Crowdsourcing is tapping into a large group of people to achieve goals. Lord Rama crowdsourced building the Ram Setu bridge to the vanarsena. NASA implements crowdsourcing through Clickworker to achieve goals like returning to the moon and Mars. Crowdsourcing is a business model where a company outsources jobs traditionally done by employees to a large, undefined group on the internet.
4. NASA has been implementing the
Crowd Sourcing approach with
Clickworker to achieve NASA’s goals
of going back to the Moon, to Mars,
and beyond…
5. CROWDSOURCING is neologism for a
business model in which a company or
institution takes a job traditionally
performed by a designated agent (usually an
employee) and outsources it to an undefined,
generally large group of people in the form
of an open call over the Internet
MASS COLLABORATION is a form
of collective action that occurs when large
numbers of people work independently on a
single project, often modular in its nature.
6. Toronto-based gold mining company Goldcorp (GG)
was in trouble
His in-house geologists couldn't reliably estimate the
value and location of the gold on his property.
He published his geological data on the Web and
It broadcasts
Company the problem
online & online
has a
challenged the world to do the prospecting.
problem
crowd is asked
to give
solutions.
The crowd
The submits
solutions and
Company the company
Profits rewards the
winning solvers
The Company
owns the
The contestants identified 110 targets more than
winning
Solutions
80% of which yielded substantial quantities of gold.
The BUSINESS MODEL of Crowdsourcing