List of crowdsourcing projects
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- In 2005, Amazon.comAmazon.comAmazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
launched the Amazon Mechanical TurkAmazon Mechanical TurkThe Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
, a platform on which crowdsourcing tasks called "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks") can be created and publicized and people can execute the tasks and be paid for doing so. Dubbed "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", it was named after The TurkThe TurkThe Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player , was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an...
, an 18th century chessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
-playing "machine".
- The first crowd sourced documentary film is the non-profit "The American Revolution," which went into production in 2005, and which examines the role media played in the cultural, social and political changes from 1968 to 1974 through the story of underground, free-form radio station WBCN-FM in Boston. When the project began, by seeking archival contributions from the public, the term "crowd source" was not in use, and so the film was referred to as the "first open source documentary film." The film is being produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media and the non-profit Filmmakers Collaborative.
- Article One PartnersArticle One PartnersArticle One Partners, L.L.C. is a venture-funded online prior art search community based in New York City, New York.-History:The company was incorporated in November 2008 by founder Cheryl Milone...
, founded in 2008, is a community of technology experts who execute crowdsourced prior art search by researching and contributing information related to patents. By submitting research to the online platform, the community members compete for cash rewards, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. - Australian Historic Newspapers provided by the National Library of Australia encourages members of the public to correct/fix up/improve the electronically translated (OCR) text of old newspapers. This means the full-text search capability is instantly improved for everyone. The service was released in August 2008 and by March 2010 over 12 million lines of text had been improved by thousands of public users. This is the first library project in the world that has undertaken crowdsourcing on a large scale. The leader of the project Rose Holley is an advocate of using crowdsourcing to help libraries and archives expose and improve digital resources and has written articles about the Australian newspaper achievements and tips for libraries on how to crowdsource effectively.
- DARPA's Adaptive Vehicle MakeAdaptive Vehicle MakeAdaptive Vehicle Make is a portfolio of programs overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , of the United States Department of Defense. AVM attempts to address revolutionary approaches to the design, verification, and manufacturing of complex defense systems and vehicles...
is a project to crowdsource the design and manufacture of a new armoured vehicle.
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- Any software project with an open Beta test.
- BlueServoBlueServoBlueServo is an American company whose primary service is the Virtual Community Watch, a service which crowdsources the surveillance of the Texas-Mexico border and allows for users to anonymously report alleged entries of illegal immigrants to the United States Border Patrol, so that these...
is a free website which crowdsources surveillance of the Texas-Mexico border through live camera streams over the Internet. This evolved from an initiative taken by the State of Texas, which announced it would install 200 mobile cameras along the Texas-Mexico border, to enable anyone with an Internet connection to watch the border and report sightings of alleged illegal immigrants to border patrol agentsUnited States Border PatrolThe United States Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within U.S. Customs and Border Protection , a component of the Department of Homeland Security . It is an agency in the Department of Homeland Security that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to...
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- Cerberus can be defined as an automated processing engine to translate any type of photographic satellite data into usable GIS data by harnessing the power of the crowd. In the form of an interactive computer game players get to process photographs where they have to mark interesting features like river deltas on Mars, the evolution of glaciers on Earth and so on. Cerberus as a game is equipped with an extensive learning experience in order to ready the players to do the job. Because of this Cerberus serves three important factors within the space business which are E-learning, Outreach and Crowdsourcing. Cerberus participates in the ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk.
- CiscoCiscoCisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
Systems Inc. held an I-Prize contest in which teams using collaborative technologies created innovative business plans. The winners in 2008 was a three-person team, Anna Gossen from Munich, her husband Niels Gossen, and her brother, Sergey Bessonnitsyn, that created a business plan demonstrating how IP technology could be used to increase energy efficiency. More than 2,500 people from 104 countries entered the competition. The winning team won US$250,000.
- Civil War Diaries & Letters Transcription Project: help improve access to handwritten documents held by The University of Iowa Libraries.
- CloudCrowdCloudCrowdCloudCrowd was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter and operates in the crowdsourcing space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000...
, originally founded in 2009, is an online work platform that breaks work into serialized project workflows, and makes individual tasks available to crowdsourced workers.
- Crowdin, Online collaborative localization tool. Offers everything a software development company or independent developer need to run successful localization campaigns for themselves and their clients.
- CrowdIPR is a technology and patent research crowdsourcing company. It was founded in 2011 and is currently headquartered in Newcastle, United Kingdom.
- Crowdsourcing.org founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
- CrowdspringCrowdspringCrowdspring is one of the largest marketplaces in the world for crowdsourced creative services. Entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, big Brands and agencies who need a custom logo design, website design, other graphic design, industrial design or copywriting post what they need, when they...
is one of the largest marketplaces in the world for crowdsourced creative services. Launched in mid 2008, more than 100,000 designers and writers from over 200 countries work on crowdSPRING, helping entrepreneurs, startups, small businesses, big Brands and agencies with logo design, web design, illustration, other types of graphic design, industrial design and copywriting. Buyers who need a custom logo design, website design, other graphic design, industrial design or copywriting post what they need, when they need it and how much they'll pay. Once posted, creatives from around the world submit actual work. Buyers choose from among actual work (currently an average of more than 110 entries per project), not bids and proposals.
