ICT technological revolution has inadvertently changed the way people share and disseminate information. Today, information sharing has been made possible globally; people are empowered to contribute skills, knowledge and expertise regardless of their physical location, hence, the emergence of crowdsourcing. This new concept is evolving in many fields ranging from world mapping, health monitoring, disaster relief to crime prevention. Many studies have shown that crowdsourcing serves as a promising new approach in gathering information. Success stories by Google, OpenStreetMap, and Wikimapia inspired organizations including local authorities to try this new method for their own use. In this paper, we evaluate 6 mobile applications which use crowdsourcing to report crime related incidents. The evaluation is done based on 7 criteria that are found to be important based on literatures. These include map viewing, crime listing, incident sharing, authority reporting, media sharing, tutorial and supported system. A conclusive evaluation is performed and future works related to this research are discussed at the end of the paper.

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The importance of information as a strategic organisational asset has been highlighted by researchers in a number of studies. Many large organisations especially those in utility industry realize that it is crucial to ensure that the 'right' information is always available when strategic decisions need to be executed. Based on the literatures reviewed on this subject matter, it can be observed that currently the number of frameworks available to help such organisation assess the quality of the information they possess is still limited. This is especially true for electricity companies. One attempt to fill up this gap was done in 2008 in which a specifically tailored Information Audit framework to electricity companies was introduced, known as ElCIA framework. This paper will evaluate the formulated ElCIA framework by identifying its strengths and weaknesses. This identification is an initial step for a study designed to provide further recommendation on how the framework can be enhanced for a much easier adoption by electricity companies.

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Rapid advancement of information and telecommunication technologies today enables the Internet users to produce, share and consume geographic information (GI) virtually and globally. This type of information, termed as volunteered geographic information (VGI), has been widely used as an alternative source of information for many areas; world mapping, health monitoring, disaster relief and crime prevention. In this paper, we discuss the potentials of acquiring VGI as an information source to a mobile application for reporting an on campus crime incident. We analyze the expected features required by our potential users which were gathered through a survey and propose an application prototype for our to-be developed mobile application based on the survey results.