What is Crowdsourcing

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The activity of giving tasks to a large group of people or to the general public, for example, by asking for help on the internet. Learn more in: Leveling Up: Using Motivational Digital Technology to Create Meaningful CLIL Experiences

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The practice of soliciting and obtaining ideas and services from a large group of people particularly via online communities. Learn more in: Crowdsourcing Corporate Sustainability Strategies

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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. Learn more in: Crowdsourcing in Business-to-Business Markets: A Value Creation and Business Model Perspective

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The connection of large groups of people online to source and organise expertise, knowledge, time, beta testing and resources for a specific aim. Learn more in: Technology, Social Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Quadruple Helix

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The act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call’ (Howe, 2006). So crowdsourcing stands literally for outsourcing to a crowd. Learn more in: Customer Involved Open Innovation: Innovation of New Products with End Users and Customers

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A type of collaboration that outsources tasks previously performed by employees, involving other groups of people or communities through open calls for support. Learn more in: Sustainability in Smart Cities: The Case of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) – A Commitment to a New Urban Paradigm

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A business model in which one party (an individual, a company, a NGO, a public institution) solicits a group of individuals for solving a task via the Internet. Learn more in: The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment

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As it relates to digital literacy, crowdsourcing is a type of online dialog in which contributors bring together varied backgrounds, experiences, and levels of expertise related to a defined topic. The crowd contributes to the discussion with the understanding that a common goal will be reached for the benefit of all contributors. Learn more in: Economic Impact of Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education

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Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. Learn more in: Value-Added Crowdsourcing: Digital Catalysts for Creative Contests

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Crowdsourcing is an act of performing a GIS task by a user on a voluntary basis for a set of users. This type of action is based on a bottom-up approach. It is associated with the creation of data through a group dynamic. The crowdsourced data collection is carried out using portable devices (GPS, PC, mobile phones) and the data is synchronized in the central database, accessible and shareable, based on services and maps on the web. Learn more in: Geographic Information Systems

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The technique of presenting a problem statement to the public and floating an open call for solution proposals is known as crowdsourcing. The major advantage it possesses is that it uses modern Web technologies and tools for circulating the problem and collecting responses. Learn more in: Need for Rethinking Modern Urban Planning Strategies Through Integration of ICTs

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The use of online users to collectively contribute and aggregate information towards a common goal. Initially coined by Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson to describe the way commercial entities outsourced tasks to the crowd over the World Wide Web. Learn more in: VLE Meets VW

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It is execution and development of products modality collaboratively, in which responsibility and workloads of projects are distributed in public and open platforms in where different users contribute to the online project development and receiving a payment for the contribution. Learn more in: Orange Economy and Digital Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Creative Sparkles Among Raw Materials

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“The act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to undefined generally large group of people in the form of open call” (Howe, 2006 AU40: The in-text citation "Howe, 2006" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Open Social Innovation

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Crowdsourcing is a marketing strategy in which an organization outsources part of its operational activities to an ambiguous group of many individual contributors for advertisements, spamming, influencing people by increasing number of followers, friends, etc. Learn more in: Evolving Cyber Threats, Combating Techniques, and Open Issues in Online Social Networks

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The practice of obtaining ideas, services or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people (especially from an online community); combining the efforts of numerous self-identified volunteers. Contamination of “crowd” and “outsourcing”. Learn more in: Gamification and Social Media as Tools for Tourism Promotion

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Is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Learn more in: Creating an Educational Social Network Based on the Private Cloud Simulation and User Interaction in Solving Educational Problems

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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 (Estellés-Arolas and González-Ladrón-de-Guevara, 2012, p. 197). Learn more in: A Model Proposal for Local Governments to Increase Citizen Involvement in the Age of Information Society and E-Government: Crowdsourcing

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A combination of the words “crowd” and “sourcing”. It is a content generation model which involves obtaining information by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet using social networking platforms and techniques. Learn more in: Social Bookmarking in Digital Libraries: Intellectual Property Rights Implications

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Crowdsourcing is an act of performing a GIS task by a user on a voluntary basis for a set of users. This type of action is based on a bottom-up approach. It is associated with the creation of data through a group dynamic. The crowdsourced data collection is carried out using portable devices (GPS, PC, mobile phones) and the data is synchronized in the central database, accessible and shareable, based on services and maps on the web. Learn more in: Geographic Information Systems

