http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/oct/01/first-world-war-royal-navy-ships-mapped?INTCMP=SRCH
"Britain's Royal Navy in the First World War - animated
Imagine
the data you'd get from recording the original Captain's logs from
every Royal Naval vessel from the First World War: location, temperature
and time providing a unique record of climate change. The excellent Old Weather has been crowdsourcing every one of those log books - and the result, created by Simon Tokumine using CartoDB, is a fascinating insight into the British Empire at war - albeit of the records which have survived"
Well hey. If you've got some interesting work that would be tedious and extremely time-consuming for a few people, maybe a couple thousand people would be willing to donate a bit of their time to do the job? Simple task, people do what they want to help, project done when completed. ICA FTW!
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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