Why the enterprises give the work to crowdsourcing to do?

  Why the enterprises give the work to crowdsourcing to do? There is an experiment from Page, the professor of California Institute of Techonoly : a group people from various kinds industry can solve problem better than a group specialist. Why? The reason is easy because the specialist's thought to solve problem has became fixed but people from different society level can have different ideas and may be sometimes works.


  I think the linux must be a very good example to prove this. We know linux is a computer operating system , just like the Windows of Microsoft. But compare to the Windows, linux is totally free and publish the source code. By this way, all the programmers from the world can  adjust the linux more excellent because different people can have some good thoughts to adjust linux by yourself and also  is it is free. I don't say the liunx is better than the Windows but it must has a reason to let many people like it.


  There is another example: red lake in Ontario of Canada, is one of the biggest gold field in the world. But in recent years, the gold company in this area always headache about the situation: they know the huge reserve but the company's geologist always can not to calculate the accurate reserve number and the position. It makes the company in trouble.
  
  The company decide to hold a competition named: gold challange  competition. They want to find someone or group can help them to deal with the problem, and also give the winner 570 thousands dollars as the award. To help the participator, the company published the secret data of geology in red lake area and create a new specific website to help people to download the data they want to know.


  Within a year, the website clicked by 500000 times form more than  50 countries, include professor , geologist,  mathematician and even officer..., they used what they can used , such as higher mathematics, intelligent system, computer image processing and so on that the company never used before. They give the company more than 100  potential locations and calculate reserve number, 50% are never been found before. The company then to do verify the data found they are totally  right. At last, 29 people from more than 5 countries distribute the award money. 

Jeff Howe - Crowdsourcing

crowdsourcing websites has made fundraising easier and more effective

Selling candy bars or applying for a bank loan is so 20th century. Now, there are more ways than ever to raise money thanks the to Internet. A huge market of do-it-yourself crowdsourcing websites has made fundraising easier and more effective.

The good news is that you don’t have to be a techie to access all of these great resources. Even the most adamant technophobe can get online and start raising money.

An important example of web-based crowdsourcing, is social bookmarking (also called collaborative tagging). In social bookmarking systems, users assign tags to resources shared with other users, which given rise to a type of information organisation that emerges from this crowdsourcing process. Other important examples are web-based idea competitions. Recent research has shown that consensus around stable distributions and a simple form of shared vocabularies does indeed emerge in such systems, even in the absence of a central controlled vocabulary

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.

Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. Problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. Users—also known as the crowd—typically form into online communities, and the crowd submits solutions. The crowd also sorts through the solutions, finding the best ones. These best solutions are then owned by the entity that broadcast the problem in the first place—the crowdsourcer—and the winning individuals in the crowd are sometimes rewarded.

The difference between crowdsourcing and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific other body. The difference between crowdsourcing and open source is that open source production is a cooperative activity initiated and voluntarily undertaken by members of the public. In crowdsourcing the activity is initiated by a client and the work may be undertaken on an individual, as well as a group, basis.Other differences between open source and crowdsourced production relate to the motivations of individuals to participate.


Crowdsourcing also has the potential to be a problem-solving mechanism for government and nonprofit use.Urban and transit planning are prime areas for crowdsourcing