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What is crowdsourcing
How crowdsourcing came about
The author of the term “crowdsourcing” is Jeff Howe, who introduced it into circulation in 2006. Then he, together with publisher Mark Robinson, published an article in which he described the principle of crowdsourcing and gave examples. In this article, crowdsourcing was compared to outsourcing to a greater extent, and the emphasis was on their differences: outsourcing is based on the completion of certain tasks by specialists for a monetary remuneration, and crowdsourcing involves the execution of work mainly by amateurs and without any monetary payment (or purely symbolic). Continue reading