Sometimes, the best way to dissuade bad behavior may be through a little public shaming. 

Now with the benefit of wide public exposure on offer by the Internet, the newest trend in today’s digital world may not be crowd-funding but crowd-shaming.

Just ask Kenyans United Against Poaching, or Kuapo. Their new crowdsourcing website allows fellow Kenyans to call out elephant poachers online, for everyone to see.

 Involved in elephant hunting, and your name and photo could go viral soon thereafter. And the best part? It’s completely anonymous on the “informant’s” part.

France has concocted a crowd-shaming website of its own. The target: corrupt officials working on development projects in Mali.

In the digi-sphere, it seems that connectibility can apply to citizen vigilance. Perhaps a new trend in informal crime-fighting is slowly coming our way.
As the old Johnny Cash song goes: what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.