After more than a decade of testing inside federal agencies, a crowdsourced innovation model that has delivered faster and ...

Earlier this year, eYeka, a crowdsourcing platform and online community of creators that allows companies to leverage crowdsourcing to generate new creative ideas, released a report on the State of ...

Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially an online community, rather than from employees or ...

Sometimes, being a part of a crowd is a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. Crowdsourcing was supposed to be the Big Idea that leveraged the interconnectedness of the Internet. Free information ...

The internet is typically defined by conflict. Yet a crowdsourced encyclopedia, open for anyone to edit, has transformed into ...

Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. Definitions and terms vary, but the basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to ...

In June 2006, Jeff Howe, an editor at Wired, published one of the first major features that documented the newfangled world of crowdsourcing. Back then, the online labor market was still ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As fast as things are changing, they are about to change even faster. Technology is making it progressively easier to access the ...

Crowdsourcing, by its very name, encourages a comparison to outsourcing. But when Wired first published the article that entered the term into the popular lexicon, it was far from clear whether the ...

In the 19th century, British scholars convened to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Rather than catalog the entire language on their own, they turned to the English public to ...

In recent years, corporations have turned to open innovation to solve their toughest research problems and reduce runaway costs of R&D. Now non-profits are beginning to see prize-based innovation as a ...

Crowdsourcing has become an answer for millions looking to pay their medical bills—one-third of all donations on GoFundMe goes towards health-care costs. In the fall of 2018, Vivian* went to her ...