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The main purpose of this study is to determine the new perspectives and application areas brought by the crowdsourcing method to intelligence production. For this, the qualitative research method was used and the question of whether the conceptual infrastructure and application areas of crowdsourcing brought new perspectives to intelligence production and organizational structure was emphasized. The work is divided into two parts in this way. In the first part, the concept of crowdsourcing is examined. For this, the idea of the wisdom of the crowds, which also constitutes the theoretical framework of the study, the interaction of the crowd with technology, and the emergence of Pro-Ams and prosumers, which have become new social classes, are discussed. In the second part, Ushahidi, a news production platform, was defined and its use after the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and the nature of the intelligence it produced was examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]