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- The Democratic National CommitteeDemocratic National CommitteeThe Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...
launched FlipperTV in November 2007 and McCainpedia in May 2008 to crowdsource video gathered by Democratic trackers and research compiled by DNC staff in the hands of the public to do with as they choose — whether for a blog post, to create a YouTube video, etc.
- DesignBay, a crowdsourcing marketplace for graphic design and creative services, launched in February 2008 and helped run a contest for global footwear company HI-TEC. HI-TEC "estimated that using DesignBay.com [and crowdsourcing] for the project saved HI-TEC up to half the costs of going down the usual design route"
- DeignInARK deliver high-impact creative results to anyone who has a design project. Companies are already using people power to solve complex business problems, often working faster than one person or company. Sometimes all you need is a good idea. DesignInARK.com is here, on the market, to help companies find this good idea that will differentiate them from their competitors. We will help this companies to fulfil their creative project by obtaining the opinion of their public in the same time.
DesignInARK.com Redefine Creative Contests
Anticipating the way freelancers and companies want to use a crowdsourcing website DesignInARK.com launch a new platform for creative contests where freelancers are protected during the creative process by all blind contests system and where customers brand protection is a priority.
DesignInARK.com
- The search for aviator Steve FossettSteve FossettJames Stephen Fossett was an American commodities trader, businessman, and adventurer. Fossett is the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon...
, whose plane went missing in Nevada in 2007, in which up to 50,000 people examined high-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobeDigitalGlobeDigitalGlobe, of Longmont, Colorado, USA, is a commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft...
that was made available via Amazon Mechanical TurkAmazon Mechanical TurkThe Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
. The search was ultimately unsuccessful. Fosset's remains were eventually located by more traditional means. DigitalGlobeDigitalGlobeDigitalGlobe, of Longmont, Colorado, USA, is a commercial vendor of space imagery and geospatial content, and operator of civilian remote sensing spacecraft...
satellite imagery had previously been posted to Amazon Mechanical TurkAmazon Mechanical TurkThe Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
after the disappearance of computer scientist Jim Gray at sea in January 2007, an effort that had attracted much media attention, but not provided any new clues.
- Dickens Journals online http://www.djo.org.uk/ is a collaborative effort to digitize and edit journals of Charles DickensCharles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
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- Distributed ProofreadersDistributed ProofreadersDistributed Proofreaders is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors.- History :...
(commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a Web-based project founded in 2000 by Charles Franks that supports the development of e-texts for Project GutenbergProject GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...
by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors. As of October 2011, over 21,000 e-texts have been produced by DP. There are also offshoots (sister sites) such as DP-Europe and DP-Canada.
- The Do Good Gauge is a research proposalResearch proposalA research proposal is a document written by a researcher that describes in details the program for a proposed. It is like an outline of the entire research process that gives a reader a summary of the information discussed in a project....
. The many essays describe the problem or give direction to solution in the inefficiencies of political and social discourse. The website attempts to facilitate public authorship in pursuit of civic virtueCivic virtueCivic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community. The identification of the character traits that constitute civic virtue have been a major concern of political philosophy...
. The website and its application called Pay the Thought Forward is used to propagate the refinement of the idea.
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- EmporisEmporisEmporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The company collects and publishes data and photographs of buildings worldwide....
, a provider of building data, has run the Emporis Community (a website where members can submit building information) since May 2000. Today, more than 1,000 members contribute building data throughout the world.
- The ESP GameESP GameThe ESP Game is an idea in computer science for addressing the problem of creating difficult metadata.The idea behind the game is to use the computational power of humans to perform a task that computers cannot yet do by packaging the task as a game.It was originally conceived by Luis von Ahn of...
by Luis von AhnLuis von AhnLuis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009...
(later acquired by GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
and renamed Google Image LabelerGoogle Image LabelerGoogle Image Labeler was a feature, in the form of a game, of Google Image Search that allowed the user to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results...
) started in 2003 and gets people to label images as a side-effect of playing a game. The image labels can be used to improve image search on the Web. This game led to the concept of Games with a purpose.
- EteRNAEteRNAEteRNA is a browser based game, developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, that engages users to solve puzzles related to the folding of RNA molecules...
, a game in which players attempt to design RNARNARibonucleic acid , or RNA, is one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life....
sequences that fold into a given configuration. The widely varied solutions from players, often non-biologists, are evaluated to improve computer models predicting RNA folding. Some designs are actually synthesized to evaluate the actual folding dynamics and directly compare with the computer models.
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- FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
has used crowdsourcing since 2008 to create different language versions of its site. The company claims this method offers the advantage of providing site versions that are more compatible with local cultures.
- FamilySearch IndexingFamilySearch IndexingFamilySearch Indexing is a volunteer project established and run by FamilySearch, a genealogy organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The project aims to create searchable digital indexes for scanned images of historical documents...
is a volunteer project which aims to create searchable digital indexes for scanned images of historical documents. The documents are drawn primarily from a collection of 2.4 million microfilms made of historical documents from 110 countries and principalities. Volunteers install free software on their home computers, download images from the site, type the data they read from the image into the software, and submit their work back to the site. The data is eventually made publicly and freely available at FamilySearch.org (the world's largest nonprofit genealogical organization) for use in genealogicalGenealogyGenealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
research. Over 650 million historical records have been transcribed to date.
