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Chris Vallance | 13:18 UK time, Thursday, 15 November 2007

are adding the so-called to the beautiful game after purchased a majority stake in the club. 20,000 people paid Myfootballclub £35 to share in the running of the team. In the interview below Tim Glynne-Jones from the company explains the deal:

, with fans actually directing tactics during the game - they languish in Israel's sixth division.

While the jury is still out on crowdsourcing and football - The Wisdom of Crowds is gaining considerable currency in the business world. Don Tapscott is the and wrote the foreword to the book (a collaboratively written book on a similar theme) - he explains the idea behind the Wisdom of Crowds and how businesses are making use of the concept:

Beyond business law enforcement agencies are interested in the opportunities new technology presents for harnessing the power of the crowd. Today I was sent a link (thanks Clark!) pointing to this post from Dangerroom looking at the and an experiment in the crowdsourcing of border security - more from the :

Ordinary citizens may soon be able to help law enforcement officers fight crime along the border. Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet now can log onto https://www.texasborderwatch.com and view one of nine cameras placed at locations along the Texas-Mexico border.

And Canadian police have successfully . Over here local residents in - a TV channel that let them monitor local CCTV footage.

Is this an idea that should be taken further? What if anyone could watch a CCTV camera and report suspicious behaviour to the police? It's a powerful tool but civil liberties issues abound - . Can, and should, the investigation of crime be crowdsourced? In a sense it has been since the invention of the wanted poster - but modern technology raises difficult new issues. Your thoughts welcome.


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