Crowd-sourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. Ok, maybe this makes sense to the ITEC kids, but call me incompetent cause I was lost.
After some more reading, I noticed that crowd-sourcing is all around us. Take a look at www.wikipedia.com and www.urbandictionary.com These are great examples truly show us how important crowd-sourcing has become. Wikipedia has become an online enclypodia that millions of users can contribute as well as urban dictionary. This is a great idea. Compolations of online cookbooks would be anoter idea that one of my friends is actually working on.
So go ahead and contribute.
3 comments:
Wow, I didn't know about "urbandictionary". I think it is kind of useful web site to me. (That's because I am not good at English.) By running this site, however, how many people who spend their precious time? Isn't it kind of exploit their customer?
I don't think that it exploits the customer because they submit their posts and additions voluntarily. These people who upload definitions to urban-dictionaty are clearly aware that they are expecting a pay out at the end of the day for their effort.
I never thought about students using that website to help them with their English.
I'm amazed after going through the urban dictionary. I'm guessing this is where a certain politician got the "putting the lipstick on a pig" phrase from because I saw it myself. Anyway, crowd sourcing is emerging with lots of results. I only wish organizations/companies in developing countries like Nigeria could incorporate such concepts. That would be the way forward.
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