- There is an ongoing effort by United States Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications CommissionThe Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) to use crowdsourcing to collect ideas on how to best build out America's broadband infrastructure. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 calls for increased broadband deployment. The site, broadband.ideascale.com http://broadband.ideascale.com, allows a citizen to post an idea related to this initiative. Other visitors are invited to vote the ideas up or down. The ideas and comments have been made part of the public record.
- FolditFolditFoldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry...
invites the general public to play protein folding games to discover folding strategies. Citing FolditFolditFoldit is an online puzzle video game about protein folding. The game is part of an experimental research project, and is developed by the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry...
, MSNBC's Alan Boyle reported that "video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years," indicating that they "figure(d) out the detailed molecular structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus found in rhesus monkeys."
- FoxTranslate, based in San Francisco, CA, specializes in translating document by using its network of professional translators crowdsourced from over 20 different countries.
- Freelancer.comFreelancer.comFormerly known as GetAFreelancer.com, the company was founded in 2004 by Plendo Sweden, headed up by Magnus Tibell of Swedish web solutions company Innovate It. GetAFreelancer.com was bought on the 7th May 2009 by the Australian company Ignition Networks...
started out in Sweden in 2004 as GetAFreelancer.com, and is now owned by Sydney, Australia-based Ignition Networks. M Barrie, the CEO, claims the company is the largest outsourcing site in the world, receiving more global traffic than competitor elance. The site has 1.5 million users in 234 countries and the average job size is under $200 and it projects a US$50 million in project turnover in the next 12 months. The site takes a 10 percent cut on work allocated.
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- Galaxy ZooGalaxy ZooGalaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research. An improved version—Galaxy...
is a citizen scienceCitizen scienceCitizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis...
project that lets members of the public classify a million galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky SurveySloan Digital Sky SurveyThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-filter imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project was named after the Alfred P...
. The project has led to numerous scientific papers and citizen scientist-led discoveries such as Hanny's VoorwerpHanny's Voorwerp' , Dutch for Hanny's object, is an astronomical object of unknown nature. It was discovered in 2007 by Dutch school teacher Hanny van Arkel, while she was participating as an amateur volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project...
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- General ElectricGeneral ElectricGeneral Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
organized a multi-million dollar challenge to find new, breakthrough ideas to create cleaner, more efficient and economically viable grid technologies, and to accelerate the adoption of smart grid technologies. The winner will be announced on Nov. 16, 2020,
- GeniusRocketGeniusRocketGeniusRocket is a small creative advertising firm specializing in video production through a curated creative community. The company uses a unique hybrid model referred to as curated crowdsourcing to produce a wide variety of creative video content, including live action, motion graphics, and...
is a crowdsourcing advertising agencyAdvertising agencyAn advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
that uses an online community of thousands of artists from around the world.
- Get a Slogan is a sloganSloganA slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm . Slogans vary from the written and the...
development service based on crowdsourcing. Clients organize slogan contests and sloganeers provide slogan suggestions. Clients rate suggestions in order to get even better slogans. Crowdsourcing is used to maximize creativity.
- Get Localization, founded in 2009, is hosting several software and web-page translation crowdsourcing projects. Developers upload their content to service allowing their existing community participate to translation work.
- The Canadian gold mining group GoldcorpGoldcorpGoldcorp Inc. is a gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Goldcorp has 16 operations and development projects in 6 countries across the Americas....
made 400 megabytes of geological survey data on its Red Lake, Ontario, property available to the public over the Internet. They offered a $575,000 prize to anyone who could analyze the data and suggest places where gold could be found. The company claims that the contest produced 110 targets, over 80% of which proved productive; yielding 8 million ounces of gold, worth more than $3 billion. The prize was won by a small consultancy in Perth, Western Australia, called Fractal Graphics.
- Gooseberry PatchGooseberry PatchGooseberry Patch was founded in 1984 by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, who were neighbors. Before starting their catalog business Martin was a first-grade teacher, and Hutchins was a flight attendant....
, has been using crowd-sourcing to create their community-style cookbooks since 1992. Friends, buyers, fans, sales people are all encouraged to submit a recipe. Each contributors' recipe that is selected is recognized in the book and receives a free copy.
- The Great War Archive, was a 2008 project led by the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
that asked members of the general public to digitise any artefacts they held relating to the First World War and upload them to a purpose built website. The project successfully released over 6500 items and stories online which can be freely downloaded and used for education and research. The project was funded by the Joint Information Systems CommitteeJoint Information Systems CommitteeJISC is a United Kingdom non-departmental public body whose role is to support post-16 and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of ICT in learning, teaching, research and administration...
. In 2011, the group received further funding from EuropeanaEuropeanaEuropeana.eu is an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe...
to run a similar crowdsourcing initiative in Germany.
