Anand Giridharadas

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

American Author

Peter Diamandis

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

American Businessman

Freddie Wong

The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.

American Director

Harper Reed

Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital.

Crowdsourcing involves many people, highlighting the benefit of collective effort.

Large Scale

Online platforms are often used to reach a vast, diverse audience for crowdsourcing.

Internet Power

Crowdsourcing invites the general public to contribute, not just experts.

Public Involvement

 well you asked you asked how how did I get people to participate is that what you're asking what are you getting more people to participate using social media for your project or is it just free publicity and word of mouth sort of how do you get the people to sign on and help do the crowdsourcing how are they

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 How do we deal with that information that is coming in? You can't understand what is actually happening. On the ground and around the world people are still curious, and trying to figure out what is going on. But they don't know. So what we built of course, Ushahidi, is crowdsourcing this information.

Erik Hersman: How...

 Maybe even think about crowdsourcing with your neighbors the grid from the ground up, rather than waiting for the government to bring it from the top down. So in Africa, we have this extraordinary opportunity right now, an extraordinary opportunity, to change the world and create an energy system

The thrilling potential...

 smaller footprint it's actually a great way to save you some money and it's gonna give you a little more ease in your life so I started a project called life edited at life attitude org to further this conversation and to find some great solutions in this area first up crowdsourcing my 420 square

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 we are going to partnering with some incredible organizations, first of all with DigitalGlobe, the world's largest provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery. They're going to be helping us build out this amazing crowdsourcing platform they have. Maybe some of you used it

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 an opportunity in that to actually advance tornado science by better understanding the storm that caused there the disaster so we reached out on social media we did what we call crowdsourcing which is going on social media and requesting hey were you there did you see something

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 software for crowdsourcing information but then it's grown it's been five years now and it's starting to exemplify and to create that bridge between the idea of Africa and the idea of the technology world it's a connection and it actually showed that things can come out of

Maker space; supporting...

 anyway one unique characteristic about our food data engine is that every time someone scans the food we store it in our database and we learn better and our algorithms become more accurate so essentially this is actually a crowdsourcing project a community

Making food transparent...

 Which is why we only have drugs for a small proportion of diseases. But you could change all this. You could help discover new, cheaper drugs for currently untreatable diseases. It's all about medical crowdsourcing.

Should you donate your...

 stage and I made a wish born of a childhood dream to discover ancient sites now expanded to the world we spent the last year building globalexplorer an online citizen science crowdsourcing