open outsourcing

English

Noun

open outsourcing (uncountable)

1. Crowdsourcing.
   • 2017, Myriam Servières et al., “Mobile Devices and Urban Ambiances:”, in Barbara E.A. Piga, Rossella Salerno, editors, Urban Design and Representation: A Multidisciplinary and Multisensory Approach, Springer, page 215:

     Reporting mobile apps like FixMaVille use an open outsourcing strategy, which means that a citizen can contribute to describe a located situation for further urban services interventions. However, in this case, the interaction between the citizen and the city is limited to a simple report.

   • 2020, A. Moreira da Silva, “Sustainability through design creativity”, in Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy, Taylor and Francis, page 220:

     Nowadays Burel Factory manufactures burel fabrics, with new weavers, carders and dressmakers. The majority of the workers in the factory are from this region and holders of the ancestral knowledge in the production of the burel fabric.
     The artisans work in partnership with several designers integrated into the project, in an open outsourcing system, producing creative burel products both for home and clothing.

   • 2021, María Aránzazu de las Heras García, “AI Implications for the Future of Work”, in Ana Landeta Echeberria, editor, Artificial Intelligence for Business: Innovation, Tools and Practices, Springer, page 98:

     The digital transformation has revolutionised the way in which we work, permitting the appearance of new ways of organising work and production, such as teleworking, the delocation of functions, cross-border outsourcing and subcontracting, worldwide supply chains, the open outsourcing of tasks based on the Internet or crowdworking, among others.