- The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
s investigation into the MP Expense Scandal in the United Kingdom. The newspaper created a system to allow the public to search methodically through 700,000 expense-claim documents. Over 20,000 people participated in finding erroneous and remarkable expense claims by Members of Parliament.
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- In 2009/10 a website was created called HaveYouGotTheNerve.Tv which was subsequently shortened to Nerve.tv. This was set up by a man called Mark Bowness who wanted to create the first crowdsourced tv production company. In order to do this, he made around 1,000 people executive producers in the company and gave them a share in the company in return for £60.00. The idea was ingenious, however despite strong support the idea never made it off the ground. Today both websites and the company (according to Companies House) remain dormant.
- The Vancouver Police DepartmentVancouver Police DepartmentThe Vancouver Police Department is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.VPD was the first Canadian police force...
has put up a website entitled Hockey Riot 2011, informing people about the VPD′s investigations into the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riotThe 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance that broke out in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The riots happened immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley...
. It also asks people to contribute any pictures or video that they may have taken during the riot, with the goal of identifying people who may have participated in the rioting. The site also reminds people to not use social media to take justice into their own hands, instead leaving it to the police. As of July 1, 2011, 101 arrests have been made.
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- IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
collected over 37,000 ideas for potential areas for innovation from brainstorming sessions with its customers, employees and their family members in 2006.
- ImageBrief is a new SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
start-up (2011) and is the world’s first crowd-sourced image library. ImageBrief is an interactive platform for image buyers and sellers. Buyers engage with photographers providing references, samples and feedback when the brief is active. Buyers can post a brief for an immediate image requirement and photographers submit images that are tailored to the buyer’s request. ImageBrief provides a secure platform for the image tender process, award, payment, legal agreements and high resolution image download.
- The Infinity: The Quest for Earth MMOG project does not accept monetary donations, only contributions of concept art, 3D models, textures, sound effects, musical compositions and sometimes even programming of standalone prototypes which could help development of the game. By the end of 2009 having contributions of more than 150 modeled ships, buildings and space stations, about 500 musical compositions from which 20% are considered for inclusion in the game.
- InnoCentiveInnoCentiveInnoCentive is an "open innovation" company that takes research and development problems in a broad range of domains such as engineering, computer science, math, chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and business and frames them as "challenge problems" for anyone to solve them...
, started in 2001, crowdsources research and developmentResearch and developmentThe phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
for biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, among other companies in other industries. InnoCentive provides connection and relationship management services between "Seekers" and "Solvers." Seekers are the companies searching for solutions to critical challenges. Solvers are the 185,000 registered members of the InnoCentive crowd who volunteer their solutions to the Seekers. Anyone with interest and Internet access can become an InnoCentive Solver. Solvers whose solutions are selected by the Seekers are compensated for their ideas by InnoCentive, which acts as broker of the process. InnoCentive recently partnered with the Rockefeller FoundationRockefeller FoundationThe Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
to target solutions from InnoCentive's Solver crowd for orphan diseases and other philanthropic social initiatives.
- Innovation ExchangeInnovation ExchangeInnovation Exchange Inc. is an open innovation vendor. IX operates a website which acts as a platform for companies and non-profit organizations to present innovation challenges to a community of innovators. This community is constituted of individuals as well as small and midsize businesses...
is an open innovationOpen InnovationAlthough the idea and discussion about some consequences date back at least to the 60s, open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new...
vendor which emphasizes community diversity; it sources solutions to business problems from both experts and novices. Companies sponsor challenges which are responded to by individuals, people working in ad hoc teams, or by small and midsize businesses. In contrast to sites focused primarily on innovation in the physical sciences, Innovation Exchange fosters product, service, process, and business model innovationBusiness model innovationBusiness Model Innovation refers to the creation, or reinvention, of a business itself. Whereas innovation is more typically seen in the form of a new product or service offering, a business model innovation results in an entirely different type of company that competes not only on the value...
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- Industrial Methodology for Process Verification of Research or IMPROVER is a new peer review scheme for quality assurance in systems biology research. IMPROVER was created due to the increased strain of the peer review system, which is currently overwhelmed. It has been estimated from PubMed that in the last decade the growth rate of scientific publications was 5.6% per year, or equivalently, a doubling time of 13 years. This has resulted in increasing the burden on peer reviewers, which also questions whether the current peer review system can objectively assess the quality and nature of the high throughput data and the validity of the sophisticated analysis and interpretations that currently pervades systems biology publications.
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- JURATIS is a US based legal crowd sourcing site launched in 2011 that allows users to ask and answer questions on any legal matter. The project states that it intents to become the largest legal knowledge base.
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- The Katrina PeopleFinder ProjectKatrina PeopleFinder ProjectThe Katrina PeopleFinder Project was set up in early September, 2005 in response to the dozens of groups collecting "lost and safe" lists for people affected by Hurricane Katrina....
used crowdsourcing to collect data for lost persons. Over 4,000 people donated their time after Hurricane KatrinaHurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
. It included 90,000 entries. - KaggleKaggleKaggle is a platform for data analytics competitions founded in April 2010. Companies and researchers post their data. Statisticians and data miners from all over the world compete to produce the best models...
is platform for data prediction competitions. Kaggle facilitates better predictions by providing a platform for machine learning, data prediction and bioinformatics competitions. The platform allows organizations to have their data scrutinized by the world's best statisticians.
