world_heritage

Let's Protect World Heritages Together

Upload photos of the Bayon Temple so that we can find its current condition and maintain it efficiently.

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disaster

The World's First “International Cyber Disaster Response Drill"

Can people and AI cooperate in disaster response across borders?

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disaster

Support Disaster-Hit Areas Together with Drones

You judge whether each buildings is damaged or not in aerial photographs of a disaster-hit area

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library

You can join this library volunteer anywher you want

Help solve a variety of problems inside a library using crowdsourcing and human judgement

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futaba

Using your own words, help preserve the memory of Futaba

Add multilingual index terms to photos of Futaba, Japan - a town which suffered greatly during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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NEWS

  • 2020-10-08
  • MAINTENANCE

We are going to have the system maintenance from 2020-10-16 08:00(UTC) to 2020-10-19 03:00(UTC).

Due to the system maintenance, Crowd4U website and tasks do not appear from 2020-10-16 08:00(UTC) to 2020-10-19 03:00(UTC).

  • 2020-06-30
  • MAINTENANCE

We are going to have the system maintenance from 2020-07-02 00:00(UTC) to 2020-07-02 03:00(UTC).

Due to the system maintenance, Crowd4U website and tasks do not appear from 2020-07-02 00:00(UTC) to 2020-07-02 03:00(UTC).

  • 2020-06-05
  • PROJECT

The Web site that aggregates information about COVID-19 around the world was released.

The Web site that aggregates information about COVID-19 around the world, being collaborately developed by information laboratories of universities and research institutes in Japan, was released.

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About Crowd4U


The new face of volunteering.

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  • Our Mission

    Crowd4U is a non-profit platform for you to perform microtasks to make the world a better place. It is an all academic open and generic platform for "Crowdsourcing for Good" and provides a task pool for microtasks for academic and public purposes. Crowd4U allows to register virtually any task and can serve as a research facility for crowdsourcing.

  • What are "microtasks"?

    ‘Microtasks’ are simple and easy tasks that can be completed in a very short amount of time, and by a group of global workers. There are several categories of Microtasks, allowing workers to choose between different types.

  • Who are "contributors"?

    A “contributor” is a member of Crowd4U that helps solve Microtasks. Your name will be listed in the contributor list of projects. We will issue volunteer certificates for the tasks you performed while logging-in. We accept both your real and handle names.

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How To Start

You can participate in one or more projects that you are interested in.

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Simple and easy to understand.

Most tasks are simple to do, and everyone can give them a try if they are interested.

Tasks can be performed by adding the most relevant keywords to a displayed image, looking at an image and selecting the best choice out of 2-4 keywords, or by playing simple games.

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Work on tasks from a variety of projects

Different types of tasks have been gathered by Crowd4U to help with various academic and research projects.
Use the “Start Random Task” button to start working on these tasks.

Start "Random Tasks"
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Work on tasks from a single project

Crowd4U tasks come from many different types of projects, and knowing the stories and mission of a project may encourage you to support it.

You can find out about specific projects you would like to help with by clicking the Go To Projects Page button below.

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Shall we design Crowd4U together?

If you would like to use Crowd4U for your academic or public projects, please contact us.

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To those who have programming skills

Crowd4U has an "AI worker" program to help perform tasks using machine learning. We are looking for someone who can cooperate with Crowd4U on the program.
IIf you are interested please, contact us.

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Crowd4U in the Media

  • World's first international cyber disaster drill.

    EMIME ASAH TELEVISION
    10 October 2019

  • International cyber disaster prevention drill at Ehime etc. AI and 600 people around the world judge whether or not they are.

    THE EHIME SHIMBUN
    9 October 2019

  • World's first disaster prevention drill using AI.

    NHK EHIME NEWS WEB
    8 October 2019

  • Reimbursement certificate "issuance speed.

    NHK NIIGATA
    26 June 2019

  • Future disaster response is "SNS, drone and AI"

    NEWSWICH by THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN
    11 March 2019

  • The nation's first attempt cyber disaster prevention drill.

    Public-Relations agazine“TSUBAME”
    15 August 2018

  • Information Technology utilization damage analysis even in remote areas, Sakai City University team and disaster prevention drill.

    THE NIIGATA NIPPO
    2 July 2018

  • Disaster drills shared via the Internet.

    NHK SHUTOKEN NEWS WEB
    2 July 2018

  • Cyber training to share information during disasters.

    NHK NIIGATA
    1 July 2018

  • Use AI to understand the damage situation expected to increase the efficiency of rescue operations, such as wealth.

    THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN Morning Edition
    27 June 2018

  • Using drones, SNS, AI, grasping the situation of disasters.

    THE TOYAMA SHIMBUN Morning Edition
    23 June 2018

  • Next month, the 3rd university research team, the first national disaster prevention drill.

    THE NIIGATA NIPPO Mornig Edition
    22 June 2018

  • Disaster prevention drills using AI and drones verification of community collaboration models such as Niigata and Sakai City and the University of Tsukuba.

    THE NIKKANKOGYO SHIMBUN Web Edition
    4 June 2018

  • AI raised by the city and progress with the community.

    NEWSWICH by THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN
    2 May 2018

  • AI volunteers are wanted by University of Tsukuba - for checking bibliographic information with humans.

    The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
    20 September 2017

  • Researchers at Doshisha University and University of Tsukuba are looking for AI to help people organize books on the internet.

    The Kyoto Shimbun
    13 September 2017

  • AI crowdsourcing technology being developed by Shizuoka University and others.

    The Shizuoka Shimbun
    12 September 2017

  • University of Tsukuba and Kyoto University are using AI to detect vague information from massive amounts of natural disaster data.

    The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
    27 June 2017

  • University of Tsukuba and Kyoto University use AI to detect vague information from large amounts of natural disaster data.

    The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun web
    27 June 2017

  • ISBN duplication, incorrect book counts…Kyoto Prefectural Library and Calil corporation work together to improve cross-searching systems using crowdsourcing technologies.

    INTERNET Watch
    1 December 2016

  • Kyoto Prefectural Library published a press release about L-Crowd project: We will conduct a collaborative project between industry, academia, and government to improve the union catalogue network within Kyoto Prefecture.

    Kyoto Prefectural Library
    1 December 2016

  • Crowdsourcing evolves: New forms of AI-Human Collaboration.

    The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
    24 June 2017

  • Yahoo! Japan and the University of Tsukuba team up to expand crowdsourcing in Japan.

    The Weekly Economist special enlarged issue October 1 2013, Page16, The Mainichi Shimbun
    1 October 2013

  • University of Tsukuba and Yahoo! Japan begin joint research on crowdsourcing systems.

    The Asahi Shimbun, the second Ibaraki
    1 October 2013

Well then, let's begin

Just register and take a look at Crowd4U

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