Crowdsourcing

The term "crowdsourcing" describes an online business model that utilizes people’s creativity to solve complex problems. Over the past decade, research in crowdsourcing has detected great potential in harnessing crowd intelligence for various purposes, including data collection, making scientific discoveries, and disaster recovery. With crowdsourcing platforms being so massively in use in both commercial and research settings, this field of study also directly impacts the employment and industry realms.