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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digital platforms to attract and divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. Crowdsourcing is not limited…

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related to Timeline of crowdsourcing examples · 108
Crowdsourcing → Amazon Mechanical Turk, Berkeley, Bibliothèque, BP, British, By, C'était Paris, California, Canada, Caribbean, Casting, Children, China, Connecting, Current Charts, Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon Response, Did You Feel It, Do, Dream
related to Other types · 34
Crowdsourcing → Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, An, Community-based, Complex, Creative, CrowdEC, Crowdshipping, Crowdsolving, Crowdsourcing-Based Optimization, Due, EC, GPS, However, It, Jim Gray, Macro-tasks, Macrowork, Mechanical Turk, Microwork
see also · 32
Crowdsourcing → Aggregation, Amateur, Citizen, Collaborative, Collection, Collective, Computer, Crowds, Digital-communication, European, Form, Google, Group, Internet, Intersection, James SurowieckiCrowdsource, Method, Model, NASACollaborative, Online
related to Other examples · 28
Crowdsourcing → Agriculture, Air, Australia, Boye Brogeland, Cheating, Crowdsource, Engineering, Geography, Healthcare, In, IOT, Libraries, Live, Many, National Library, Newspaper, OCR, Open-source, OpenStreetMap, PGI
related to Demographics of the crowd · 27
Crowdsourcing → Additionally, Amazon Mechanical Turk, American, Approximately, Bangladesh, Black, Close, Democrats, However, In, In November, India, Indian, Indonesia, Ipeirotis, Mechanical Turk, Microworkers, More, MTurk, Politics
related to Early competitions · 19
Crowdsourcing → Alkali, Devanagari, During, Fourneyron's, French, Great Depression, In, Indian, Leblanc, Longitude Prize, Mathematical Tables Project, Montyon Prizes, Nicolas Appert, One, Ra, The British, The French, These, Thousands
related to Inducement prize contests · 18
Crowdsourcing → An, Another, DARPA, Europe, IBM's, Innovation Jam, Internet-based, It, MIT, Netflix Prize, Netflix's, People, Tag Challenge, The, United States, US, US State Department, Web-based
related to Crowdvoting · 16
Crowdsourcing → Acme, Coca-Cola, Crowdvoting, Domino's Pizza, Heineken, In, One, Ranking, Sam Adams, Some, T-shirts, The Iowa Electronic Market, They, This, Threadless, What
related to Labor-related concerns · 14
Crowdsourcing → Amazon Mechanical Turk, Because, However, In, India, Mechanical Turk, MTurk, Overall, Some, They, United States, United States Turk, When Facebook, Workers
related to Definitions · 13
Crowdsourcing → Brabham, Daren, Guth, Howe, Internet, Jeff Howe, Kristen, Mark Robinson, Merriam-Webster, OED's, The, The Oxford English Dictionary, Wired

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