The Impact of Culture Factors on Crowd-Sourced Application

Crowd-sourcing, a mechanism whereby the knowledge is har- vested from the masses, has become a popular example of computer-supported collaborative work (cscw) paradigm. In particular spatial crowd-sourcing applications, in which cit- izens contribute information regarding spatial objects, have seen their popularity grow both from consumers (e.g. Open- StreetMaps) and marketing (e.g. Foursquare) perspective. However, there has been little attention given to the impact that users culture has on success and growth of these sys- tems. In this paper we draw a cross-culture study to investi- gate the effect of national culture on spatial crowd-sourcing systems. Our results demonstrate important implications that are caused by the effect of cultural dimensions on the users contribution behaviour and the system as a whole.