Crowdsourcing 'best' for regulating UGC
Wednesday, 28, Jan 2009 08:32
Crowdsourcing is the best way for websites to regulate user-generated content (UGC), an executive director has suggested.
Speaking at the Joint Westminster eForum & Westminster Media Forum's keynote seminar, entitled Digital Britain, Becky Hogge said that websites such as Wikipedia enable "everyone" who uses the internet to be a content regulator.
Ms Hogge, who is the executive director at Open Rights Group, said that crowdsourcing - which is when site users either alert administrators to any potential problems or deal with content issues amongst themselves - is an ideal way to regulate UGC.
Other topics that were discussed at the Digital Britain seminar included the impact of convergence on consumers and businesses, the regulatory challenges posed by convergence, government plans to help boost the digital economy in the UK and an outline of the key elements for the Digital Britain strategy.
The seminar took place on January 14th at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.