Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services. These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result. The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e.
"offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Crowdsourcing comes from a less-specific, more public group, whereas outsourcing is commissioned from a specific, named group, and includes a mix of bottom-up and top-down processes.[6][7][8] Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity.[9][10] Definitions[edit] In a February 1, 2008, article, Daren C. Historical examples[edit] Timeline of major events[edit] G. TopCoder, Inc. | Home of the world's largest development community. Solver Develops Solution to Help Clean Up Remaining Oil From the 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster.
Boston, MA and Cordova, AK - November 7, 2007 - InnoCentive, the leader in prize-based Open Innovation sourcing, is helping to make a positive impact on Environmental Conservation by working with the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) and other conservation groups. OSRI has posted 3 Challenges on the InnoCentive website, all dealing with oil spill recovery issues. The first of these challenges was solved last week by an oil industry outsider who used his expertise in the concrete industry to come up with the winning solution.
John Davis, an InnoCentive Solver from the Central United States, was awarded $20,000 for his creative solution. This first OSRI Challenge required a method for separating oil from water on oil recovery barges after the oil and water had frozen to a viscous mass. Having no background in the oil industry, John applied his expertise and proposed using an existing product commonly used in the concrete industry. Sparked.com Microvolunteering. Skilled Online Volunteering. Kaggle, we're making data science a sport. Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome.
Microtask. Stack Overflow. Home. Microwork. Microwork is a series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and are completed by many people over the Internet. [1] [2] Microwork is considered the smallest unit of work in a virtual assembly line. [3] It is most often used to describe tasks for which no efficient algorithm has been devised, and require human intelligence to complete reliably. The term was developed in 2008 by Leila Chirayath Janah of Samasource. [4] [5] Microtasking[edit] Microtasking is the process of splitting a job into its component microwork and distributing this work over the Internet. Since the inception of microwork, many online services have been developed that specialize in different types of microtasking.
Most of them rely on a large, voluntary workforce composed of Internet users from around the world. Microtasks are distinguished from macrotasks which typically can be done independently, they require a fixed amount of time and they require a specialized skill. Services[edit] The future of customer support: Outsourcing is so last year. Personal Loans and Online Investing - Peer to Peer Lending - Prosper. This Exquisite Forest. How Linux is Built. Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting - tech - 25 February 2012.
SMARTPHONES may soon get a lot better at finishing your sentences for you - with the help of words and phrases gleaned from crowdsourcing. The software packages in today's phones often struggle with texts and voice commands if a user attempts words or phrases that aren't included in the phone's database. To see if the crowd could help, Keith Vertanen of Montana Tech in Butte and Per Ola Kristensson at the University of St Andrews, UK, called upon workers of the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The plan was to try and improve a predictive system used in Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, which help disabled people to communicate by painstakingly typing out words interpreted from their muscle twitches or blinks. The researchers paid 298 Mechanical Turk workers to imagine phrases they might need if they had motor neuron disease or cerebral palsy.
The result is a system that needs 11 per cent fewer keystrokes than a standard AAC device. New Scientist Not just a website! (YouTube) ADULLACT - Mutualisation de logiciels libres pour institutionnels. Welcome to GOV.UK Beta (Test) - simpler, clearer, faster access to UK government services and information. The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions and open innovation prizes | Challenge.gov. Icelanders approve their crowdsourced constitution — European technology news. FiveSecondTest. L'Actualité des outils collaboratifs.
#1 Site for Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, & Open Innovation News | Daily Crowdsource. SME. Map Explorer | Field Expedition: Mongolia, National Geographic. Stardust@Home. Citizen Science Alliance. Old Weather - Our Weather's Past, the Climate's Future. Planet Hunters. Galaxy Zoo. Whales | Home. Solve Puzzles for Science | Foldit. Phylo. Nod-A. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth. Cairns Blog: Crowdsourcing Governance. [Video intro ends at 52 seconds; Intro by Dr. Gref ends at 2'18; Speech ends at 11'15; then Q&A] For Prime Minister Putin's presentation, click here. Crowdsourcing Governance We’ve heard today that as individuals we are smarter collaborating together than working alone.
That is as true for institutions as it is for individuals. We are also smarter working across the boundaries of institutions with groups and individuals outside the walls of a single organization. Collaboration makes businesses more successful. Challenges To do so, we have three challenges we must first overcome: 1. 2. 3. Solutions I would argue that collaboration is more important for government than for business in these very tough economic times, because it enables government to deliver better services for less money and more democratically. First, crowdsourcing is a serious solution to serious problems. 1. 2. 3. Second, designed right, these are not experimental projects. Closing This is not about the technology. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration. Duolingo. Duolingo Intro.
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