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Crowdsourcing: A Definition

  • I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing:

    The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing 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.

    The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

The Rise of Crowdsourcing

  • Read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine.
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February 08, 2007

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Nox Dineen

Your Technorati link is broken.

I'd love to see a comparative report, drafted by somebody who doesn't speak German, but used free Internet translation tools to tackle the German sites. It would be an interesting look at degrees of efficiency in crowdsourcing.

Internet Economics

OK, this is just specualation, but I guess that many Germans are extraordinary idealistic about creating something in common (wasn't Karl Marx from Germany?).

Additionaly they are keen of saving costs. ALDI, LIDL etc. are German business models. So the Germans love the no-cost model of Open Source as well.

When you look at the numbers you will see that there ar so many OS developers coming from Germany... The attitude to Open Source and crowdsourcing is extraordinary high I think. Of course this is only my personal impression because I cannot compare attitudes. If you take the TYPO3 Content Management Application... It's so popular in Germany. Even major entreprises ride on the free model.

I think what the German market is waiting for would be a crowdsourcing model for small engineer companies. I could imagine something with rapid prototyping... So come here to discuss your brilliant ideas with the new Fischers, Daimlers and others... ;-)

Kai

I agree with the previous comment: Germans are idealistic about creating something in common. Monetary rewards and intellectual rights are often not as important as they are in the U.S.

And as stereotypical as it may sound: Many Germans are perfectionists and it really bothers them if something isn't perfect and they are quit willing to offer free advice to make it perfect. (For example: Germans usually tell a waiter in a restaurant if and why a meal isn't completely up to their expectations, while the average American probably wouldn't say anything.)

Crowdsourcing provides an opportunity to collaborate in order to bring something to perfection. I'm not surprised that Germans embrace this concept.

Jeff Howe

Thanks for the alert, Nox. I'll check it out. Thanks Kai and, uh, Internet Economics for interesting thoughts. I hadn't really considered that some cultures would be inherently more welcoming to the crowdsourcing idea, but it makes sense. In this light, I'm curious about whether crowdsourcing models have taken root in Scandinavia, a region with a long tradition in community involvement as well as idealistic government. There isn't much in the blogosphere in Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, but it's perfectly possible (likely even) that such applications wouldn't go under the name crowdsourcing there. Anyone have any knowledge on this front?

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It's so popular in Germany. Even major entreprises ride on the free model.

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I agree with the previous comment: Germans are idealistic about creating something in common. Monetary rewards and intellectual rights are often not as important as they are in the U.S.

And as stereotypical as it may sound: Many Germans are perfectionists and it really bothers them if something isn't perfect and they are quit willing to offer free advice to make it perfect. (For example: Germans usually tell a waiter in a restaurant if and why a meal isn't completely up to their expectations, while the average American probably wouldn't say anything.)

Crowdsourcing provides an opportunity to collaborate in order to bring something to perfection. I'm not surprised that Germans embrace this concept.

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