Crowdsourcing, be definition is a community based design model. It uses the power of many people to get a task done, vs using a few people for a very long time. It work well because people are willing to contribute small amounts of time or money to help the greater good, but often not willing to dedicating themselves to a project for a long period of time.
Early versions included the phone tree, where when a school or workplace closed due to bad weather, the boss called off work, and called the managers, who then called all employees in their departments to tell them work is closed. What could’ve taken 2 hours to call all the employees, can be cut down to maybe half an hour by crowdsourcing the work. Continue reading →