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PyBossa is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human...
The PyBossa , an open source platform for crowdsourcing online-volunteer presents a number of important advantages when it comes to digital humanitarian response. One advantage is the...
Micro-task markets such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are promising platforms for conducting a variety of user study tasks, ranging from surveys to rapid prototyping to quantitative performance...
Despite a flurry of sites featuring micro jobs, the concept of crowdsourcing isn’t new, noted Sean Wise, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Ryerson University. “Now that we’ve...
“Crowdfunding has emerged as one of the most efficient and effective models for democratizing philanthropy, providing a direct conduit between those who need financial support and those who are...
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.
The clickworker.com platform has been providing micro jobs in the areas of text creation, web research, translations, tagging and data categorisation for the last five years. Worldwide over 300.000...
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...
With the advent of ever newer crowdsourcing services and mechanisms to develop altered standards of industrial and organizational structures, tasks are increasingly outsourced to the crowd, creating a completely new demand for interface functions between Crowd and Company.
Depending on the type of project, interface functions between the two should be a priority for both agencies and service providers, as well as enterprises (in the latter case, responsibility should initially fall on the Human Resources department).
In general, the service providers and crowdsourcing platforms themselves — of whatever kind, whether micro-tasks, creative or innovation — provide some degree support and advice, but often it’s not sufficient. A ‘Crowd Manager’ could help guide the crowd’s activity in the right direction.
Enterprise Crowdsourcing: The Shift from Jobs to Tasks can Reduce your Labor Costs by 30%. Companies are looking for new ways to reduce the cost of getting work done. Companies have hired...
Many of you will recognize Crowdsourcing.org’s “Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape” infographic — we published our updated November 2011 release a couple of days ago. This is the third generation of our taxonomy, which we first launched at CrowdConf2010. (More details on our revised industry taxonomy are available here.)
This taxonomy is broad, covering the primary categories where crowdsourcing can be applied from a high, distant perspective. For the last six months, however, we have undertaken detailed research initiatives with a number of leading crowdsourcing providers as well performing our own research where we looked at over 2,500 crowdsourcing use cases. This has resulted in the development of our Enterprise Use Case Framework.
Carl Esposti, Founder of Crowdsourcing.org, interviews David Alan Grier, First VP IEEE Computer Society, and Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University, where he also teaches a course on crowdsourcing. David is the author of When Computers Were Human. He discusses patterns evolving in Crowdsourcing, micro tasks, the parallel process of managing workers and delivering products and services to enterprise and his predictions for Crowdsourcing within a year.
swabr co-founder Lukas Pfeiffer is happy about the upcoming crowdfunding: "Currently, many innovative ideas emerge, but thereґs a lack of capital to realize them. We have backed swabr with...
Joshua Schachter , who created the social-bookmarking service Delicious, is back with Tasty Labs and today released Human.io, a platform for micro-task collaboration, and seems like a good platform...
The competition ends December 31, 2012, and radical new (or common sense) ideas are pouring in, including the following: Move to micro-tasking; Stop labeling workers “vampires” or...
Microworkers is an online platform that provides opportunities for both employers and workers all over the globe. Microworkers' unique approach guaratee employers that every task paid is...
The research makes three primary contributions: 1. Identifies the coordination requirements necessary to crowdsource complex tasks, and describe a framework to support a variety of task types....
The researchers are developing Shepherd, an infrastructure for managing and providing feedback to crowd workers. Their vision is to make targeted feedback a core component of future micro-task...
Developed by two idealistic Canadians and two open-minded Americans, the Cloud Labor platform CloudFactory, lauched this week in San Francisco, is an ambitious project based in Kathmandu, Nepal, with an objective to bring new opportunities of work to people in developing countries to help fight poverty.
Crowdsourcing.org had the opportunity to interview Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development of CloudFactory while he was in San Francisco for the launch of the platform at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference. We learned that CloudFactory is following a similar model to established providers such as CrowdFlower, Microtask and others. CloudFactory allows businesses to design virtual assembly lines for all types of digital work such as inputting data from handwritten forms, extracting data from images, flagging bad content and categorizing things. However, “The main difference between CloudFactory and its competitors is its free self-serve toolset that allows users to set-up their own workflows” Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development, informed us.
The advent of Mechanical Turk spawned startups like the Silicon Valley-based Crowdflower and Odesk, who offered to manage the outsourcing of work to micro-taskers around the globe. But the idea...
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