Twitter, Facebook, and Ten Red Balloons: Social Network Problem Solving and Homeland Security
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Ford, Christopher M.
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2011-02-00
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2011-02
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security
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This essay, the winner of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) Essay Contest in 2010, looks at how homeland security could benefit from crowd-sourced applications accessed through social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook. Christopher M. Ford looks at the apparent efficacy of two such endeavors: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency'۪s (DARPA) competition to find ten 8-foot balloons moored across the continental U.S. and Wired Magazine challenge to '''find' author Evan Ratliff. Based on these and other crowd-sourced applications, Ford suggests that the U.S. government could utilize the internet and social networking sites to potentially solve an array of discrete problems through the active participation of interested citizens
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This article appeared in Homeland Security Affairs (February 2011), v.7 no.1
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Homeland Security Affairs (February 2011), v.7 no.1
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