Boy, if you have some down time, this could fill it. You can sign up to be a ‘virtual deputy’ and watch various webcams of the border area in Texas. If you see anything suspicious, just use the email function of the site and let them know what’s up. Now could something like this be used in a war zone? Could you line an entire road with webcams, and ask the viewing public to watch it? Better yet, what if you mixed Mechanical Turk (Amazon.com crowd sourcing service) and virtual community or war zone watches? I guess it is too soon to tell, and it will be interesting to hear the feedback about this project, and it’s potential. –Head Jundi
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About BlueServo
The Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition (TBSC) has joined BlueServoSM in a public-private partnership to deploy the Virtual Community Watch, an innovative real-time surveillance program designed to empower the public to proactively participate in fighting border crime.
The TBSC BlueServoSM Virtual Community WatchSM is a network of cameras and sensors along the Texas-Mexico border that feeds live streaming video to www.BlueServo.net. Users will log in to the BlueServoSM website and directly monitor suspicious criminal activity along the border via this virtual fenceSM.
Citizens can sign up as Virtual Texas DeputiesSM to participate in border surveillance through this social network. Virtual Texas DeputiesSM from around the country will monitor the streaming video from these cameras 24/7 and report any suspicious activities directly to the Border Sheriffs via email. All emails regarding suspicious activity will be submitted anonymously.
The Public, acting as Virtual Texas DeputiesSM, is limited to reporting suspicious activities via email. Local county Sheriffs will respond to these reports, conduct all investigations, and take appropriate actions. This service will provide millions of dollars in benefits to local border Sheriffs, with the public acting as additional pairs of eyes for Deputies on the ground. This extra surveillance will allow the public to directly participate in reducing crime and improving their communities. It is a well-established fact that citizen involvement in community watch programs such as this one reduces crime.
Another facet of this program is the ability of the public to connect their own cameras to www.BlueServo.net to create local Virtual Neighborhood WatchesSM in order to protect their own homes, neighborhoods, and families from criminal acts. These Virtual Neighborhood WatchesSM can, in turn, be connected to form additional Virtual Community WatchesSM.
Membership on www.BlueServo.net site is free and open to anyone by signing up and obtaining a User Log-In. Because www.BlueServo.net is an internet social network, in the future, BlueServoSM anticipates that high volume of traffic to its website will generate advertising revenue to defray the operations cost of the Virtual Community WatchSM to the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition.
What We Do
The Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition (TBSC) has joined BlueServoSM in a public-private partnership to deploy the Virtual Community Watch, an innovative real-time surveillance program designed to empower the public to proactively participate in fighting border crime. The TBSC BlueServoSM Virtual Community WatchSM is a network of cameras and sensors along the Texas-Mexico border that feeds live streaming video to www.BlueServo.net. Users will log in to the BlueServoSM website and directly monitor suspicious criminal activity along the border via this virtual fenceSM.
Website for BlueServo Here
This sounds like HomeGuard.
How To Secure The Homeland Without Leaving The House
A virtual militia of Pajamahadeen donating their time and computers to augment border surveillance. Everybody who cares about the Border can contribute to this, and do their part from home. Might be a more effective use of band width than keystroking on and on about how Bush has sold us out to Mexico and how much we need a fence.
Comment by Cannoneer No. 4 — Tuesday, December 16, 2008 @ 5:23 AM