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- Lánzanos is a spanish crowdfunding platform which allows people to find financing for their own projects
- Lawn Mowing Online is a unique service in that instead of the traditional approach of using skilled laborers to mow lawns they offer the jobs to a large group of local individuals through an open call. This has allowed them to regularly mow lawns with just a day's notice over 1,000 miles away and have given almost 300 people (as of April 2011) the opportunity to earn semi-regular income while providing services much cheaper than a traditional lawn care service.
- LetterRep.com is an crowdsourced letter writing service with writers from around the world. Site operation involves customers submitting requests for letters to be written; the requests are broadcast via email to the site's 3500+ writers worldwide. Writers compose letters in response to requests and post them back to the site which notifies requesters via email as new letters are posted. Requesters review the submitted letters and choose the one(s) that best suit their needs and situation.
- In 2010 the Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
received, as a donation, the Liljenquist family's collection of photographs of the American Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. With most of the people and photographers unidentified, the Library posted the images on FlickrFlickrFlickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
and sought the public's help in providing information: "Please let us know if you recognize a face from your family, a regiment, or a photographer’s painted studio backdrop!" - Life in a Day (2011 film) is Kevin MacdonaldKevin MacDonald (director)Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish director, best known for his films One Day in September, State of Play, The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void.-Personal life:...
's 95-minute documentary filmDocumentary filmDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips (4500 hours) submitted to the YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day. Yumi Goto of TIME LightBoxTime (magazine)Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
remarked that "the most striking aspect of this documentary is that it’s the first crowdsourcedCrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
, user-generated content to hit the big screen." - lingoking is a German telephone interpreting service, which uses crowdsourcing to distribute interpreting assignments to interpreters all over the world.
- L'OrealL'OréalThe L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...
used viewer-created advertising messages of Current TVCurrent TVCurrent TV, or Current, is a media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. Comcast owns a ten percent stake of Current's parent company, Current Media LLC....
to pool new and fresh advertising ideas. - Lucky Rentals turned over its marketing to 100 complete strangers for 100 days using Fiverr.com which is a hugely popular online market where sellers offer services for $5.
- Local By Us is crowd-sourced local news, events, opinions and classifieds for anywhere that can be found on a google map.
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- MicrotaskMicrotaskMicrotask is a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009 to create a technology platform for crowdsourcing and distributed work....
is a company that has developed a software platform for global distribution of short-duration tasks to online workers. The system supports automated quality assurance and provides service-level agreements for task quality and turnaround times. - Mob4HireMob4HireMob4Hire is a privately held Canadian Web 2.0 company that focuses on crowd sourced mobile application testing services and market research in the global wireless telephony space....
is the world's largest mobile testing and market research community. They currently list over 1,100 developers in 86 countries and more than 45,000 testers on 350 carriers in 150 countries. The company recently won a Meffy award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum for 'Most Innovative Business Model'. - MindpixelMindpixelMindpixel was a web-based collaborative artificial intelligence project which aimed to create a knowledgebase of millions of human validated true/false statements, or probabilistic propositions. It ran from 2000 to 2005.-Description:...
was an online artificial intelligence project to build a knowledgebase of true/false statements, and ran from 2000 to 2005.
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- Netflix PrizeNetflix PrizeThe Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings....
, was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm that predicts user ratings for films, based on previous ratings. The competition was held by Netflix, an online DVD-rental service, and was completed in September 2009. The grand prize of $1,000,000 was reserved for the entry which best shows Netflix's own algorithm for predicting ratings by 10%. Netflix provided a training data set of over 100 million ratings that more than 480,000 users gave to nearly 18,000 movies, which is one of the largest real real-life data sets available for research. The related forum maintained by Netflix has seen lively discussions and contributed a lot to the success of this competition. A very relevant fact to the power of crowdsourcing is that among the top teams are not only academic researchers, but laymen with no prior exposure to collaborative filtering (virtually learning the problem space from scratch).
- NinesigmaNineSigmaNineSigma is an open innovation services provider that helps client companies develop and maximize value from their innovation programs. In 2008, NineSigma ranked among the top 20 percent of companies on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States...
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- Old WeatherOld WeatherOld Weather is an online weather data project that invites members of the public to assist in digitising weather observations recorded in Royal Navy log books during the early twentieth century. Earlier material may be incorporated in future. It is an example of citizen science that enlists members...
is a web-based effort to transcribe weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes and will be of use to Historians in tracking past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.
- The Open Source Science ProjectThe Open Source Science ProjectThe Open Source Science Project is a web-based social business wholly dedicated to rendering transparent the 'black-box' of contemporary scientific research and increasing its accessibility by affording all individuals - irrespective of geographic, cultural, socio-economic, academic, or personal...
