Crowd Sourcing

Crowdsourcing is typically an online effort to obtain information, ideas, content, services or input from a large group of people for a specific project or initiative, either paid or unpaid.

Definition

​Crowdsourcing is typically an online effort to obtain information, ideas, content, services or input from a large group of people for a specific project or initiative, either paid or unpaid. The goal of crowdsourcing is to source or divide work between numerous people, where each contributor adds a small contribution that is combined with other contributions to build on results. Crowdsourcing can range from commercial uses like My Starbucks Idea, to non-commercial uses like Wikipedia and crowdfunded solutions like Kickstarter.

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