crowdsourcing

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Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd +‎ sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing.

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crowdsourcing (countable and uncountable, plural crowdsourcings)

  1. The delegation of a task to a large diffuse group in order to introduce new or more developed skill sets and improve efficiency. There is usually no substantial monetary compensation involved.
    Synonym: open outsourcing
    • 2006 June, Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”, in Wired[1], archived from the original on 2006-07-21:
      P&G is one of InnoCentive’s earliest and best customers, but the company works with other crowdsourcing networks as well.
    • 2007 January, Jessi Hempel, “Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd”, in Business Week:
      While not a new phenomenon, crowdsourcing is really growing as a business trend.
    • 2007 July, Twisted, comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet):
      Costs can be reduced by crowdsourcing more content.

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crowdsourcing

  1. present participle and gerund of crowdsource