Crowdsourcing collection of data for crisis governance in the post-2015 world: potential offers and crucial challenges

The practice of 'crowdsourcing' under the new technological regime has opened doors of huge data repositories. In recent years, crowdsourcing have expanded rapidly allowing citizens to connect with each other, governments to connect with common mass, to coordinate disaster response work, to map political conflicts, acquiring information quickly and participating in issues that affect day-to-day life of citizens. Crowdsourcing has the potentiality to offer smart governance by gathering and analyzing massive data from citizens. As data is a key enabler to proper public governance, this paper aims to provide a picture of potential offers that 'crowdsourcing' could make in support of crisis governance in the Post-2015 World, while it illustrates some critical challenges of data protection and privacy in different service sectors. Lastly, with a brief analysis on privacy, online data protection; and safety level of some crowdsourcing tools, this paper proposes brief guidelines for different stakeholders and some future works to avoid some mismanagement of crowdsourced data to protect data, privacy and security of end users.