The Power of Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

"Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task. The undertaking of the task, of variable complexity and modularity, and in which the crowd should participate bringing their work, money, knowledge and/or experience, always entails mutual benefit. The user will receive the satisfaction of a given type of need, be it economic, social recognition, self-esteem, or the development of individual skills, while the crowdsourcer will obtain and utilize to their advantage that what the user has brought to the venture, whose form will depend on the type of activity undertaken.

Crowdsourcing
Microwork
Digital sweatshop
Outsourcing
Human-based computation
Amateur
Volunteering
Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
Crowd
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Oxford English Dictionary
Leblanc process
Crowd funding
Crowdsourcing creative work
Inducement prize contest
Threadless
IStockphoto
Wisdom of the crowd
Life in a Day (2011 film)
YouTube
CrowdFlower
Jade Magnet
Kickstarter
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Tag Challenge
InnoCentive
Panos Ipeirotis
International Children's Digital Library
Citizen science
Clickworkers
Collective intelligence
Collaborative innovation network
Crowd computing
Crowdcasting
Distributed thinking
Flash mob
Game theory
List of crowdsourcing projects
Microcredit
Open innovation
Social Terrain
Smart mob
Social collaboration