Crowdsourcing for Intelligence

In the CACM:  University studies crowdsourcing for intelligence.  " ... The U.S. intelligence community is studying how to tap the power of crowdsourcing through a multi-university effort.  George Mason University professors Charles Twardy and Kathryn Laskey are organizing an online team of more than 500 forecasters who make educated guesses about a series of world events. Their team will vie with four other teams at several universities for grant money supplied by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).... "