, founded in 2008, is a web-based social businessSocial businessSocial business, as the term is commonly used, was first defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and is described in his books Creating a world without poverty—Social Business and the future of capitalism and Building Social Business—The new kind of capitalism that serves...
that maintains a research microfinance platform through which undergraduate students may propose research-based approaches to solving the world's most pressing problems; and receive funding (in the form of microinvestments) from the broader online community. In addition, The OSSP seeks to develop an openly-accessible research-based scientific curriculum that will greatly increase global access to cutting edge research information at no cost. It is wholly dedicated to rendering transparent the 'black-box' of scientific research by affording all individuals - irrespective of geographic, cultural, socio-economic, academic, or personal background; the opportunity to participate directly in the scientific research process.
- The Open Dinosaur Project is a community research project to aggregate published measurements of ornithischian dinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
limb bones for many different taxa in order to study the multiple evolutionary transitions from bipedality to quadrupedality in this group of dinosaurs. The Open Dinosaur Project was founded to involve scientists and the public alike in developing a comprehensive database of dinosaur limb bone measurements, to investigate questions of dinosaur function and evolution. The measurements gathered by the community participants will be analyzed by the project leaders and results will be published in an open access peer-reviewedPeer reviewPeer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
scientific journal. All contributors will be listed as co-authors on the eventual publication.
- OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The...
is a free editable map of the world, which has over 100,000 signed up contributors in mid 2009. Creation and maintenance of geospatial data is a labor intensive task which is expensive using traditional approaches, and crowdsourcing is also being used by commercial companies in this area including Google and TomTom.
- Oxfam NovibOxfam NovibOxfam Novib is the Dutch affiliate of the international Oxfam organization. It is an association dedicated to establishing a fair world with no poverty in it. The organization is based in The Hague.Oxfam Novib was founded under the name Novib in 1956...
(Netherlands) mid 2008 launched a crowdsourcing initiative named Doeners.net, meant for people to support the organization's campaigning activities.
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- Prova (Swedish for "to try") launched December, 2008 as a crowdsource marketplace that connects businesses with professional ad designers to create print designs, audio ads, video content, and digital designs. Ad designers from all over the world compete for ad creation projects listed on the site.
- There is currently an effort to use crowdsourcing to purchase the Pabst Brewing CompanyPabst Brewing CompanyPabst Brewing Company is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and by 1889 named after Frederick Pabst. It is currently the holding company contracting for the brewing of over two dozen brands of beer and malt liquor from defunct companies...
. Users pledge money toward the $300 million purchase price and, if the project is successful, receive part ownership of the company and free beer proportional to their donation amount.
- PepsiPepsiPepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo...
launched a marketing campaign in early 2007 which allowed consumers to design the look of a Pepsi can. The winners would receive a $10,000 prize, and their artwork would be featured on 500 million Pepsi cans around the United States.
- The Phoenix Quran Project is a FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
Page for a volunteer charitable crowdsourcing project launched in 2011 to "Resurrect a Quran," as an assemblage of over 6000 1-verse postcards to be mailed in from across the United States, for reassembly into a gift Qur'an to be donated to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, TN (a victim of local anti-1st-Amendment lawsuits, arson and vandalism.)
- The Phylo video game invites players to give in to their addictive gaming impulses while contributing to the greater good by trying to decode the code for genetic diseases.
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- reCAPTCHAReCAPTCHAreCAPTCHA is a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus. It uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. On September 16, 2009, Google acquired reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is currently...
uses CAPTCHACAPTCHAA CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. The process usually involves one computer asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade...
to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. Humans are presented images of the book, and asked to provide the corresponding text. Twenty years of The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
have already been digitized.
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- Secret LondonSecret LondonSecret London is a Facebook group started by 21-year-old Bristol University graduate, Tiffany Philippou, on 19 January 2010 in response to a Saatchi & Saatchi competition . The group grew rapidly and is composed mostly of Londoners who use the site to share suggestions and photos of London...
is composed mostly of Londoners who use the site to share suggestions and photos of London. Originally started as a FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
Group in 2010 in response to a competition to win an internship at Saatchi & SaatchiSaatchi & SaatchiSaatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 80 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in London in 1970 but now headquartered in New York. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London...
, Secret London gained 150,000 members within 2 weeks. This early popularity prompted its founder, Tiffany Philippou to appeal to the community to help build the group a website, which was launched 10 days later.
- SeeClickFixSeeClickFixSeeClickFix is a web tool that allows citizens to report non-emergency neighborhood issues, which are communicated to local government, as a form of community activism. It has an associated free mobile phone application....
is a web tool that allows citizens to report non-emergency neighborhood issues, which are communicated to local governmentLocal governmentLocal government refers collectively to administrative authorities over areas that are smaller than a state.The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government...
, as a form of community activismActivismActivism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...
. It has an associated free mobile phoneMobile phoneA mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
application. Similar to FixMyStreetFixMyStreetFixMyStreet is a mySociety website through which users can report potholes, broken street lights and similar problems with streets and roads in England, Scotland and Wales to their local council or related organisation, and see what reports have already been made.-History:The site was initially...
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- setiQuestSetiQuestsetiQuest is a project of the SETI Institute, whose declared aim is to "globalize the search for extra-terrestial intelligence and empower a new generation of SETI enthusiasts", by creating means for a deeper involvement from the interested public...
is a citizen scienceCitizen scienceCitizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis...
project that allows people with any level of science background to look for signs of technologically advanced civilizations in data collected from space. The goal is to answer the question - "Are we alone?"