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It is a new way of carrying out certain jobs, considered a trend that employs mass collaboration through new technologies for the execution of projects, it is a tool to outsource tasks and thus decrease the workload of members of a company, providing creativity and fresh air to certain processes. Crowdsourcing seeks to outsource or delegate tasks to leave them in charge of a large group of people or community. This community made up of qualified professionals, who present their proposals, ideas and nominations and the company will choose the most suitable person (s) to carry out different jobs, solve the most complex problems and contribute to the business development through new and relevant ideas. The objective is to carry out the tasks in a shorter period with more effective results thanks to more manpower and the contribution of solutions. In this way, the effort on the part of the client, supplier or company is reduced. The chosen or chosen within a community will be rewarded for their work in an economic, material or even labor way. Learn more in: Strategy From Human Talent

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In citizen-based journalism, crowdsourcing is a practice of asking citizens to cover a story and submit their reports, photos, and/or video for editing. The established news source then uses the submitted stories as source material to create a final story. Learn more in: Wiki Journalism

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Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. This process is often used to subdivide tedious work or to fund-raise startup companies and charities. It combines the efforts of numerous self-identified volunteers or part-time workers, where each contributor of their own initiative adds a small portion to the greater result. The term “crowdsourcing” is a portmanteau of “crowd” and “outsourcing”; it is distinguished from outsourcing in that the work comes from an undefined public rather than being commissioned from a specific, named group. Learn more in: Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil: A Brief Review

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A term describing outsourcing to bigger crowds or communities. Learn more in: Crowdcasting: A Platform Fostering Open Innovation

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Enlisting contributions of knowledge or content from the general public and especially from an online community. Learn more in: The Wheel of Wikipedia Collaborating at Boston University Libraries

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Practice of enlisting the help of many people in order to generate. content, particularly in online environments. Learn more in: Educational Technology and Intellectual Property

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A business model in which one party (an individual, a company, a NGO, a public institution) solicits a group of individuals for solving a task via the Internet. Learn more in: Crowdsourcing Business Model in the Context of Changing Consumer Society

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Gathering input and information from a large number of volunteers in order to produce reference material or achieve an outcome. Examples of crowdsourcing: Wikipedia, IMDB, and Amber Alerts. Learn more in: The Needle in the Haystack: How Information Overload Is Impacting Society and Our Search for Truth

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A modern business term to indicate the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by asking for contributions from an online community. Learn more in: Definition of a Protocol for the Knowledge, the Analysis and the Communication of the Architectural Heritage: Single Monument, Network of Monuments, Historic Settlement

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The organization's operation, consisting in the inclusion of virtual communities, in the form of an open call via an online platform, in problem solving, implementation of innovations or creating ideas or other tasks so far only implemented by the organization’s employees. Learn more in: Crowdsourcing Maturity and Its Application in Public Organization Management

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Is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a “crowd”), through an open call. Learn more in: Towards Crowd-Driven Business Processes

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Going to the mass public through social media accounts to acquire information or other resources for particular projects or endeavors. Learn more in: A Tale of Two Hyperlocal Family-Run Stores: Targeted Sector Supports for SMEs in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

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Collective intelligence gathered by volunteers. Learn more in: Crisis Informatics

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A method that involves and uses “crowds” (i.e., large, undefined, randomly distributed, undirected, unsupervised groups of people) to perform tasks and accomplish goals. Learn more in: Participatory and Appreciative Adult Learning and Reflection in Virtual Environments: Towards the Development of an Appreciative Stewardship

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As it relates to digital literacy, crowdsourcing is a type of online dialog in which contributors bring together varied backgrounds, experiences, and levels of expertise related to a defined topic. The crowd contributes to the discussion with the understanding that a common goal will be reached for the benefit of all contributors. Learn more in: Pedagogy and the New Literacies in Higher Education

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That is crowd (mass, multitude)+sourcing – has a substantial reference, though we proposed a reconnaissance of the main lines of research on the topic, focusing the analysis on social technology (McKinsey Research, 2012). Learn more in: Knowledge Sharing and Crowdsourcing as an Enterprise Opportunity

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Outsourcing of a formally internal conducted activity to a large and undefined or at least loosely defined crowd of people in form of an open call and, thus, to be distinguished from traditional outsourcing towards one or few contractors. Crowdsourcing can comprise of trivial, creative or complex tasks. Learn more in: Play or Vote: Matching Games as New Approach for Design Evaluation in Innovation Contests

