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Lilly Irani, a PhD candidate in informatics at the University of California at Irvine who has studied crowd-labor, says these unrepresented workers remain ripe for exploitation. After all, someone...
Crowdsourcing relies on the crowd for its very existence. Legal intervention can only buttress and protect the organized efforts of crowd workers; it cannot replace those efforts. If crowd workers...
The federal agency and Facebook launched the Social Jobs Partnership, (www.facebook.com/socialjobs) that will include links to employment services provided by the Department of Labor, the...
The crowdsourcing of basic knowledge tasks is a small but rapidly growing means for organizations to cost efficiently complete low value, repetitive work. However, recent research indicates that...
Crowd labor currently has some limitations — most offerings depend on specific platforms from individual vendors, and need to be more scalable. Once these limitations are overcome, opportunities...
But in Colombia, a new smart phone crowdsourcing application is helping authorities and researchers tackle the problem. Whenever users see a child working they can take a picture with their phone...
As part Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis' announcement, Facebook officials debuted a "social jobs partnership" page that highlights available training programs, educational...
As part of a recent collaboration with KL Communications, Crowdsourcing.org examined the five different kinds of crowdsourcing using sentiment analysis. This third report (in a six-article series) aims to determine how the world’s social media users feel about the 15 top Cloud Labor platforms.
A few weeks ago, I was attending the NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud. There, I ran into the NIST definition of cloud computing (PDF).
After reading it, I felt that it would be a nice exercise to transform the definition into something similar for the dual area of "cloud labor" (a.k.a. crowdsourcing).
The Geocenter recently tapped 145 volunteers to help pull together a map of loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries backed by USAID’s Development Credit Authority. The resulting map...
The Kid Rescue app from Telefónica Telecom in Colombia is now encouraging people to tackle crime by taking geotagged photographs when they spot young people illegally working. Since launching the...
Cloud labor is quietly but surely changing the way businesses operate by making completing tasks cheaper, faster, and more manageable. Today, new platforms are attempting to bridge the gap between the freelance and crowdsource models of cloud labor, hoping to get the advantages of both and to minimize each other’s shortcomings.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have recently created AutoMan, a new cloud labor algorithm that intends to outsource not the worker, but the boss.
CloudCrowd offers labor as a service through 24*7 labor-on-demand. CloudCrowd helps companies reduce costs and increase efficiency by breaking large projects into smaller tasks and distributing...
In online community based “labor on demand” models, employees are a crowdsourced workforce - who work from home, when needed, on specific projects. The aim is to get work done using a mass of...
Tuesday’s “Future of Crowdsourcing Summit”, orchestrated as a single event with simultaneous productions in San Francisco and Sydney linked by video and social media, was well executed and received positively as speakers, panelists and a highly engaged audience discussed the adoption, opportunities and consequences of crowdsourcing.
Does crowdsourcing, however, have the potential to be truly transformational at a macroeconomic level?
In my last post Crowdsourcing Implications for Medium and Large Businesses, I looked at some of the other uses of crowdsourcing beyond the more targeted applications that are being readily adopted by home-office entrepreneurs and small businesses. These included examples in the areas of open-innovation and customer engagement. Another crowdsourcing opportunity relates to the selective out-tasking of highly repetitive, high volume work to a distributed online, on-demand workforce.
In-game work does not conform to traditional employment law frameworks, but it still qualifies as work. Perhaps it has not developed to the point where an ethical judgment can be made as to whether...
What would you require to participate in a virtual "Early Stage Software Development Start Up Business" - on a part time basis - deferring a financial return on invested labor by...
In this presentation, John Horton suggests 3 things that economists and computer scientists should do for the online labor market: Increase demand for online work - Create work amenable to...
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