- SmartsheetSmartsheetSmartsheet is an online project management and crowdsourcing tool. It allows owners of information to comprehensively involve contributors through authenticated access, publicly-accessible published sheets, or via embeddable survey forms. Functionality is focused on the ability to organize, share,...
is an online software service and consultancy that enables businesses to track and manage work through online sharing and crowdsourcing methods. The company's Smartsourcing service enables people to anonymously submit and manage all phases of crowdsourced work processing. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is one of the work exchange platforms with which Smartsheet is integrated.
- SocialAttire is an online platform that allows fashion professionals, design students, and anyone else with an idea to freely upload sketches and sample dresses they've designed. The community votes on their favorite styles, and every two weeks, the most popular dress is produced and sold on the website.
- Squadhelp is a crowdsourcing platform that helps entrepreneurs and small business owners outsource their branding, marketing and web design tasks to hundreds of freelancers. The projects run in the form of contests and the best submission wins the award (which is prepaid by the contest holder).
- Stardust@HomeStardust@homeStardust@home is a citizen science project that encourages volunteers to search images for tiny interstellar dust impacts. The project began providing data for analysis on August 1, 2006....
is an ongoing citizen scienceCitizen scienceCitizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of natural phenomena; and the dissemination of these activities by researchers on a primarily avocational basis...
project, begun in 2006, utilizing internet volunteer "clickworkers" to find interstellar dust samples by inspecting 3D images from the Stardust spacecraftStardust (spacecraft)Stardust is a 300-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on February 7, 1999 to study the asteroid 5535 Annefrank and collect samples from the coma of comet Wild 2. The primary mission was completed January 15, 2006, when the sample return capsule returned to Earth...
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- Student of FortuneStudent of FortuneStudent of fortune is an United States-based company that provides an Online tutoring marketplace. The company was founded by Sean McCleese in 2006, shortly after graduating from Occidental College. In an interview with The Daily Trojan, McCleese described the way the company's site operates as...
is an online service that allows students to submit homework problems for tutors to answer through a tutorial service for a fee. Started by a high school dropout.
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- Transcribe Bentham is a pioneering crowdsourced manuscript transcription project, which is making available digital images of the vast Bentham Papers collection (c.60,000 manuscript folios) held by University College London via a customised MediaWiki. Anyone, anywhere in the world can transcribe the manuscripts, and encode their work in Text-Encoding Initiative-compliant XML in order to assist the UCL Bentham Project in producing the new and authoritative edition of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, and create a freely-accessible and searchable digital repository. Transcribe Bentham was honoured with an Award of Distinction in the 'Digital Communities' category of the 2011 Prix Ars ElectronicaPrix Ars ElectronicaThe Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
, the worlds premier digital arts competition.
- TeamSurv is aproject for crowd sourcing position and depth data from boats, to improve the accuracy and coverage of bathymetric data for nautical charts and scientific/ecological applications.
- TunedIT is an online laboratory for data scientists, with Challenges platform that hosts programming competitions in data miningData miningData mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
, machine learningMachine learningMachine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
and artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
, for crowdsourcing of intelligent algorithms.
- Thomas Maxwell Associates is a relatively new project looking to harness the power of crowdfunding to setup a small business investment company. It employs a simple method, but this model varies to most other crowdfunded business models in that whilst each member funds the start-up, they continually pay a membership fee to remain a member and in return for this they get a percentage of the profits. This is in effect taking an aging concept and updating it.
- Tribevine is a project that collects sports and outdoor gear information into a user edited semi structured product information database.
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- UnileverUnileverUnilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
has recently decided to drop its ad agency of 16 years, Lowe, and has turned to the crowdsourcing platform IdeaBounty to find creative ideas for its next TV campaign. Unilever has worked with Lowe on the snack food brand PeperamiPeperamiPeperami is a pork sausage snack manufactured by Unilever in Germany and Britain. According to Unilever, it was first shipped to the UK by accident in a container which was supposed to be carrying pâté. The company decided to attempt to sell the shipment to the UK market under the brand name...
since 1993, but has decided to submit their brief out to the public, rather than a small team of creatives.
- UshahidiUshahidiUshahidi, Inc. is a non-profit software company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping....
(SwahiliSwahili languageSwahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
for "testimony" or "witness") is a website created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election (see 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis2007–2008 Kenyan crisisThe 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis refers to a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in Kenya after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Kibaki's opponent, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic...
) that collected eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google map. It is also the name of the open sourceOpen sourceThe term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software developed for that site, which has since been improved, released freely, and used for a number of similar projects.
- uTestUtestuTest, Inc. is a venture-funded software testing marketplace based in Southborough, Massachusetts.-History:The company was incorporated in August 2007 by founders Doron Reuveni and Roy Solomon...
's business model is based on the idea that crowdsourcingCrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
is better suited to web and mobile app testing than other outsourcing models.
