The power of the crowd and open data – learnings from the OZ Minerals Explorer open innovation challenge

Holly Bridgwater; Jess Robertson; Ian Anderson

doi:10.1080/22020586.2019.12072988

2nd Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference: Data to Discovery

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oa The power of the crowd and open data – learnings from the OZ Minerals Explorer open innovation challenge
Authors Holly Bridgwater^a, Jess Robertson^b and Ian Anderson^c
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^a Unearthed Solutions, 191 St Georges Tce, Perth, , Australia, [email protected] ^b Unearthed Solutions, 191 St Georges Tce, Perth, , Australia, [email protected] ^c OZ Minerals, 2 Hamra Drive, Adelaide, , Australia, [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2019, Issue 2nd Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference: Data to Discovery, Dec 2019, p. 1 - 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22020586.2019.12072988
- Published online: 01 Dec 2019

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We report on the results and lessons learned from Australia’s largest minerals exploration crowdsourcing challenge - the OZ Minerals Explorer Challenge. We discuss some of the challenges in running an international competition with a large amount of technical data at scale, and the methods used to engage innovators from outside the traditional geoscience community. We discuss specific examples of innovative approaches which have been submitted. We also examine the ways in which open innovation and crowdsourcing can provide a novel approach to rapidly evaluating tenement prospectivity and to unlock value from companies’ data assets.

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Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): crowdsourcing; data science; exploration; open data; open innovation

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