Human Computation and Crowdsourcing for Earth

Our planet is in crisis. Humanity can only avoid disaster if we pursue goals that promote prosperity while protecting the planet. The promise of human computation and crowdsourcing was to use technology to liberate the latent potential across the globe to accomplish feats that were once the province of a specialized few. This vision paper discusses the prospects and challenges of leveraging human computation and crowdsourcing to assist, measure, and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations (UN).