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use of the knowledge and/or skills of a multitude of individuals in order to provide solutions, ideas, or improvements to a specific proposal put forward by one organization. Learn more in: Open Innovation as a Business Entrepreneurship Strategy: The Consumer as Value Creator in Digital Ecosystems

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Involves obtaining work, information, or opinions from a large group of people who submit their data via the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps. People involved in crowdsourcing sometimes work as paid freelancers, while others perform small tasks on a voluntary basis. Learn more in: Enhancing the Contracting Touch Points Through Innovation: For Architecture Design and Consulting Offices

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The activity of getting information or input for a task or a project in various sectors from a large and relatively open group of internet users. Learn more in: Explaining Government Crowdsourcing Decisions: A Theoretical Model

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Crowdsourcing is the act of collecting services, ideas, or content through the contributions of a large group of people. Learn more in: An Evaluation of New Work Practices After the Pandemic: Crowdworking

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A process for getting contributions (work or material), usually online, from a crowd of people, typically from outside the organization or company. Learn more in: Collective Intelligence in Online Education

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The process of obtaining knowledge support by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially from an online community. Learn more in: A Proposed Framework for Incorporating Big-Data Technology in National Crisis Management Center

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A business model in which one party (an individual, a company, a NGO, a public institution) solicits a group of individuals for solving a task via the Internet. Learn more in: The Application of Crowdsourced Processes in a Business Environment

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The practice of hiring a (large) group of people (the ‘crowd’) to accomplish a certain task, usually a repetitive task that does not require special training but that must be carried out over a large amount of data. Learn more in: An Overview (and Criticism) of Methods to Detect Fake Content Online

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The practice of obtaining input into a task by enlisting the services of a large number of people mainly via online channels such as the Internet and SNS. Learn more in: Improving Health and Efficiency With Strategic Social Media Use in Health Organizations: A Critical Review of the Status Quo

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This is a participatory activity online that involves two parties: the user and the company / brand. Learn more in: How the Crowdsourcing Enhance the Co-Creation Into the Virtual Communities

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The method of using skills or information provided by the public in order to resolve tasks in a collective manner through electronic means. Learn more in: Misuse of Information Technologies and Reliability of Information in New Media during Emergencies

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A process by which an organization or individual can exploit and connect information or solutions from a versatile spread group of people. Essentially, it can be described as an open call for proposals from the public hence providing real directions and needs for development where strategic development planning can rely on. Learn more in: Regional Development Getting Smarter with ICT

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The practice of inviting, via open calls, individuals, or groups to contribute to the completion of online tasks by sharing data or knowledge, completing given pre-defined tasks, or helping fund initiatives. These tasks can be either done for free or for different types of compensation. Learn more in: Digital Media and the COVID-19 Urban Crisis: What Can We Learn From the Crowdsourced Mappings in Brazil?

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A practice of engaging a group for a common goal, such as data collection, data analysis or dissemination information. Learn more in: Information as Humanitarian Aid: Delivering Digital Services to Empower Disaster-Affected Communities

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Production of segmented content by contributions of a large group of people. Learn more in: User-Generated Cinema: A New Way of Consumer Co-Creation?

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Crowdsourcing is the Information Technology mediated engagement of crowds for the purposes of problem-solving, task completion, idea generation, and production. Learn more in: Markov Decision Theory-Based Crowdsourcing Software Process Model

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Using technology to engage and collect citizen input; leveraging the ‘wisdom of the crowd’. Learn more in: The Influence of Technology on the Strategic Planning Process

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A process for getting contributions (work or material), usually online, from a crowd of people, typically from outside the organization or company. Learn more in: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Collective Intelligence Online

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Crowdsourcing is related to the act of collective intellectual gathering of information that comes from the public to be used in completing a business-related task. Learn more in: Integrating Big Data Technology Into Organizational Decision Support Systems

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This is a participatory activity online that involves two parties: the user and the company / brand. Learn more in: How the Crowdsourcing Enhance the Co-Creation Into the Virtual Communities

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Obtaining information’s or inputs by enlisting the paid, or normally unpaid services of a large number of people, typically via internet. Learn more in: The Integrated Tourism Analysis Platform (ITAP) for Tourism Destination Management

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An online participatory activity in which an organization proposes to a group of individuals of knowledge, heterogeneity and variable number, the voluntary performance of a task through a flexible open call. Learn more in: Intrapreneurship Initiative Based on an Internal Ideation Contest in the Public Sector: The Case of Madrid City Hall (Spain)