6.3.2 Crowd-sourcing technologies
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- New and emerging possibilities for managing global risks
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Strategies to build resilience: re-shoring of economic activity by TNCs
- Strategies to build resilience: use of crowd-sourcing technologies to build resilience by government and civil society
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge and understanding of the re-shoring of economic activity by TNCs as a strategy to build resilience.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the use of crowd-sourcing technologies to build resilience by government and civil society.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Key terms
- Crowd-sourcing
- Involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services - including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances - for payment or as volunteers. Often involves digital platforms to attract and divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result.
- Re-shoring
- The process of returning the production and manufacturing of goods back to the company's original country. Also known as onshoring, inshoring, or backshoring.
- Resilience
- The sustained ability to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations.
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Review
- Analyse the role of civil society organisations in raising awareness about environmental and social risks associated with global interactions. [12]
- The environmental costs of globalisation can never be fully managed. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [16]
- International civil society organisations are more effective than national governments at addressing the environmental risks of globalisation. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [16]