Darenbrabham

Hi, I'm Daren Brabham. I am an industry analyst covering enterprise IT for market research firm ETR, formerly an analyst with Gartner, and formerly a professor with expertise in crowdsourcing and online communities. I used to edit Wikipedia many years ago under the username DBrabham but am no longer able to login with that name anymore since it was tied to an email from a previous employer.

I have a B.A. in communication and religion studies from Trinity University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from the University of Utah. I'm the author of the books Crowdsourcing (MIT Press, 2013) and Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector (Georgetown University Press, 2015), the report Using Crowdsourcing in Government (IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2013), as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in academic publications. I was the first to publish scholarly research using the word "crowdsourcing" in 2008. I've also authored several industry papers for Gartner and ETR on enterprise IT spending, data management, data governance, data literacy, data visualization, self-service business intelligence, and related topics.

I was a member of the Standing Committee on Health Threats and Workforce Resilience at the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from 2016 to 2019.

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