Crowdsourcing în intelligence
Crowdsourcing in intelligence

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the complex development of the security environment plays an important role to the emergence of a new perspective regarding security, seen as “a common good” - the shaping of the concept is the responsibility of the entire society and its effects influence everybody. The vulnerabilities, risks and threats to the national security have a multidimensional structure, the intelligence services face difficulties in operating, by themselves, the amount of challenges to protect and promote the national interests. Crowdsourcing can be a solution to surpass the limits imposed by the proliferation of information, especially open sources, in the twenty-first century. The term defines, basically, the practice of “externalizing” some dimensions of the intelligence cycle to social actors, in order to create a symbiotic relationship between the intelligence community and the civil society.

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