Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented system and method for task allocation and distributed collaboration in a sender-receiver, query-response network that augments internet-based social networks with decision support such that private, personally targeted, timely, geo-located, tagged information enables users to contribute and respond to requests using natural language, receive postings customized to their user needs and preferences, and contribute to the collection, interpretation, aggregation, integration and distribution of data, enabling rapid status updates, reporting, and performance management in requester-responder networks that entail information-sharing, task distribution, crowd management and collaborative human-machine problem-solving across a diversity of computer, mobile and device platforms.