An Introduction to Crowdsourcing

K.V.N. Rajesh*, K.V.N. Ramesh**
* Head of the Department, Department of Information Technology, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
** Project Manager, Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Periodicity:March - May'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.4.2.3386

Abstract

Crowdsourcing, refers to process of solving large scale and complex problems by crowd. It is one of the significant recent trend in internet and the mobile market that focuses on human-powered solving of large scale problems in diverse domains. The quality-control approaches of crowdsourcing systems mentioned in this paper will enhance the quality of the project developed by crowd. This paper describes crowdsourcing, basic elements in crowdsourcing, quality control in crowdsourcing, advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing, Some of the crowdsourcing projects such as Amazon Mechanical Trunk, Threadless and Wikipedia have been discussed.

Keywords

Crowdsourcing, Elements in Crowdsourcing, Quality Control in Crowdsourcing

How to Cite this Article?

Rajesh. K. V. N and Ramesh. K. V. N (2015). An Introduction to Crowdsourcing. i-manager’s Journal on Information Technology, 4(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.4.2.3386

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