Cloud, mobile and social computing

Question 1

What is Waze and how does it work?

Answer 1

Waze is an app that collects map data, trave times and traffic information from users at no cost to waze

• the data collected is transmitted to the waze server
• waze uses report accidents, traffic jams, speed and police traps

Question 2

Whats is social computing ?

Answer 2

it is a broad area of research at the intersection of computer science, economics, and other social sciences

• it concerns both harnessing human intelligence for computational tasks and the design of computational systems that support social behaviour and interactions
• it combines social behaviour and Internet systems to create value

Question 3

What is Censorship ?

Answer 3

it is content moderation since content is gathered from different sources and people (reliable and unreliable)
- in order to deal with unlawful content, it is used to rely on users to report unlawful behaviour and content