Crowdsourced Monitoring, Citizen Empowerment and Data Credibility

摘要: Crowdsourcing is today a revolutionary phenomenon changing profoundly our ways of communicating and producing. This article interested in two issues that are crucial to its development impacts. On one hand, it investigates the forms limits crowdsourcing-related citizen empowerment. It less concerned by now recognized fact crowdsourcing empowering, but rather focuses on does so architecture relations between citizens, scientists institutions this new context. other, discusses question credibility data produced through crowdsourcing. represents, fact, Achilles’ heel destabilizes rise power face experts institutions. In discussion these issues, relies particularly interesting case study: online platform participatory monitoring biodiversity Belgium Observations.be. The creation databases an occasion here for reflexivity, learning mobilisation. also liberation lay citizen, as individual, from straightjackets delimiting institutional, scientific associative spaces where he remains subject, collaborator or member – always subordinate position. He becomes peer producer, partner discussant. More important, action networks develop cut transversally three spheres. We find unexpected cooperations civil servants. Likewise, actions developed platform, mainly reporting, counting campaigns early alert systems attest modes transgress functional ontological division