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The debate about the definition of crowdsourcing continues and the conversation inevitably draws to what exactly is and what isn’t crowdsourcing. While it’s interesting and fun to reference historical examples of open collaboration, it can actually confuse the dialogue. Historical examples are useful though in enabling a clear comparison with what we have chosen today to define as crowdsourcing.
The Longitude Prize of 1714, offering £20,000 in an open call to anyone that could come up with a way for merchants and sailors to navigate at sea, won by John Harrison, the son of a carpenter; the Niagara Suspension Bridge prize of 1847 offering a $10 prize to the person who could successfully lay the first line across the Niagara won by a young boy using a kite; the project to compile the first Oxford English Dictionary in the late 1890’s that involved a group of scholars breaking the work into manageable chunks and enlisting the support of the crowd – the examples are numerous! While these examples and many more show that open calls to undefined groups with the offer of a monetary or altruistic award is nothing new, they don’t fit with our definition of crowdsourcing!
Memeburn decided to take a look at a few pre web examples which show that crowdsourcing has been around since www was just three w’s stuck together. 1. The Longitude Prize 2. The Oxford...
A presentation by Gregory Phelan, during the public symposium ("Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking") in Washington, D.C. held last June 13,...
In this eighth episode of TEDxAmsterdam's Human Nature Forecast series, Robert van Meer and Tim Meuleman share their thoughts about the role of 'human nature' in crowdsourcing (part...
There is another growing trend that is now rivaling the growing power of robotics and automation – crowdsourcing. It all started with prizes like The Longitude Prize, but now with the power of...
According to author Patrick Meier, one of favorite examples of crowdsourcing during the Renaissance surrounds the invention of the marine chronometer, which completely revolutionized long...
Developers have to constantly generate new ideas but of course they are limited by their own staffing levels and their creativity. Crowdsourcing opens this up a bit but with it comes limitation...
Forbes contributor Raul Chao shares some of his thoughts on what Open Innovation is all about.
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