call attention to human rights abuses, and harness the combined potential of people all over the world in both creative and scholarly ways.

Three new FIA "Visiting Future-ists" will come to campus on February 4th to explore both the opportunities and challenges of crowdsourcing:

-- Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist and craigconnects

-- Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS

-- Jennifer Chan, MD, Director, Global Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

In addition, FIA's “Future-ist in Residence” will be back to join us:

-- Dan Russell, Google’s “director of user happiness”

The moderator will be Sheri Parks, Associate Dean for Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Programming in UMD’s College of Arts and Humanities.

The event will be live-streamed. 

To attend in-person REGISTER NOW:

http://www.fia.umd.edu/events/crowdsourcing/

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This program is made possible with generous support from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and the University of Maryland.

The Future of Information Alliance was created to serve as a catalyst for dialogue across disciplines and to promote research on issues related to the evolving role of information in our lives. By identifying shared challenges and encouraging innovative solutions, the Future of Information Alliance seeks to facilitate a future in which information in all its forms can be an effective resource for all.

The Future of Information Alliance is directed by Professor Allison Druin of Maryland's iSchool and by Ira Chinoy, Associate Dean in Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. The FIA operates under the auspices of the Office of the Vice President for Research and is supported by the deans of all colleges and schools across campus, a broad-based campus advisory board, and 10 Founding Partners (http://www.fia.umd.edu/about/affiliations.shtml) .