One of the biggest projects of crowd sourcing is being used right now on satellite images over the Indian Ocean to help authorities search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Crowdsourcing website Tomnod, is using map imagery from US-based satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe, and allowing its users to comb over thousands of square miles of ocean in search of any clues as to where MH370 went down. More than 2,000,000 people have already tagged features in the imagery provided in search of the wreckage.
When tragedy strikes, many people want to help but are unable to go and have boots on the ground in the location, but with crowdsourcing sites like Tomnod, it allows people from all over the world to join together to help. The search is still on going but it surely is going faster with the help of crowdsourcing and with the people out there that are willing to lend a helping hand.
While tragedy is a good cause to bring people together to help out, so is history. Another interesting story of crowdsourcing for non-profit comes from an article I found from Fox News.
UK mobilizes crowdsourcing army to analyze massive archive of World War I info
Historians in England are releasing war journals from WWI to the public to get help sorting through them and taking out the pertinent information about the daily lives of soldiers and how different decisions that were made affected things during the war. Crowdsourced volunteers are also asked to research weather patterns during the period of their specified journal entries to see how that may have affected soldiers as well.
Crowdsourcing is proving to be a very useful tool to help in innovation and now in ways to volunteer. It is allowing people that normally wouldn't have the chance to help with social projects for the betterment of the world.
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