Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help analyze large amounts of data.
Recent examples of crowdsourcing
Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia edited by volunteers. The English Wikipedia currently contains over 2,000,000 articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
In 2005, Amazon.com launched the Amazon Mechanical Turk, a platform on which crowdsourcing tasks called "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks") can be created and publicized and people can execute the tasks and be paid for doing so. Dubbed "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", it was named after The Turk, an 18th century chess-playing "machine".
Searching the Nevada desert for the crash site of Steve Fossett.[1] and so on...............
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