Essays on Crowdsourcing

Evenzo is a service which claims to ease the hassle of venue acquisition for people who are having events. This is not a new service, as there are larger organizations dedicated to this such as Peerspace, EVENTup, and Venuefinder. They claim to offer a 10-15…

Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining information from a large number of people who are usually active in the online community. This involves the participation of a number of people with varying argumentative claim on a specific topic. This in turn has the ability to…

Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding are both different and alike in some ways. Crowdsourcing is more of a problem solving technique. It’s used to break problems down in a way that allows them to be solved in the quickest and most efficient way. It takes problems…

SPEAK is a crowdsourcing language and culture exchange between migrants and locals that breaks barriers, promotes multilingualism, equity and democratizes language learning. The number of migrants and refugees is now over 244 and 65 million worldwide, respectively. Challenges surface due to this increase, particularly those…

Introduction Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson intertwined the two words, crowd and sourcing. They brought this to the limelight in the Wired magazine in 2006, where the defined Crowdsourcing as a web based business strategy that takes advantage of solutions from the internet. The internet…