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Definition of crowdsourcing
: the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers
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The cases were filed in 10 separate complaints to food-poisoning crowdsourcing site iwaspoisoned.com.
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The crowdsourcing project is part of a larger effort to gather more information on how giraffes live in the wild.
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Another app, called MiFlight, tries to predict wait times through crowdsourcing and offers airport maps (gomiflight.com). ‘
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The goal: to document and verify hate crimes and non-criminal incidents motivated by bias across the United States through a combination of traditional reporting and crowdsourcing leads.
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Joynt decided the best way to pay for the marker this time would be through crowdsourcing, with a goal of $2,100.
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There isn’t a flicker of musical edge on this album, only a belief in the crowdsourcing of ideas.
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As of Wednesday, the GoFundMe page had raised more than $79,000 to help with Ericson’s medical expenses, and was trending on the crowdsourcing website.
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And thus was born Roadmap, a new crowdsourcing tool for anyone and everyone interested in climate action.
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Origin and Etymology of crowdsourcing
2crowd + outsourcing
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