Crowdsourcing

The crowdsourcing is a Néologisme conceived in 2006 per Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, writers with the Wired magazine. Copied on the Outsourcing, which consists in making realize in Sous-traitance, therefore externaliser of the tasks which are not fundamental trade of the company, the crowdsourcing consists in using the creativity, the intelligence and the know-how of a great number of Internaute S, and this, with the lower costs. The literal translation of crowdsourcing is “provisioning by crowd”, but does not reflect the true contents of the term.

Micropaiement

The representative example quoted by Jeff Howe is that of Claudia Menashe seeking some photographs to illustrate the Avian flu on a stand during an exposure of the National Health Museum (National museum of health) of Washington. It enters into negotiation, knowing its weak budget, with a professional photograph, Mark Harmel, which is ready to concede to him at a price that he regards as twice weaker than his usual tariffs, 4 photographs for 600 $.

At this point in time Claudia Menashe discovers on iStockphoto documents having the characteristics which she seeks. She announces in Mark Harmel that she found her happiness, being gotten via iStockphoto, 56 images with approximately 1 $ part. The history finishes in the following way: the professional photograph Mark Harmel understood that it could not fight against a crowd of amateurs better and better equipped (camera with less than 1000 $, software of image processing, personal computer and Internet) agree to be remunerated of 1 $ to 5 $ per photograph. He now concentrates his activity on work with the order.

This principle of the Micropaiement makes it possible the Web sites to be remunerated and many contributors to be made pocket money, or a complement of incomes, this trade escaping for the moment from the agents from tax department.

Voluntary help and crowdsourcing

One can bring the crowdsourcing closer to the concept of pronétariat, another neologism of the same field, suggested by Joel de Rosnay in 2005. The crowdsourcing can constitute one of the gainful employments, even if it is marginal, of the “pronétaire”. If the Bénévolat can be summarized upon the voluntary engagement at a non-profit making company, works social or caritative, one cannot regard it as synonym of crowdsourcing, insofar as business firms are at the origin of the creation of the concept.

Examples of crowdsourcing

  • Wikipédia : the Wikipedia encyclopedia is quoted like an example of crowdsourcing. However, if it is an actress of the crowdsourcing, like information source, an encyclopedia with the Contenu free as Wikipedia does not make really it even crowdsourcing as long as it does not remunerate her contributors, called user S and does not make trade of its contents.
  • iStockphoto: to see higher in the Micropaiement paragraph. There exists many image data bases functioning on the same principle.
  • Innocentive, purse of knowing about Internet, start-up financed by Eli Lilly , American pharmaceutical large company, on the initiative of its former vice-president Alph Bingham, end of the year 1990. The idea was to call upon the thousands of researchers accessible by the Web, in order to develop new drugs intended to fill the loss of revenue caused by the end of the property rights of the patent on the Prozac. As the company in its banner page indicates it, “InnoCentive organizes the meeting of high level scientists with the challenges of development with which the large companies throughout the world are confronted, for remunerations being able to reach $100 000 USD”. It is not here any more about micropaiement in the absolute, Innocentive touching approximately 50% of the remunerations granted the clever contributors, but brought back to the budgets of research and development of the great groups, it is rather comparable with the photographic documents.
  • Google ImageLabeler: a play suggested by Google allowing to define words for a series of images drawn randomly. In 90 seconds, Google puts to you in bond with a partner anomyme and the two people must find a word common defining the image.
  • Bananask.com: Exploiting the words " Banana" and " Ask" , Bananask.com is at the base a site of remunerated answers questions, but seems to evolve to questions of any kind including of the services: energy of the translations of text while passing by the final improvement of image until very the realization of the duties of the lazy students. The private individual thus can crowdsourcer his task by posting it on this site.

Neologism are equivalent

  • Blogsourcing , which specifies that the creation of contents, projects or the development of ideas are done by the use of a Blog like platform of collaborative creation.

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