- Userfarm Userfarm is the first international platform of video crowdsourcing, the easiest choice to make video content. Brands, Agencies, Publishers and Broadcasters can access on UserFarm a network of more than 20.000 videomakers able to create a full range of different forms of video content:
- real life: video diaries, documentaries, stories of journeys in videos made by the video makers of UserFarm
- journalism: local news, sport events, event coverage and interviews done by mobile journalists
- advertising: TV spots, viral videos, tutorials for any product or service
- how to: video advice for a wide range of topics, from bricolage to looking after home pets
- fiction: shorts, parodies, comedy sketches, mash ups
- other: videoart, cartoons, music videos and talent scouting
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- VenCorps, founded in 2008, is a venture capital fund which invests based upon crowd-sourced decisions.
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- WazeWazeWaze is a free GPS application featuring turn-by-turn navigation, developed by the Israeli start-up Waze Mobile for mobile phones. It currently supports iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and BlackBerry. Waze differs from traditional GPS navigation software as it is a community-driven...
is a free turn-by-turn GPS application for mobile phones that uses crowdsourcing to provide routing and real-time traffic updates.
- We Are The World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)We Are The World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)"We Are The World 25 for Haiti " is a massively collaborative charity song and music video produced by Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa Lavie and posted to the YouTube video sharing website to raise money for victims of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake."We Are The World 25 for Haiti " is the...
is a massively collaborativeCollaborationCollaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...
charityCharity recordA charity record is a release of a song for a specific charitable cause. Some of the earliest charity records came from the Music for UNICEF Concert, with ABBA's Chiquitita and the Bee Gees' Too Much Heaven among them released as singles, with all the royalties going to UNICEF...
song and music video produced by CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
singer-songwriterSinger-songwriterSinger-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Lisa LavieLisa LavieLisa Lavie is a Canadian singer and songwriter originally from LaSalle, Québec, Canada.Lavie is known for using the Internet to independently promote her own music and concerts...
and posted to the YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
video sharing website to raise money for victims of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake2010 Haiti earthquakeThe 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...
. The video was the creation of a collaborationCollaborationCollaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...
of 57 unsignedUnsigned artistThe term "unsigned artist" or "independent artist" is used in the music industry as a marketing technique.-History and current scene:Many unsigned artists used to sell their music and music-related merchandise without the financial support of a record label, while often seeking a recording contract...
or independentIndependent record labelAn independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
YouTube musicians geographically distributed around the world. The Tokyo Times referred to J Rice's subsequently produced "We Pray for You" video, involving largely the same participants as were in Lavie's video, as an example of a trend to use crowdsourcingCrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
for charitableCharity recordA charity record is a release of a song for a specific charitable cause. Some of the earliest charity records came from the Music for UNICEF Concert, with ABBA's Chiquitita and the Bee Gees' Too Much Heaven among them released as singles, with all the royalties going to UNICEF...
purposes.
- WikipediaWikipediaWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
is often cited as a successful example of crowdsourcing, despite objections by co-founder Jimmy WalesJimmy WalesJimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
to the term.
- WishabiWishabiWishabi is a Canadian online shopping platform that is owned and maintained by the Wishabi corporation. Wishabi's mission is "to give Canadians the best tools to make informed shopping decisions"....
, a Canadian online shopping platform, recruits a community of deal hunters to crowdsource product offers available to Canadians. Participants are rewarded with monetary incentive proportional to their individual contribution divided by the total contribution of the community. Top participants upload about 1000 offers a month averaging a 80-90% accuracy rate.
- Worth1000Worth1000Worth1000 is an image manipulation and contest website. Worth1000 opened on January 1, 2002 and hosts over 340,000 unique images made in theme contests such as "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World", and "Stupid Protests". In mid-2003, Worth1000 began hosting similar competitions for...
is a community focused on creative contestsCompetitionCompetition is a contest between individuals, groups, animals, etc. for territory, a niche, or a location of resources. It arises whenever two and only two strive for a goal which cannot be shared. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. For...
, occasionally with financial incentives. Original contests invited members to submit manipulated images (typically using Photoshop) for specific themes, often of a comic nature. Now they have new contests regularly for photo effects (aka manipulated images), photography without effects, illustrations, writing and multimedia. While most contests are run by the website, anyone can apply to post a contest, and people seeking professional creative work like logo design are encouraged to add financial incentives to their requests for less playful creativity.
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- ZooppaZooppaZooppa is a global social network for creative talent that partners with companies to launch user-generated advertising campaigns. Inspired by the principles of crowdsourcing, Zooppa’s website hosts brand sponsored advertising competitions. In competition for cash prizes, members submit their...
is a global social network for creative talent that crowdsources advertising. Founded in 2007, Zooppa partners with companies to launch brand sponsored advertising contests. In competition for cash prizes, members submit their original ads in response to a company's creative brief. Grand prize winners are selected by the brands, and additional awards are given to creators as determined by vote of the Zooppa community and selection by the Zooppa staff. As of May 2010, more than 70 brands have launched crowdsourced advertising campaigns on Zooppa's platform including GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, NikeNike, Inc.Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
, Hershey’s, General MillsGeneral MillsGeneral Mills, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation, primarily concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets many well-known brands, such as Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totinos, Jeno's, Pillsbury, Green...
, MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, NBC UniversalNBC UniversalNBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
, and Mini Cooper.