“Crowdsourcing is a neologistic compound of "crowd" and "outsourcing" for the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (, or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data.The term has become popular with businesses, authors, and journalists as shorthand for the trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies to achieve business goals. However, both the term and its underlying business models have attracted controversy and criticisms” - Wikipedia
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