1. Crowdsourcing
Wikipedia says: "Crowdsourcing is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. This process can occur both online and offline. The difference between crowdsourcing and ordinary outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body, such as a paid employee."
Well ok, thats sounds promising as a definition. Now everybody should have a good idea what crowdsourcing is all about.
A person who has a task to do can charge an undefined crowd with his task. Like in the case of Goldcorp, the person or company or whatever can offer that undefined crowd a reward for the task.
Goldcorp? Oh yes I should explain :-) In the year 2000 Goldcorp offered 575,000$ as a reward to people who can identify on a property undiscovered veins of gold. That lead to a so called "Gold Rush 2.0" as Goldcorp used the internet to make the geological data available to the crowd.
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